Birmingham City boss Chris Davies says it has been an "eventful season" for Blues ahead of Saturday's visit of Sheffield United.
Davies' side, who overcame QPR 1-0 last time out, are 10th in the table and hope to have Tommy Doyle back in the squad to face the Blades.
"Kai Wagner won't be there, Tommy [Doyle] and August [Priske] have done some training so we're hoping to see how they react to that, but they've both had a bit of illness," he told BBC Radio WM.
"Tommy is looking likely to be in the squad and we'll see how August is, they were the main ones. We won't see Kai Wagner until after the international break."
Davies says "everything is easier" on the back of a victory and they need another three points to stay in touch with the top six.
"There's a much needed boost around the place and the players are looking forward to this next one," he said.
"It's a league like no other. You've obviously got the Premier League with the quality but the disparity between the top and bottom is quite big here.
"I said at the start of the season, I genuinely think that out of the 24 teams in the Championship, 20 of them think they're going to get promoted that year or think that they're going to have good chance or they've got the squad that can do it.
"There's a very small amount that are just there to survive and the means that there's not a lot between the teams."
He added: "That's why it's such an entertaining league, then the volume of games make the fatigue aspect important. Injuries, keeping players fit, there's so much that goes into it and it makes it for an interesting league with some really good players.
"It's a fascinating league. We've had a very eventful season it feels like to me, but I'm sure if you went around the other clubs they'd say exactly the same.
"I was told once that the most important thing with football is to have resilience and I think that is very important. You need to have resilience in this league because you're going to get a few punches and you've got to be able to bounce back to shape very quickly."
