Birmingham City are set to host Brentford at the St. Andrew’s Stadium on Saturday in their opening EFL Championship fixture and the Blues will be aiming for a win on home soil. Birmingham are without defeat in their last six opening Championship home games (W3, D3). Despite Birmingham City being the 15/4 outsiders, in 13 previous encounters between the two sides, Birmingham City hold the clear advantage. They have won six games, lost three and drawn four. Their most recent match ended in a 1-1 draw. Brentford have been backed into the 4/5 favourites from Even money while the draw is 12/5. Using BoyleSports’ Opta stats, Birmingham are 13/10 to have the first shot on goal and 7/5 for it to be on target. Winger Jeremie Bela is one of Birmingham’s star players and he is 21/20 to have Over 0.5 shots on target, while Over 1.5 shots is 11/2. The French man is 4/9 to have Over 0.5 shots outside the box. Birmingham have only lost one of their last 18 league season openers played on home so...