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GOAL!! A shot from ALARIO flew through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted Chelsea 'keeper. (1-0 Birmingham City)
PETAGNA shot wide.
JOAN JORDÁN made space on the right and pulled the ball to JEONG who rasped the ball over.
A penalty box scramble resulted in KING cracking the ball wide.
12¹A deadly shot from KING was stopped by RUSHWORTH.
22¹A fine ball from GALENO on the left bobbled toward ARAMBARRI who sliced his shot just wide.
28¹A good effort from ALARIO scraped the upright.
31¹GALENO touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
31¹A strike from JEONG held no problem for CRAGNO.
35¹RUSHWORTH did well to hold onto a wicked shot from ARAMBARRI.
43¹The 'keeper saved a swerving shot from PETAGNA.
44¹PETAGNA brought the ball round JOAN JORDÁN and poked a tame shot into the crowd.
45¹ALARIO's shot was well held by CRAGNO.
GOAL!! Showing lots of skill MAKSIMOVIC dribbled past MYKOLENKO and tapped the ball past the 'keeper. (2-0 Birmingham City)
MYKOLENKO was put clear by CAIRNEY and he turned the Birmingham City 'keeper but glanced his shot over the bar.
A brilliant strike from GALENO was dealt with by a good parry from the Birmingham City 'keeper.
10²JOAN JORDÁN fired a right foot shot over from twenty-five yards out.
12²A shot from ZAPPACOSTA was smothered by RUSHWORTH.
14²The Birmingham City 'keeper was able to palm clear a weak header from PETAGNA.
16²A cross from GALENO left ZAPPACOSTA in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
31²MAKSIMOVIC knocked the ball to JEONG who turned it wide.
41²A thirty yard shot from PAREJO caused the 'keeper no problem.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 22
Home league form: LWOW
Overall league form: XLWOLWXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Carl RUSHWORTH1Alessio CRAGNO
Enrico DEL PRATO2Davide ZAPPACOSTA
ISCO3Vitaliy MYKOLENKO
Nemanja MAKSIMOVIC4Daniel PAREJO(c)
Michael KEANE5Íñigo MARTÍNEZ
Kevin LONG6Filip HELANDER
JEONG Sang-bin7Tom CAIRNEY
(c)PEDRO Eliezer8Wenderson GALENO
(p)Lucas ALARIO9Andrea PETAGNA(p)
(f)JOAN JORDÁN Moreno10Mauro ARAMBARRI(f)
Todd CANTWELL11Joshua KING
Manager
Diego DEMME  12  Ondrej DUDA
Luigi SEPE  13  Fredrik OPPEGÅRD
Ryan ANDREWS  14  Cheick KEITA
Allan TCHAPTCHET  15  Donny VAN DE BEEK
IKER LOSADA Aragunde  16  IRFAN CAN Kahveci
 
Chelsea
 
League position: 19
Away league form: LLLO
Overall league form: WLLLWLWO
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 2 Chelsea 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 31,382, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Darren Drysdale 7½)

Alario 1¹, Maksimovic 0²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
  
52
47
06
59
58
1017
38
40%60%
Man of the match: Davide Zappacosta