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Commentary
11¹CAREY made space on the left and dragged the ball to HOUNTONDJI who clipped the ball over.
14¹A drive from CHONG seemed a certain goal but the Blackpool 'keeper managed to parry the ball clear.
22¹GOAL!! With his back to goal YATES swivelled and rattled the ball past SELVIK. (1-0 Blackpool)
25¹A useful ball from ESTUPIÑÁN on the right was collected by CHONG who mishit his shot just beyond the near post.
26¹POVEDA beat COLIN and drove the ball to YATES who dragged his shot wide.
28¹HOUNTONDJI ran onto a wonderful ball from CAREY but toe-poked his effort wide.
30¹RODÁK did well to hold onto a fierce shot from COLIN.
32¹YATES hit a right foot shot wide from twenty yards out.
33¹CAREY rifled an easy chance past the righthand post.
37¹A corner found HUSBAND who forced an effort over.
The Blackpool 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce shot from Birmingham City's SUNJIC.
GOAL!! A long ball from SUNJIC had the Blackpool defence back-pedalling and ESTUPIÑÁN made the most of the opportunity with a great goal. (1-1)
13²CAREY played the ball to POVEDA who fired it over the bar.
16²The hapless Blackpool 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from HOLMES dropped just wide.
17²ESTUPIÑÁN shot over.
20²A mix up in the Blackpool defence enabled COLIN to crack an effort just beyond the far post.
24²SUNJIC dummied POVEDA but fired the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
30²HOUNTONDJI rushed an easy chance.
35²A good effort from YATES scraped the top of the crossbar.
39²JAMES headed wide.
42²GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from CHONG hit the crossbar and in the ensuing scramble the ball was hoofed into the net by ESTUPIÑÁN. (2-1 Birmingham City)
45²A tame shot from OAKLEY trickled agonisingly wide.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWWWLWWX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Egil SELVIK1Marek RODÁK
(c)Maxime COLIN2Tom HOLMES
George FRIEND3James HUSBAND
Jordan JAMES4Curtis NELSON
Nico GORDON5Lewis DUNK(c)
Marc ROBERTS6Marvin EKPITETA
Josh WILLIAMS7Sonny CAREY
Tahith CHONG8Ian POVEDA
(p)Óscar ESTUPIÑÁN9Jerry YATES(p)
(f)Ivan SUNJIC10Keshi ANDERSON(f)
Isaac VASSELL11Andréas HOUNTONDJI
Manager
Juninho BACUNA  12  Reece JAMES
Milos VESIC  13  Daniel GRIMSHAW
Marcel OAKLEY14  Olly CASEY
Niall HUGGINS  15  Callum CONNOLLY
George HALL16  Shayne LAVERY
 
Blackpool
 
League position: 3
Away league form: LLWL
Overall league form: OLWLWXWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 1
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 21,750, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Steve Bratt 5½)

Estupiñán 9², Estupiñán 42²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Yates 22¹
WilliamsóOakley 29², VassellóHall 32² 
  
  
02
812
32
82
612
1414
50
50%50%
Man of the match: Maxime Colin