Stevenage v Birmingham City - EFL Trophy 2024/25 Pre-Match Analysis; Stats, Line Ups
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- It's Quarter Final time in the EFL Vertu Trophy and Birmingham City travel to Stevenage hoping to take another step closer to Wembley. Stevenage will be new opposition for Blues this season as the League Game fixture scheduled earlier in the was postponed because of the International break. Stevenage come into the game in good league form, winning their last three games which has propelled them up to 11th in the EFL League One table and just four points away from the final play off place. With Wembley getting closer it will be interesting to see the team selection from both teams and whether either team will go for it and pick a stronger team than in previous rounds.
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Good to meet you both last Saturday- Eliot
@ nice meeting you as well! KRO!
Tough game to call. I not sure how much I care about it to be honest. As a man who went to Wembley many years ago when we beat Tranmere 3-2 it was a fantastic day out so I get many fans would love to go to Wembley to watch Blues. I wonder if Davies may spring a few surprises with team selection in that he may pick some of the better players in key positions. Either way Stevenage will be a tough nut to crack they are playing really well. I don't have a good feeling about the outcome so I will refrain from predictions (I am just a coward really!) Will be watching from Michigan USA hoping I can pick the game up from somewhere on the Internet!
Don't be like the villa and live in the past 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's all about the here and the now and creating our own new and modern history. For the generations of fans who haven't been to Wembley and haven't had the wonderful experience that you had albeit many years ago and in the old Wembley.
This may well be the last time that we play in this competition (hopefully) so why not go out and try and win it and all us Blue Noses take over Wembley and enjoy a fantastic (winning) day out after years and years of awful ownership and rubbish times.
Tom Wagner at Wembley is a sight that I really want to see, plus all of us Bluenoses making new memories.
You could even get yourself over here if you can get a ticket 😁
KRO 💙
Thank you very much for your comment Neil which is greatly appreciated. I know that the league id the priority but I’d also love a trophy to Wembley! KRO!
@ You cannot help it Rich when you reach my age. My best memories are back in the early 70's when we had an excellent team and played really good attacking football!
@neilpountney9414 Get yourself over here Neil. We need to get you a ticket 😁
My Dad is slightly older than you and so I'm well versed in the good old days. Football isn't like it was. It's not the same game in so many ways. So I totally get and understand where you're coming from and your point of view.
I guess it's a case of just embracing the here and the now as much as we can.
KRO 💙
Let's go and win this cup. If there's a trophy up for grabs, you should always go to try and win it
Thank you very much for your comment Nick which is greatly appreciated. Totally agree, let’s go for it. KRO!
Marc Leonard superb pass to Jay. It reminded me of the through the middle pass Fulham made to Jay, when he scored against us earlier in the season in Carabao Cup.
Thank you very much for your comment Geoff which is greatly appreciated. It really was a good through ball! KRO!
Interesting discussion as usual..If (big if) i was in CD position i would be looking 2 games ahead here i.e Cambridge on 11/2/25 and thinking what will likely be 11 for that game,...a must win in the grand scheme, then splitting those players across this game and Newcastle if needed. Players who need game time though and likley to play both cup games Peacock Farrell, Samstped, Hanley, Dowell, and Beilik, and the new left back if eligible? I suspect the state of the pitch may influence, if bumpy and bobbly then the likes of Juke will come into play. Also i believe in both games he will have 9 subs to choose from, so our bench should be strong if needed. This will be tough, prior games this season suggest that, but we should have enough to see this through b4 penalties are needed. The way i look at 'Promotion is the cake and winning it is the icing on it , progression in this cup and winning it is the cherry on top...i like cake and prefer it with icing but in the grand scheme of things if i get the cherry great, if i dont well so be it. KRO
Thank you very much for your comment Steve which is greatly appreciated. Chris Davies team selection for the cup games will be very interesting for sure. I think he will use the squad again and save our best starting 11 for Newcastle. KRO!
2 nil blues - Newcastle game is an exciting one however Wembley has to be the goal and this is the best chance - good luck to Yokohama KRO 👍
Thank you very much for your comment Nigel which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
Just had a quick look on Wikipedia. Last season's semi-finals were both one legged. Intriguingly both games were won by the away teams ... Peterborough & Wycombe.
Keep up the good work
KRO 💙
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. Thank you for the clarification. KRO!
to clarify - following copied from efl trophy 24/25 handbook (100% one leg only)
Semi Finals.
