Birmingham have scored 12 goals in their last three home games
Watford have scored nine times in their last five games
Recommended bet: Over 2.5 goals
Both Birmingham and Watford will have ambitions of climbing onto the coattails of the play-off places in the Championship as they get set for a Monday night showdown in the Midlands.
Blues have scored four goals in each of their last three at St Andrew's, while the Hornets have netted in each of their last five second-tier games and are unbeaten in that sequence.
Just one point splits the sides managed by Chris Davies and Javi Gracia ahead of this tussle, which looks likely to be an entertaining affair.
Team news
The home side should have defender Phil Neumann available after he took a knock in the draw with West Brom, but midfielder Willum Willumsson has suffered a setback in his recovery and this game will come too soon for him.
Ethan Laird, Lee Buchanan and Scott Wright are all absent and Tomoki Iwata serves a suspension.
Visiting Watford remain without Kwadwo Baah, Rocco Vata, Jack Grieves, Caleb Wiley and Egil Selvik but have no fresh worries after their draw at home against Preston.
Winger Giorgi Chakvetadze returned as a sub in that contest and should accumulate some more game time now having missed the opening months of the season.
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The stats
Birmingham have scored four goals in each of their last three home games.
The Blues have won five of eight games at home this season (D2, L1).
Watford have just one away success in the Championship (D3, L4) – a joint-lowest points tally on the road.
Birmingham's last five home games have each featured at least four goals.
Watford have won six of their last seven matches against Birmingham in all competitions, Blues' most recent win coming in a November 2014 Championship clash.
Birmingham will go seventh with a win, while Watford would rise to eighth if they can double their tally of wins on the road.
Prediction
Birmingham are starting to find their groove in the Championship after last season's record-breaking League One champions took some time to adapt.
Manager Davies admitted as much in the run-up to this game, suggesting: "Some players were finding their feet, their own confidence in their levels, some of them had never played in the Championship. But I look at some of those same players now, I see a belief in them."
That growing confidence sees the Blues just 4/7 with LiveScore Bet to make it four home wins on the bounce.
Watford's record on the road is poor, too, but the Hornets have lost just twice in eight games since Gracia returned to the dugout.
Birmingham's record in this fixture hasn't been great, with six defeats and a draw in the last seven meetings.
They deserve to be favourites this time but going for goals is more appealing. The hosts have scored four times in each of their last three at St Andrew's, with Birmingham's last five home games featuring at least four goals each.
Watford have scored in five straight Championship games and at least three goals looks the best value here.
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