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Commentary
GOAL!! A deep goal-kick from ROBERTS caught the Bristol Rovers defence square and ESTUPIÑÁN rushed through to easily score. (1-0 Birmingham City)
The Birmingham City 'keeper saved a swerving shot from COBURN.
A accurate pass found PHILLIPS and his looping shot floated narrowly over.
A weak shot from ESTUPIÑÁN rolled agonisingly wide.
11¹COBURN's shot beat the Birmingham City 'keeper but rebounded off the Birmingham City crossbar.
17¹A useful ball from CHONG on the right bobbled toward JAMES who mishit his shot over.
27¹KEILLOR-DUNN's shot was well held by SELVIK.
27¹GOAL!! A quick-witted COBURN pounced on a loose ball just inside the box and made no mistake. (1-1)
31¹KEILLOR-DUNN shot over.
32¹A cross from WARD left BOGARDE in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
34¹A high challenge gets VAN DEN BERG a yellow card.
37¹A good effort from ESTUPIÑÁN scraped the upright.
39¹ESTUPIÑÁN was put clear by FRIEND and he stepped inside the Bristol Rovers 'keeper but rammed his shot wide.
ROBINSON ran onto a delightful ball from CRAMA but blasted his shot wide of the goal.
A header by SINCLAIR at the near post was easily collected by SELVIK.
JAMES beat ROBINSON and whacked the ball to BELLINGHAM who pulled his shot wide.
11²GOAL!! The creative PHILLIPS neatly touched on a cross for CHONG to hammer the ball in. (2-1 Birmingham City)
15²A free-kick from COBURN flew inches over.
16²WARD knocked the ball to BOGARDE who fired it over.
18²GOAL!! After a good build-up CHONG drove the ball past the 'keeper. (3-1 Birmingham City)
25²ESTUPIÑÁN fluffed a simple chance.
32²GOAL!! HOGAN made space for ESTUPIÑÁN who, after an interchange of passes just outside the area, thrust the ball past the 'keeper. (4-1 Birmingham City)

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 16
Home league form: WXL-
Overall league form: LLWWWLXL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Egil SELVIK1Arthur OKONKWO
(c)Maxime COLIN2Lamare BOGARDE
George FRIEND3Jack ROBINSON(c)
Jordan JAMES4Tristan CRAMA
Nathaniel PHILLIPS5Sepp VAN DEN BERG
Marc ROBERTS6Teden MENGI
Juninho BACUNA7Grant WARD
Tahith CHONG8Davis KEILLOR-DUNN
(p)Óscar ESTUPIÑÁN9Josh COBURN(p)
(f)Jobe BELLINGHAM10Taylor MOORE(f)
Scott HOGAN11Luke THOMAS
Manager
Ivan SUNJIC  12  Luke McCORMICK
Zach JEACOCK  13  Matthew COX
George HALL  14Scott SINCLAIR
Niall HUGGINS  15  Baily CARGILL
Gary GARDNER  16  James WILSON
 
Bristol Rovers
 
League position: 20
Away league form: WLLL
Overall league form: LWLWLLXL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 4 Bristol Rovers 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 15,910, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Iain Williamson 7½)

Estupiñán 5¹, Chong 11², Chong 18², Estupiñán 32²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Coburn 27¹
 Keillor-DunnóSinclair 5²
  
 van Den Berg 34¹
23
109
25
66
99
1515
23
49%51%
Man of the match: Josh Coburn