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Commentary
VAN VELZEN nodded the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
13¹ROBINSON pulled away from JAMES but hit the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
19¹ZAKARIA ran onto a great ball from HØJBJERG but pulled his effort wide of the goal.
21¹A twenty-five yard shot from BECH caused the Birmingham City 'keeper no problem.
23¹GOAL!! Showing lots of skill FREY dribbled past ROBINSON and lashed the ball past the 'keeper. (1-0 Birmingham City)
24¹VASSILEV booked.
29¹VASSILEV waltzed round ROBINSON and flicked a tame shot past the post.
31¹VASSILEV flicked an easy chance past the near post.
33¹A penalty box meleé resulted in JAMES knocking the ball wide.
HØJBJERG made space on the left and dragged the ball to McNALLY who touched the ball wide.
The stunned LIS could only watch as a backpass from MORRIS dropped just over.
HØJBJERG knocked the ball to VASSILEV who turned it wide.
14²BAYLISS's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
20²MORRIS was put clear by SANDERSON and he beat OKOYE but drilled his shot just beyond the far post.
22²A corner bobbled toward HØJBJERG who turned an effort inches over.
23²SRBENY steamed through the Birmingham City defence but shot straight at OKOYE.
29²A great effort from VASSILEV scraped the outside of the righthand post.
35²VAN VELZEN snapped at a simple chance.
37²CRISTIAN rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
39²The Birmingham City 'keeper saved a curling effort from VAN VELZEN.
41²A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper.
43²GOAL!! A Birmingham City counter-attack allowed ZAKARIA to setup FREY with an easy goal. (2-0 Birmingham City)

 
Grimsby Town
 
League position: -
Home league form: WW--
Overall league form: WW------
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Mateusz LIS1Maduka OKOYE
Jordi OSEI-TUTU2Cesar AZPILICUETA(c)
(c)Antonee ROBINSON3Emmanuel LONGELO
Tom BAYLISS4Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG
Dion SANDERSON5Luke McNALLY
Jaden BROWN6Tin PLAVOTIC
Gyliano VAN VELZEN7Denis ZAKARIA
Mads BECH8Indiana VASSILEV
(p)Dennis SRBENY9Michael FREY(p)
(f)Josh MORRIS10Jordan JAMES(f)
CRISTIAN López11Sinclair ARMSTRONG
Manager
Ben PRINGLE  12  Nico GORDON
Max CROCOMBE  13  Pierluigi GOLLINI
Louis BOYD  14  Ivan SUNJIC
Harry CLIFTON  15Marc ROBERTS
Kieran GREEN  16  Harlee DEAN
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: -
Away league form: W---
Overall league form: WW------
Formation: 4-3-3
Birmingham City go through to the next round
Statistics
Grimsby Town 0 Birmingham City 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 9,946, Stadium: Blundell Park, Referee: Neil Swarbrick 6)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Frey 23¹, Frey 43²
 JamesóRoberts 24²
  
 Vassilev 24¹
43
1112
85
77
512
1219
74
49%51%
Man of the match: Luke McNally