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Commentary
0¹SAIBARI's shot beat the Portsmouth 'keeper but rebounded off the Portsmouth post.
7¹SAIBARI headed the ball wide from just inside the area.
8¹A useful ball from OSBORN on the right bobbled toward ODUBAJO who scuffed his shot just beyond the far post.
11¹ODUBAJO's shot was well held by ADRIÁN.
12¹GOAL!! A perfect ball from SAIBARI left TILLMAN in the clear, he made the 'keeper commit himself before touching the ball to SOLANKE to score. (1-0 Birmingham City)
17¹A penalty box meleé resulted in SOLANKE knocking the ball wide.
19¹GOAL!! A deep cross from CORNET on the right was headed home by SOLANKE at the near post. (2-0 Birmingham City)
20¹A free-kick from WOODROW flew inches over.
34¹A refined cross from KONATÉ was drove goalbound by SOLANKE only for the 'keeper to claw away.
36¹GOAL!! A poor drive from CANTWELL seemed to hold no problem for ADRIÁN but the ball somehow squirmed over the line. (2-1 Birmingham City)
37¹GOAL!! The creative CORNET neatly touched on a cross for SOLANKE to fire the ball in. (3-1 Birmingham City)
3²WOODROW ran onto a delightful ball from SWIFT but blasted his shot wide of the righthand post.
8²A delightful save prevented GAYLE from scoring a lovely goal.
9²A pin-point pass bobbled toward CORNET and his left foot shot flew narrowly wide.
12²A twenty yard shot from CANTWELL caused ADRIÁN no problem.
15²GOAL!! A refined set-piece enabled AYLING to nudge the ball into the net. (3-2 Birmingham City)
16²A cross from CORNET left SOLANKE in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
24²CANTWELL blasted a right foot shot wide from close range.
27²EBOSELE was put clear by SOLANKE and he stepped inside McCARTHY but drilled his shot inches wide.
30²A weak strike from SAIBARI trickled agonisingly wide.
40²A high challenge gets CANTWELL a yellow card.
46²WOODROW beat TETE and fired the ball to CANTWELL who fired his shot wide.

 
Portsmouth
 
League position: 22
Home league form: L---
Overall league form: L-------
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Alex McCARTHY6 16 ADRIÁN San(c)
(c)Luke AYLING8 27½Kenny TETE
Baba RAHMAN7½37½TOTI
Ben OSBORN6½47 Malik TILLMAN
Rasmus NICOLAISEN7 57 CENK Özkaçar
Sean RAGGETT6 66½Niels NKOUNKOU
Moses ODUBAJO8 77½Festy EBOSELE
Todd CANTWELL7 86½Maxwel CORNET
(p)Cauley WOODROW6 97½Dominic SOLANKE(p)
(f)John SWIFT6 106½Ismael SAIBARI(f)
Dwight GAYLE6 117 Karim KONATÉ
Manager
Mario VRANCIC  12  Jérémie BELA
Darren RANDOLPH  13  PABLO TORRE Carral
Ryley TOWLER  14  Marc ROBERTS
Fouad BACHIROU  15  Antonio NUSA
Tom NAYLOR  16  Kacper URBANSKI
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 2
Away league form: ----
Overall league form: W-------
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Portsmouth 2 Birmingham City 3
(Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 18,512, Stadium: Fratton Park, Referee: Russell Booth 7½)

Cantwell 36¹, Ayling 15²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Solanke 12¹, Solanke 19¹, Solanke 37¹
  
  
Cantwell 40² 
00
53
00
66
86
1412
23
55%45%
Man of the match: Moses Odubajo