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1¹ A free-kick from TROSSARD floated over the bar. 3¹ A great effort from HOLMES scraped the outside of the post. 5¹ SØRLOTH's shot was well saved by the 'keeper. 6¹ The referee books HOLMES for violent conduct against SØRLOTH. 6¹ A mix up in the Reading defence enabled TROSSARD to volley an effort just beyond the far post. 12¹ COLIN raced past HENDRICK but knocked the ball into the arms of the Reading 'keeper. 18¹ GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of TSIMIKAS who shot the ball past the helpless ETHERIDGE. (1-0 Reading) 23¹ A cross from FORREST left BACUNA in lots of space but he snapped at his shot. 30¹ COLIN fluffed an easy chance. 31¹ PLAVOTIC was put clear by COLIN and he nutmegged TURNER but thrust his shot over. 40¹ FASSNACHT beat TROSSARD and fired the ball to LUCAS JOÃO who blasted his shot wide. 42¹ SØRLOTH ran onto a wonderful ball from TROSSARD but toe-poked his effort wide. 44¹ GOAL!! A strike from FASSNACHT was hoofed off the line only for LUCAS JOÃO to crack the ball in. (2-0 Reading) 8² GOAL!! An inswinging corner headed out by FASSNACHT was lashed into the net by TROSSARD. (2-1 Reading) 20² ETHERIDGE did well to hold onto an amazing strike from LOADER. 26² A penalty box scramble resulted in OKORE driving a low shot wide. 28² COLIN fired the ball through a ruck of players but the Reading 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 29² DELE-BASHIRU floated the ball to FASSNACHT who headed it wide. 30² DRYSDALE cautions MURILLO. 40² BACUNA made space on the right and dragged the ball to SØRLOTH who touched the ball wide. 43² TROSSARD shot over. 44² GOAL!! With his back to goal LUCAS JOÃO swivelled and stabbed the ball past ETHERIDGE. (3-1 Reading)

Birmingham City   League position: 23 Home league form: WLLX Overall league form: XWWXLLLL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Neil ETHERIDGE 5½ 1 6½ Matt TURNER(c) Maxime COLIN 7½ 2 6  Tom HOLMES Rémy VITA 7  3 6½ Konstantinos TSIMIKAS Juninho BACUNA 7  4 7½ Tom DELE-BASHIRU Tin PLAVOTIC 7  5 7  MURILLO Santiago Jores OKORE 6  6 6  Tom McINTYRE Anthony MUSABA 6  7 7½ Michael OLISE (c)Leandro TROSSARD 7  8 7  Christian FASSNACHT (p)Alexander SØRLOTH 7  9 7  Danny LOADER(p) (f)James FORREST 5½ 10 6½ Jeff HENDRICK(f) Jamie PATERSON 7  11 5½ LUCAS Eduardo JOÃO Manager Lukas JUTKIEWICZ    12    Tom INCE Connal TRUEMAN    13    Coniah BOYCE-CLARKE Marc ROBERTS    14    Lewis BAKER Dion DE NEVE    15    Dejan TETEK Ryan STIRK    16    Nesta GUINNESS-WALKER

Reading   League position: 3 Away league form: XWOX Overall league form: WXWWWOWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Birmingham City 1 Reading 3 (Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 23,644, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Darren Drysdale 6) Trossard 8² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Tsimikas 18¹, Lucas João 44¹, Lucas João 44²           Holmes 6¹, Murillo 30² 2 3 4 5 5 7 6 6 10 7 16 13 5 3 53% 47% ¶ Man of the match: Michael Olise ¶