(a) The four winners from the quarter-finals will contest the semi-finals.
(b) Semi-final pairings are determined by means of an unseeded draw with
no regionalisation.
(c) The Club drawn first is the Home Club.
(d) Matches will be played by way of only one leg and be of ninety minutes
duration with no extra time
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for the clarification as well Mikey! KRO!
Don't worry about making mistakes Matt..
Like the saying says, the man who never made a mistake, threw a bus at it 😅
KRO
Thank you very much for your comment Paul which is greatly appreciated. That’s funny! KRO!
Peacock-Farrell, Sampstead, Beilek, Hanley. Cochrane, TGH, Leonard, Dowell. May, Dykes, Wright
Thank you very much for your comment Steve which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
Very informative discussion KRO
Thank you very much for your comment Gary which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
Im so sad Yokoyama has gone, i really rated him.
As regarding Stevenage, very tough game but we have the strenght to beat them, so if we win Im chuffed, but if we lose then the league is more important, id welcome a loss if it guaranteed us 6pts in the league against them lol.
Im still confident so going 2.0 bcfc win and proceed to the next round.
Love from John O Groats, keep up the podcasts guys.
Thank you very much for your comment Kim which is greatly appreciated. Yes good luck to Yokoyama. I think that the loan might help his development as he needs more first team football. Hopefully we win tonight and get one step closer to Wembley. KRO!
Matt..... nailed it!!
KRO 💙
Thank you for your comment Richard. Yes, he certainly did! He has just text me to remind me! Cheeky fella but I love him to bits! xxxx
@BCFCRoyalBlue 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love that 💙
Just one game away from Wembley!!!
KRO 💙
@@RICHP1979 yes and I hope we finally get a home draw in this competition. KRO!
@BCFCRoyalBlue 🤞🤞 KRO 💙
Lyrics change.....
We've got super Chrissy Davies. He knows exactly what we need.
Klarer at the back. Stanno in attack. Blues are going to the Premier League.
KRO 💙
Stevenage scoring for free in the league at the minute and us struggling to score. Could be in for a shock here.
Thank you very much for your comment Rich which is greatly appreciated. I think we have more than enough to win this game but as we pointed out in the podcast, this will not be easy. KRO!
@@RICHL74 they may be free scoring but that was not against our mean defence,but it matters how strong we go for it
They’re tough to break down at home too.
So: hard to score past, finding the back of the net easily. A concoction of all the things we struggle with…I’m going to hold my breath
Just go for it . If we win great if we lose fine promotion is the one we want . If we do win hopefully get a home draw
Thank you very much for your comment Dean which is greatly appreciated. My thoughts exactly! KRO!
Think it wil be tough on our way soon but i think we will do it need a trip to wembley K.R.O 1:17
Thank you very much for your comment Carol which is greatly appreciated. A trip to Wembley would be fantastic! KRO!
Perhaps it wasn’t that tough after all 😂
Cmon BLUES 💙💙💙💙
Unfortunate that Yokoyama has gone, so wont feature tonight. I really liked what I sore and he offered something different. I think it’s is a mistake letting him go and doubt we’ll see him in a blues shirt again. Creativity has been an issue at times this season, as has availability of wingers due to injury. I trust Davies and results will be how he is judged, but I’m not sure about our current strategy for developing young players. KRO
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. Yokoyama is a decent player but he is also young. He will definitely be a decent player in the future but sending him out on loan should give him more experience. KRO!
Actually I view this more a a positive than negative. It is obvious he was not going to be playing much if any first team football and he needs as all players do to to be playing. The under 21's is not for him so loaning him out was good option. I have no doubt he will be in the main squad next season if he develops as expected.
It's definitely one leg in the semi final trust me
Thank you very much for your comment Adam which is greatly appreciated and thank you for the clarification. KRO!
Odd one this, before the draw I would have thought a simple game, or as Neo said in Matrix Resurrections -
Neo: [looking at a pigeon taking off and flying away] It looks easy enough...
But now not so sure, think wellhave to throw some of our big guns at it...
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. Stevenage are a decent team at League One level and as we showed in the podcast they tend to do well against the better teams. Our team selection will be interesting. KRO!
Now see that Yokoyama gone out on loan, so more chaos with team selection - a bit of a concern that he and Donovan can't find a place in our current team make up
🧢 🔵 👃 😊 YES GARY AND MATT HAPPY TIMES STEVENAGE 1 BIRMINGHAM CITY 2.. CUP MATCH I HOPE TO WIN 🙏✊️ 🧢 KRO.
