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Commentary
BUREY beat SINANI and drove the ball to ZAKARIA who pulled his effort wide.
A drive from JAMES seemed a certain goal but the Walsall 'keeper managed to fist the ball away.
GOAL!! A shot from SINANI which the 'keeper was able to palm clear seemed to have crossed the line and BENNETT gave the goal. (1-0 Walsall)
14¹A clever cross from DOBSON was shot goalbound by SINANI only for the 'keeper to claw away.
16¹A tame shot from GORDON trickled agonisingly wide.
18¹A great shot from EKUBAN was dealt with by a fine stop from the Birmingham City 'keeper.
20¹A bad challenge gets McNALLY a yellow card.
21¹GINNELLY ran onto a delightful ball from SINANI but fired his shot wide of the righthand post.
25¹A cross from GINNELLY left DOBSON in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
27¹FREY's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
28¹DOBSON beat four Birmingham City players and fired a golden opportunity wide.
29¹SINANI headed over.
30¹GOAL!! On the left wing AZPILICUETA collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for FREY to drill it into the back of the net. (1-1)
33¹SINANI's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Birmingham City woodwork.
42¹EKUBAN fluffed an easy chance.
46¹SINANI hoofed the ball wide of the righthand post from just inside the area.
47¹DOBSON hit a right foot shot wide from twenty yards out.
A penalty box meleé resulted in JAMES cracking a low shot wide.
12²The 'keeper dived to his left to save an accurate drive from Birmingham City's VASSILEV.
23²A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled SINANI to hammer the ball over the bar.
25²GOAL!! A poor goal-kick was intercepted by VASSILEV who setup JAMES with an easy chance. (2-1 Birmingham City)
34²A corner found VASSILEV who nodded an effort wide.

 
Walsall
 
League position: 16
Home league form: WWLL
Overall league form: WWXWLLLL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Aynsley PEARS1Maduka OKOYE
Darryl WESTLAKE2Cesar AZPILICUETA(c)
Omar RICHARDS3Emmanuel LONGELO
George DOBSON4Denis ZAKARIA
Jon GUTHRIE5Luke McNALLY
Anthony O'CONNOR6Nico GORDON
Jérémie BELA7Tyler BUREY
Danel SINANI8Indiana VASSILEV
(p)Caleb EKUBAN9Michael FREY(p)
(f)Josh GINNELLY10Jordan JAMES(f)
(c)Nuno DA COSTA11Sinclair ARMSTRONG
Manager
Luke LEAHY  12  Ivan SUNJIC
Nicolas SCHMID  13  Pierluigi GOLLINI
Julien DACOSTA14  Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Hayden WHITE  15  Marcel OAKLEY
Ben GORDON  16  Josh McEACHRAN
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 1
Away league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWWWOWLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Walsall 1 Birmingham City 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 11,080, Stadium: Bescot, Referee: Steve Bennett 7½)

Sinani 9¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Frey 30¹, James 25²
da CostaóDacosta 5² 
  
 McNally 20¹
03
97
02
65
117
1712
43
50%50%
Man of the match: Caleb Ekuban