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1¹ DANI OLMO snapped at a simple chance. 4¹ An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of LENO by LO CELSO. 6¹ MORATA fired a right foot shot wide from twenty yards out. 10¹ The 'keeper managed to palm clear a wicked effort. 14¹ GOAL!! A great dribble from WILLIAMS gave COBURN space on the left and AJORQUE rattled in his accurate pass. (1-0 Birmingham City) 18¹ ISCO shot over. 21¹ GOAL!! A quick-witted RICHARLISON pounced on a loose ball on the edge of the area and made no mistake. (1-1) 24¹ ISCO raced past CARRASCO but slammed the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 28¹ LO CELSO chipped the ball to AJORQUE who flicked it just beyond the far post. 32¹ DEL PRATO stabbed a simple chance past the righthand post. 37¹ A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled RICHARLISON to hit an effort over the bar. 40¹ GOAL!! A strike from MORATA which the Birmingham City 'keeper managed to block seemed to have crossed the line and RUI CARLOS gave the goal. (2-1 Crewe Alexandra) 2² RICHARLISON dribbled away from LO CELSO and rifled a tame shot well wide. 8² A pin-point pass found SMITH ROWE and his left foot shot flew narrowly over. 14² MILINKOVIC-SAVIC beat LO CELSO and hit the ball to SMITH ROWE who toe-poked his effort wide. 17² ISCO was put clear by JEONG and he dummied the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper but struck his shot over the bar. 19² A thirty yard drive from AJORQUE caused the 'keeper little difficulty. 20² RICHARLISON kicked the ball wide of the righthand post from the edge of the box. 21² GOAL!! A cross from the right was nodded down by SMITH ROWE for CARRASCO to score. (3-1 Crewe Alexandra) 22² AJORQUE ran onto a wonderful ball from ISCO but blasted his shot wide of the goal. 25² A useful ball from MILINKOVIC-SAVIC on the right fell to HAKIMI who sliced his effort wide. 34² The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from LO CELSO dropped just wide. 35² A free-kick from RICHARLISON flew inches over. 36² LO CELSO headed inches wide. 42² A poor shot from COBURN trickled agonisingly wide. 44² COBURN made space on the right and knocked the ball to AJORQUE who touched the ball wide.

Crewe Alexandra   League position: 14 Home league form: WX-- Overall league form: WLXX---- Formation: 3-5-2

Line-ups Bernd LENO 7  1 6½ Carl RUSHWORTH Stefan DE VRIJ 7½ 2 6½ Enrico DEL PRATO (c)Granit XHAKA 8  3 7  Dylan WILLIAMS RICHARLISON de Andrade 7  4 8  PEDRO Eliezer(c) Achraf HAKIMI 7½ 5 6½ Michael KEANE Raphaël GUERREIRO 8  6 6  Kevin LONG (f)Álvaro MORATA 7½ 7 7  JEONG Sang-bin Sergej MILINKOVIC-SAVIC 8  8 6½ ISCO (p)DANI OLMO 7  9 6  Ludovic AJORQUE(p) Yannick CARRASCO 7½ 10 7  Giovani LO CELSO(f) Emile SMITH ROWE 7  11 5½ Josh COBURN Beck Nigel Manager Arkadiusz MILIK    12    Maksim PASKOTSI Timo HORN    13    Luigi SEPE Joe WILLOCK    14    Nemanja MAKSIMOVIC WILLIAM Silva CARVALHO    15    Allan TCHAPTCHET RAFA    16    Ryan ANDREWS

Birmingham City   League position: 21 Away league form: L--- Overall league form: LWLL---- Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Crewe Alexandra 3 Birmingham City 1 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 48,363, Stadium: Gresty Road, Referee: Rui Carlos Madureira 7½) Richarlison 21¹, Morata 40¹, Carrasco 21² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Ajorque 14¹             0 5 7 8 15 2 3 5 10 8 13 13 0 4 56% 44% ¶ Man of the match: Raphaël Guerreiro ¶