Birmingham City will be desperate to secure their Championship status in the coming weeks.
The Blues are currently 21st in the table, only outside the relegation zone on goal difference.
That comes after a run of just one point in six games, since manager Tony Mowbray temporarily stepped back from his role for health reasons.
As a result, Birmingham City acted this week, by reappointing Gary Rowett as manager on an interim basis until the end of the season. That is a decision that has already been welcomed for various reasons.
With Rowett returning to St Andrew’s, there will be plenty for him to address in a short period of time.
Now, one emerging statistic suggests that if he can get his side firing in attack, it will buck a long running trend at the club.
Birmingham City in an ongoing struggle for goals
According to a table from FootballRates covering Premier League and Football League records, the Blues have had a long-running struggle for goals.
Birmingham City have averaged just 1.07 goals per game in the league, over the course of the last ten seasons.
That is the joint lowest for any club currently playing in the Football League, along with League Two side Grimsby Town.
Indeed, only four sides – Macclesfield Town, Hartlepool United, Yeovil Town and York City – have a lower average number of goals per game in the Football League during this period.
Stat a major concern for Blues
The fact that Birmingham City have struggled so much for goals over such a long period of time does feel rather worrying.
In the last ten season, there have been a long list of strikers to lead the line for the Blues. Only one of those, Che Adams – 22 in the 2018/19 season – has broken the 20-goal mark in the league.
Not only have they had a variety of strikers consistently struggle for goals for them, this has also happened under a range of managers.
Since the start of this period, Birmingham City have had no fewer than 12 permanent managers. That does seem to highlight the struggles that many have had to find a consistent source of goals for the club.
Interestingly, Rowett himself was one of them. As a result, his ability to grind out results, may well be vital for the Blues between now and the end of the season.
If he is unable to get Birmingham City to do that quickly, concerns about the threat of relegation to League One will only continue to grow.