Thank you very much for your comment Paul which is greatly appreciated. Cone on you Blues!! KRO!
I think to not get the blues fans to Wembley would be a travesty, when is the next time we will get such a good chance to go and win a cup. Don't forget they beat villa a few years ago in the cup as well. Think we are going to need to show a lot more fight than the last game to win but as we seen on Saturday we can do that. Lets get the bluenoses back down wembley way! KRO
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. A trip to Wembley would be fantastic! KRO!
I would prefer we play strong tonight in a cup we can win rather than on Saturday in a cup we can not KRO
Thank you very much for your comment Pauly which is greatly appreciated. The team selection will be very interesting. KRO!
Have a terrible feeling that we exit the trophy tonight. You’re both right though, low scoring, very nervy. I’ll pop back to this comment after the game to eat crow hopefully. KRO
Thank you very much for your comment Michael which is greatly appreciated. Hopefully you are wrong about this one however in any event I suspect it will be a close one. KRO!
@ I’m back. Eating my words. Delicious!!
Very interesting chaps. But what happens if we score early? Will Stevenage stay cagey or will they come out and attack us? They have to win to go on in the competition and to do that they will then have to score at least two goals - is this beyond them? I think if we score early we win by three clear goals as Stevenage are out of their comfort zone. PS you don't have to change many letters to turn "Stevenage" into "Stone Age". Maybe their home ground should be in Old Sarum?
Thank you very much for your comment Neil which is greatly appreciated. It should be an interesting one and an early goal for us would really help. They are very solid defensively and so are we so I'm not expecting lots of goals in this one. KRO!
I would absolutely love to see us win the EFLT 🏆 as well as lifting the League One trophy 🏆 😁. What a brilliant season that would be!! Why not try and win both. Realistically and without being disrespectful to League One and League Two this is a competition that we have a really good chance of winning and hopefully we will win League One 🏆 too. League and Cup double please 😁
I think we should do our utmost to win every competition that we're in. Why not try and win the EFLT and another opportunity for us the fans to come together and hopefully enjoy a brilliant day out in London. I fully appreciate that there's a lot of football to be played for us to win the League and 3 games left in this competition.
With the greatest of respects I hope it's a competition that we won't ever play in again, but I still believe that the competition deserves the respect we should give and have given it as a League One Club.
Unless I'm very much mistaken the last time we played I'm this competition we won it, so we're actually defending our title as past holders 😂😂
With regards to the Quarter Final against Stevenage. This is another tough game, but i fancy us to win 2 - 0 or 2 - 1 with my only worry being to that scoreline is if BFF starts. He fills me with hardly any confidence at all, but i hope he proves me wrong as i appreciate that BFF is most likely to start.
It will be interesting to see what team Chris Davies picks with this game, Newcastle and then Cambridge and Charlton all important for different reasons.
Of course, I would love to see us win the FA Cup, but being realistic that's not a competition for now but one hopefully in the future is a competition that we will see the Blues win one day!
I just want to see us give a good account of ourselves on Saturday against Newcastle and you never know, we could cause an upset.
KRO 💙
Thank you very much for your comment Richard which is greatly appreciated. I would love us to do the EFL Trophy as well. A trip to Wembley would be amazing. KRO!
@BCFCRoyalBlue We'll have to do the Wembley dance. It doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Cardiff 🤣🤣 but we can't really complain, but no doubts some of our fans will still find something to have a moan about 🤣🤣 (disclaimer... this comment is just a bit of lighthearted fun and banter and not designed to cause any offence or to provoke anyone. I come in peace 😁)
KRO 💙
I hope Bailey peacock Farrell gets a shout out.. as I said many times the league is the paramount..KRO..
Thank you very much for your comment Michael which is greatly appreciated. I’m pretty sure BPF will start tonight. KRO!
Be a close game, one goal victory in it. Either of your scores will do for me! KRO
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. All of our games are close and like you I think this one will be as well. KRO!
Blues should have enough in the tank to get through. Does it go to penalties?
Thank you very much for your comment John which is greatly appreciated. If level after 90 minutes the match goes straight to penalties KRO!
I may have missed this on an earlier recording, but Matt, please put on the same shirt as Trevor's photo and wear a similar wig and give us a pose. UTB My G
Thank you very much for your comment Andy which is greatly appreciated. I will get Matt on it! KRO!
