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Commentary
The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from AZPILICUETA fell just wide.
AZPILICUETA ran onto a delightful ball from VASSILEV but pulled his shot wide of the goal.
The referee cautions PLAVOTIC for a late tackle.
13¹VASSILEV fluffed a simple chance.
14¹A cynical challenge on SANDERSON by ARMSTRONG results in a booking.
16¹A tame shot from VASSILEV trickled agonisingly wide.
19¹ZAKARIA beat CRISTIAN and blasted the ball to AZPILICUETA who blasted his effort wide.
24¹A cross from BUREY left HØJBJERG in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
24¹A penalty box scramble resulted in CRISTIAN cracking a low shot wide.
29¹CLIFTON steamed through the Birmingham City defence but shot straight at OKOYE.
36¹A shot from ARMSTRONG was headed off the line by BROWN.
37¹GOAL!! A BUREY run down the left resulted in a exceptional cross for HØJBJERG to crack in. (1-0 Birmingham City)
GOAL!! A long ball from ZAKARIA had the Grimsby Town defence back-pedalling and FREY made the most of the opportunity with a lovely goal. (2-0 Birmingham City)
15²BROWN headed wide.
18²CRISTIAN fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
19²A delightful shot from FREY was dealt with by a useful block from the 'keeper.
23²A twenty yard drive from JONES caused the 'keeper no problem.
26²A clever pass from CRISTIAN was knocked goalbound by SRBENY only for the Birmingham City 'keeper to block.
32²A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Birmingham City 'keeper.
35²PLAVOTIC red carded for a cynical tackle he had already received a yellow card earlier in the match.
36²A free-kick from CRISTIAN raced over the bar.
45²HØJBJERG booked by GRAHAM.

 
Grimsby Town
 
League position: 21
Home league form: XLXL
Overall league form: WLXLXLLL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Mateusz LIS1Maduka OKOYE
Dion SANDERSON2Cesar AZPILICUETA(c)
(c)Antonee ROBINSON3Emmanuel LONGELO
Harry CLIFTON4Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG
Jaden BROWN5Luke McNALLY
Dan JONES6Tin PLAVOTIC
Jordi OSEI-TUTU7Tyler BUREY
Mads BECH8Indiana VASSILEV
(p)Dennis SRBENY9Michael FREY(p)
(f)CRISTIAN López10Denis ZAKARIA(f)
Macaulay LANGSTAFF11Sinclair ARMSTRONG
Manager
Kieran GREEN  12  Josh McEACHRAN
Max CROCOMBE  13  Pierluigi GOLLINI
Uche IKPEAZU14Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Adrian MARIAPPA  15  Jordan JAMES
Steve SEDDON  16  Ivan SUNJIC
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 1
Away league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WLWWWWWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Grimsby Town 0 Birmingham City 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 9,867, Stadium: Blundell Park, Referee: Fred Graham 6)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Højbjerg 37¹, Frey 1²
CliftonóIkpeazu 7²McNallyóJutkiewicz 29²
 Plavotic 35²
 Plavotic 9¹, Armstrong 14¹, Højbjerg 45²
14
1315
811
64
610
1214
52
53%47%
Man of the match: Dion Sanderson