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Commentary
13¹LEISTNER beat two Birmingham City players and stroked an effort over the bar.
14¹A penalty box meleé resulted in SØRLOTH knocking a low shot wide.
26¹WEIHRAUCH's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
28¹The 'keeper was able to palm clear a tame header from BEN SEGHIR.
28¹A header by BOGLE at the near post was easily collected by the 'keeper.
30¹GOAL!! An imaginative DIOGO DALOT played a great ball down the right to BEN SEGHIR who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-0 Birmingham City)
31¹A free-kick from TROSSARD floated just wide.
32¹SØRLOTH rushed through the Newport County defence but shot straight at BONHAM.
33¹HERNÁNDEZ was put clear by LEISTNER and he beat the 'keeper but drilled his shot just wide.
41¹GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed BEN SEGHIR to knock the ball to SØRLOTH who placed a right foot shot into the net. (2-0 Birmingham City)
3²BEN SEGHIR touched the ball through a crowd of players but the Newport County 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
4²STRIEDER shot over.
5²BEN SEGHIR brought the ball away from STRIEDER and rattled a poor shot over.
10²GOAL!! An energetic ROMERO ran down the right wing and dragged the ball back for FRANCISCO CONCEIÇÃO to hammer home. (3-0 Birmingham City)
13²A cross from DIOGO DALOT left SØRLOTH in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
15²GOAL!! A shot from BEN SEGHIR flew through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted Newport County 'keeper. (4-0 Birmingham City)
27²ZUBIMENDI whacked a looping shot just beyond the near post from close range.
28²STRIEDER worked the ball to BELA, HERNÁNDEZ controlled his cross and booted the ball within easy reach of the Birmingham City 'keeper.
30²BONHAM parried a refined shot from SØRLOTH.
32²AÏT-NOURI chipped the ball to TROSSARD who fired it inches wide.
36²A weak shot from TROSSARD bounced agonisingly wide.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 5
Home league form: WWWL
Overall league form: XWWXWWLW
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
DJordje PETROVIC8 17 Jack BONHAM
José DIOGO DALOT8 27 Junior TCHAMADEU
Rayan AÏT-NOURI8 37½Amari'i BELL
Robin LE NORMAND8 47 Rico STRIEDER
Cristian ROMERO7 57 Cédric KIPRÉ
Joachim ANDERSEN6½65½Toni LEISTNER(c)
FRANCISCO Fernando CONCEIÇÃO7½76 Josh KEY
(c)Eliesse BEN SEGHIR7½86 Onel HERNÁNDEZ
(p)Martín ZUBIMENDI7½96 Omar BOGLE(p)
(f)Alexander SØRLOTH7 105½Jérémie BELA(f)
Leandro TROSSARD7½115½Patrick WEIHRAUCH
K RManager
ILIAS Akhomach  12  Haris VUCKIC
Matej KOVÁR  13  Vitus EICHER
James FORREST  14  Fankaty DABO
Sander BERGE  15  Jack PRICE
Tyler DIBLING  16  Scott HOGAN
 
Newport County
 
League position: 18
Away league form: LXOL
Overall league form: LLXWOWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 4 Newport County 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 30,070, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Mark Haywood 7½)

Ben Seghir 30¹, Sørloth 41¹, Francisco Conceição 10², Ben Seghir 15²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
  
32
1224
81
83
73
156
43
52%48%
Man of the match: Djordje Petrovic