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Commentary
A tame strike from CALVERT-LEWIN trickled agonisingly wide.
11¹ROOFE's shot was well saved by PENNY.
21¹GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from GRABBAN allowed JENKINSON to lay a exceptional ball off to BOGA who glanced the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Birmingham City)
22¹The referee yellow cards GARDNER for a bad tackle.
34¹A looping shot from CALVERT-LEWIN was blocked by CAMP.
35¹GOAL!! A great ball from RAY left HUSEKLEPP in the clear, he made CAMP commit himself before nudging the ball to CELINA to score. (1-1)
The Tranmere Rovers 'keeper managed to block a wicked shot.
10²GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by the 'keeper, HUSEKLEPP was first to the loose ball and chipped the ball to CELINA to slide in. (2-1 Tranmere Rovers)
18²HUSEKLEPP made space on the right and knocked the ball to CALVERT-LEWIN who fired the ball over.
19²COLIN beat a number of Tranmere Rovers players and drove an effort over.
20²COLIN given a yellow card by MUSSELWHITE for a bad tackle.
25²SÁ nodded the ball wide from just outside the area.
27²A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the oncoming CAMP.
28²CALVERT-LEWIN rushed a simple chance.
31²KIEFTENBELD given a yellow card for a clumsy foul on HUSEKLEPP.
33²KIEFTENBELD touched the ball through a crowd of players but PENNY was a match for it as he dived to his left.
33²A cross from GARDNER left ARNAUTOVIC in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
36²KIEFTENBELD blasted a right foot shot wide from just outside the area.
37²GOAL!! A shot from WILLIAMS deflected off the head of GARDNER and bobbled past the helpless CAMP and over the line. (3-1 Tranmere Rovers)
39²ROOFE stroked an easy chance past the far post.
43²A pin-point pass found CELINA and his right foot shot went narrowly over.
46²The bemused PENNY was all agog as a backpass from HUSEKLEPP fell just wide.

 
Tranmere Rovers
 
League position: 12
Home league form: LWWL
Overall league form: LLLWLWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Diego PENNY1Lee CAMP
Dedryck BOYATA2Maxime COLIN
Derrick WILLIAMS3Carl JENKINSON
(c)JAVI GARCÍA4Maikel KIEFTENBELD
George RAY5Marc ROBERTS
Rostyn GRIFFITHS6Gary GARDNER
Jonny SMITH7Craig GARDNER
Bersant CELINA8Jérémie BOGA
(p)Orlando SÁ9Kemar ROOFE(p)
(f)Erik HUSEKLEPP10Lewis GRABBAN(f)
Dom CALVERT-LEWIN11Marko ARNAUTOVIC(c)
Manager
Jari OOSTERWIJK  12  Jefferson MONTERO
Tomasz KUSZCZAK  13  Milos VESIC
Saul HALPIN  14  Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Alexis ALLART  15  Josh McEACHRAN
Calum WOODS  16  Scott HOGAN
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 14
Away league form: XLLX
Overall league form: XWLLLWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Tranmere Rovers 3 Birmingham City 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 16,620, Stadium: Prenton Park, Referee: Paul Musselwhite 7½)

Celina 35¹, Celina 10², Gardner 37² (og)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Boga 21¹
  
  
 Gardner 22¹, Colin 20², Kieftenbeld 31²
20
310
10
64
68
1212
23
43%57%
Man of the match: Javi García