My favourite shirt that, love the penguin 💙
Personally I couldn’t care about this Mickey Mouse cup and want us to play full strength against Newcastle and actually for once give the fans a cup upset instead of pathetically going out before r5
Thank you very much for your comment Paul which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
Besides a day out for our younger fans, wouldnt bother me one iota if we went out of this cup, weve basically won it twice, id sooner keep our players fit, fresh and concentrate and getting our nose over the line to get up as soon as possible, all these cups are is distractions
I personally don't think it's just the younger fans that would enjoy a day out at Wembley. Well, that's in my humble and respectful opinion. I'm 45 and I'd absolutely love another day out at Wembley and lift the EFLT. Why not try and win both the league and the cup?
It's all about creating modern day history. For those younger fans now, to have the opportunity like you say would be great for them and for the majority of us that have been there before. I think it's important to try and win as many games and competitions as you can and we have the squad good enough and strong enough to win both the League and the EFLT and give a good account of ourselves against Newcastle in the FA Cup.
If you don't mind me asking. If Blues were to get to the final would you go?
KRO 💙
Thank you very much for your comment Keith which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
I am not bothered about this silly competition FA Cup more important.
A day out at Wembley is not to be scoffed at,with all the best will in the world we will not win the fa cup,so let’s win this one
Thank you very much for your comment John which is greatly appreciated. It’s a competition that we are entered into with a day out at Wembley if we get to the final so why not give it a go? KRO!
For a League one side that we are this is our FA Cup, whilst it doesnt carry all the hoo ha and TV coverage it still gives us a potential day at Wembley and a trophy (bear in mind we have won this twice b4) Whilst the league must be the priority, 50,000 blues fans on a sunny warm day in April, for League 1 & 2 clubs this is not a silly cup, its an opportunity
I went to the Leyland Daf cup many years ago and the league Cup win against Arsenal which was a great day. Unfortunately I can understand younger fans getting excited by the Vertu trophy as we have not had much to shout about for over a decade. However I still say it is a joke cup and we should be aiming higher.
If you don't mind me asking does that mean if Blues get to the final that you wouldn't go to Wembley?
I'm 45 and I'd absolutely love to win the EFLT 🏆 as well as lifting the League One trophy 🏆 😁.
I think we should do our utmost to win every competition that we're in. Why not try and win the EFLT and another opportunity for us the fans to come together and hopefully enjoy a brilliant day out in London.
With the greatest of respects I hope it's a competition that we won't ever play in again, but I still believe that the competition deserves the respect we should give and have given it as a League One Club.
Unless I'm very much mistaken the last time we played I'm this competition we won it, so we're actually defending our title as past holders 😂😂
Of course, I would love to see us win the FA Cup, but being realistic that's not a competition for now but one hopefully in the future is a competition that we will see the Blues win one day!
KRO 💙
Yokoyama has been sent on loan to Genk so whos your left midfield option now?
Thank you very much for your comment Jordan which is greatly appreciated. Hanson for me but Keshi, Jay or TGH can also play there KRO!
Yokoyama gone on loan to Genk surly would have been better staying and playing in a league 1 or 2 team 🤷♂
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. I think it will be good for him to get some competitive first team experience. KRO!
@ so do i but a team in this league would have been better and help his english, when he comes off the bench he scares defenders to death with his runs, it makes no sence to me but im not the manager, great pod cast as always ....
Think we Might come unstuck tonight, usually not negative but I’m saying 2-1 loss, hope I’m wrong
Thank you very much for your comment Paul which is greatly appreciated. I hope you are wrong as well! KRO!
I don't understand playing Luke Harris. We have lots of better options.
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
This will be fun team pick.
Thank you for your comment Chris which is greatly appreciated. I agree. I still think that Chris Davies will use the squad again and make a number of changes for this one. KRO?
This game is just as big as Newcastle Saturday imo full strength team for me
A 1 - 0 defeat I'm afraid
Thank you very much for your comment Frank which is greatly appreciated. KRO!
stevenage 1-2 Blues.... after extra time....KRO...
Thank you very much for your comment which is greatly appreciated. That will do. There is no extra time. If it is level at 90 minutes it goes straight to penalties. KRO!
@BCFCRoyalBlue ahhh ok, in that case im going for a very late winner.... KRO...