Birmingham City v Wrexham early injury news as 5 out and 6 doubts

The two sides meet for the first time in almost 18 years. A 4-1 win for Birmingham in the Carabao Cup in September 2006 was the last meeting between the two sides.

Both are now pushing to win promotion to the Championship, and are considered two of the favourites to battle it out for the three promotion spots this term. Wrexham are top of the league standings, whilst Birmingham are in fourth.

Blues last played on Tuesday, September 3, as their game against Exeter City was called off because of international call-ups. Wrexham played on and beat comfortably beat Shrewsbury Town, before hosting and beating Salford City in the EFL Trophy on Tuesday.

Birmingham City injury news

Alfie Chang and Josh Williams were not included in Blues’ squad list which was submitted to the EFL. Chang has been out for a year with a serious knee injury, and because he is over the age of 21, he has not been included. The same goes for Josh Williams, who spent last season out on loan at Cheltenham Town.

Luke Harris was withdrawn from international duty, and his status hasn’t yet been cleared up by his club or country. Lee Buchanan is due to return to training this month having suffered an injury during pre-season. Keshi Anderson was injured against Fulham in the Carabao Cup, and is also out for a few 'weeks'. Former captain Dion Sanderson is another player that hasn't played for a few weeks and is out with an injury.

Out: Alfie Chang, Dion Sanderson, Lee Buchanan, and Josh Williams. Doubt: Ethan Laird, and Luke Harris

Wrexham injury news

Midfielder Andy Cannon was missing against Shrewsbury and Salford City last week because of ‘fatigue’ The 28-year-old played a key part in their promotion last season with 11 goal contributions from 35 games.

Talisman Elliot Lee had to see a specialist for a recent injury. It was described as ‘nothing serious’ by manager Phil Parkinson, but Wrexham will hope they have one of their key players available. George Dobson was absent against Salford City because of a dead leg, and will be assessed closer to kick off.

Wrexham following their summer transfer business have two places left in their squad and will assess the fitness of Anthony Forde. Forde was not named in their squad list, but did play 68 minutes in midweek in the EFL Trophy.

“It’s the next league game coming up, we’ve got an extra couple of days to prepare for it, which I think is good for us because we’ve got one or two knocks,” said Parkinson to the official YouTube channel.

“Dobbo had a dead leg which meant he needed to be rested tonight, Elliot’s got a slight problem, so there’s three or four things where those extra two days, we’ll get a huge benefit from that and yeah, I don’t think the game needs any building up.

Out: Anthony Forde. Doubt: Andy Cannon, Gorge Dobsson, and Elliot Lee.