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SCOTT BIDS TO SHOOT BLUES OUT OF DANGER

KARANKA’S BIRMINGHAM SEARCH FOR RIGHT FORMULA
By John Wragg

HUNGRY FOR GOALS: Birmingham City striker Scott Hogan
PICTURE: PA Images

THERE’S not a tablet for it or a prescription, but Scott Hogan is ready to come out of another of his goal depressions.
Birmingham manager Aitor Karanka is desperate for that to happen.
Karanka is in trouble. His defensive-minded football will be accepted only if his team is winning. But Birmingham aren’t winning. To misquote a Christmas song -“It’s looking a lot like relegation.” In three of the last four seaso...

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