3. Lost seven of 10 Premier League games.
3. Lost seven of 10 Premier League games.
4. Kept only two clean sheets in the Premier League so far this season, but not managed one in 10 league games since holding Liverpool to a goalless draw at Anfield on 22 September.
5. Conceded five penalties in Premier League competition this season; more than any other club.
6. Lost 10 league games; only the bottom two have been beaten more often (Wigan 11, Derby 13).
7. Won one of the last six Premier League matches against north-west clubs; 3-2, home to Wigan on 27 October.
8. Lost four of the last five league games on the road, and won one in seven.
9. Lost the last three Premier League away matches against north-west clubs and not won in 15 visits to the region; drawn six and lost nine since a 0-1 victory at Liverpool on 6 November 2004.
10. Home to Middlesbrough on Boxing Day, and to Fulham three days later, before the New Year's Day fixture at Manchester United.
Nicolas ANELKA is Bolton's leading scorer with nine goals.
ANELKA is one shy of 100 goals for English clubs (Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City and Bolton).
The Frenchman is also the clubs' leading marksman in the Premier League with eight. Kevin NOLAN is the next nearest with three and six other players have one each.
Kevin DAVIES is a double shy of 100 club career goals (Chesterfield, Southampton, Blackburn, Millwall and Bolton).
Gary SPEED, the only player to have netted in every Premier League season, is a double shy of 100 career league goals (Leeds, Everton, Newcastle and Bolton).
NOLAN needs a hat-trick to total 50 club career goals.
Jussi JAASKALAINEN is the only player to have been on the field for every minute of every one of Bolton's Premier League matches this season.
ANELKA will be making his 50th Premier League appearance in a Bolton shirt.
Olivier KAPO and Cameron JEROME are Birmingham's joint top scorers with five Premier League goals each.
Stephen KELLY and Liam RIDGEWELL have played every minute of every one of Birmingham's Premier League games this season.
Garry O'CONNOR is a hat-trick shy of 50 goals in English and Scottish league football (Hibernian and Birmingham).
Suspended:-
Liam RIDGEWELL (one match)
Bolton have won a third of their Premier League clashes with Birmingham; three of nine.
The last three meetings between these clubs in this league have resulted in 1-0 victories for the team playing at home.
Home and away
League (inc PL): Bolton 43 wins, Birmingham 37, Draws 31
Prem: Bolton 3 wins, Birmingham 5, Draws 1
at Bolton only
League (inc PL): Bolton 31 wins, Birmingham 7, Draws 17
Prem: Bolton 2 wins, Birmingham 1, Draws 1
THIS SEASON'S REVERSE FIXTURE
Birmingham City 1-0 Bolton Wanderers
15 September 2007 - Ref: Phil Dowd
Birmingham scorers: Kapo 37
REFEREE
Chris Foy (St Helens, Merseyside)
Bolton Wanderers (16th) v
Birmingham City (15th)
Birmingham City will be without Liam Ridgewell for the trip to Bolton Wanderers with the central defender having to serve a one-match ban for incurring five bookings this season.
But midfielder Mehdi Nafti will be available again to face Garry Megson's side after serving a one-game ban against Reading last weekend for the same offence.
Former Bolton player Rahdi Jaidi is included in the squad while on-loan Arsenal defender Johan Djourou, who will return to the Emirates Stadium next month, has recovered from a pelvic problem.
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