Birmingham manager Lee Clark wants to adapt the team's formation to allow him to play with two strikers this season reports The Birmingham Mail.

Last season a 4-2-3-1 formation was mostly used, however after strengthening both the defence and the strike force the Blues boss is keen to play a 4-4-2 formation this season.

4-4-2 was rarely used during the last campaign and when Clark did decide to use it as a tactic, Birmingham never won a game in which they used that formation from the start. However it was a favoured formation when the team was chasing a game.

In a behind closed doors friendly on Saturday, 4-4-2 was used for parts of it with Clayton Donaldson and Wes Thomas paired together up front and this could be the partnership seen on a more regular basis during the season.

Speaking about the new formation Clark said: “We looked at that Saturday”

“We had both systems on view, which I was going to do at Mansfield. I said last week I was looking to play two strikers because that’s something I want to do, to get strikers on the pitch, play with two, certainly in home games, where you want to be on the front foot.”