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0¹ MARIO clipped the ball through a crowd of players but ADRIÁN was a match for it as he dived to his right. 2¹ GOAL!! YATES made space for PIROE who, after an interchange of passes twenty yards out, drilled the ball past the Birmingham City 'keeper. (1-0 Blackpool) 7¹ A great effort from NUSA scraped the outside of the lefthand post. 13¹ A free-kick from KEANE floated wide. 21¹ GOAL!! An outswinging corner nodded out by BATTH was nudged into the back of the net by SOLANKE. (1-1) 27¹ MINTEH beat STEVENS and blasted the ball to NUSA who toe-poked his effort wide. 30¹ PABLO TORRE ran onto a great ball from MINTEH but pulled his effort wide of the goal. 37¹ MINTEH shot wide. 6² A fine ball from TOTI on the left fell to TILLMAN who mishit his shot over the bar. 20² SØRENSEN knocked the ball to KEANE who touched it over. 23² GOAL!! The Blackpool 'keeper got into a muddle with a backpass from STEVENS and NUSA managed to squeeze the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Birmingham City) 24² GOAL!! As TETE was trying to hold back MARIO the ball fell to KEANE who knocked the ball into the net. (2-2) 27² URBANSKI headed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area. 28² A poor strike from PIROE trickled agonisingly wide. 30² TETE was put clear by DIAKITE and he turned the Blackpool 'keeper but drilled his shot just beyond the far post. 31² The hapless Blackpool 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from SØRENSEN fell just wide. 34² NUSA snapped at a simple chance. 8ª¹ GOAL!! An energetic PABLO TORRE ran down the left wing and touched the ball back for CORNET to drill home. (3-2 Birmingham City) 4ª² NUSA placed a left foot shot over the bar from just outside the area. 10ª² MINTEH made space on the left and touched the ball to SOLANKE who touched the ball wide. 12ª² SMITH's shot beat the Birmingham City 'keeper but rebounded off the Birmingham City upright. 14ª² GOAL!! A delightful ball from DIAKITE left URBANSKI in the clear, he made the Blackpool 'keeper commit himself before touching the ball to TETE to score. (4-2 Birmingham City)

Blackpool   League position: 23 Home league form: LOLL Overall league form: XLLLLLOL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Lee NICHOLLS 4½ 1 5½ ADRIÁN San MARIO Gaspar 7  2 7½ Kenny TETE Enda STEVENS 6½ 3 8  Maxwel CORNET Jacob SØRENSEN 6½ 4 6½ PABLO TORRE Carral(c) (c)Danny BATTH 6  5 7½ CENK Özkaçar Marvin EKPITETA 6  6 7½ TOTI Grant WARD 6  7 8  Yankuba MINTEH Kenny DOUGALL 5½ 8 7½ Kacper URBANSKI (p)Will KEANE 6½ 9 8  Dominic SOLANKE(p) (f)Jerry YATES 6  10 7  Malik TILLMAN(f) Joël PIROE 5½ 11 7½ Antonio NUSA Manager Luke MURRAY Jordan GABRIEL    12    Niels NKOUNKOU David BUTTON    13    Tommy SIMKIN Nathan SMITH 6  14    Riley McGREE Kevin STEWART    15    Ivan SUNJIC C.J. HAMILTON    16 7  Oumar DIAKITE

Birmingham City   League position: 3 Away league form: WXWL Overall league form: WWXWWLXW Formation: 4-2-3-1

Birmingham City go through to the next round , after extra time

Statistics

Blackpool 2 Birmingham City 4 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 15,821, Stadium: Bloomfield Road Ground, Referee: Nigel Miller 6) Piroe 2¹, Keane 24² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Solanke 21¹, Nusa 23², Cornet 8ª¹, Tete 14ª² YatesóSmith 9ª¹ TillmanóDiakite 25²         4 1 10 15 1 2 5 6 7 16 12 22 3 2 41% 59% ¶ Man of the match: Dominic Solanke ¶