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Commentary
0¹NGOY placed a deadly shot wide from twenty yards out.
1¹JAMES stabbed a simple chance past the near post.
3¹SHAQIRI ran onto a delightful ball from CLUCAS but blasted his shot wide of the goal.
4¹The bemused Birmingham City 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from JAMES fell just wide.
6¹A fine ball from GORDON on the right bobbled toward McNALLY who scuffed his shot over.
9¹SHAQIRI booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
10¹GOAL!! A long ball from BUREY had the Stoke City defence back-pedalling and FREY made the most of the opportunity with a good goal. (1-0 Birmingham City)
12¹A tame strike from NGOY bounced agonisingly wide.
24¹A thirty yard shot from SHAQIRI caused OKOYE little difficulty.
26¹ETEBO beat McNALLY and blasted the ball to SHAQIRI who toe-poked his effort wide.
30¹LONGELO's shot beat DAVIES but rebounded off the Stoke City upright.
31¹A accurate pass was collected by LONGELO and his deadly shot flew narrowly over.
2²GOAL!! A patient Birmingham City side were rewarded with an accurate strike from ARMSTRONG. (2-0 Birmingham City)
8²BATTH beat three Birmingham City players and drove a great chance over.
10²JAMES made space on the right and knocked the ball to ZAKARIA who rasped the ball wide.
14²A shot from BUREY was smothered by the Stoke City 'keeper.
16²BUREY brought the ball away from EDWARDS and rattled a poor shot well wide.
18²NGOY's shot was well held by OKOYE.
22²A mix up in the Stoke City defence enabled FREY to blast an effort just beyond the far post.
25²A penalty box meleé resulted in VASSILEV driving the ball over.
28²A good effort from VASSILEV scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
32²GOAL!! An energetic CAMPBELL ran down the wing and touched the ball back for MARTINS-INDI to fire home. (2-1 Birmingham City)
36²SHAQIRI shot over.
37²FREY headed wide.

 
Stoke City
 
League position: 15
Home league form: LLXW
Overall league form: LLOLXWWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Adam DAVIES6½16 Maduka OKOYE
Tom EDWARDS6½28½Cesar AZPILICUETA(c)
Bruno MARTINS-INDI6½36½Emmanuel LONGELO
Peter ETEBO7 47 Denis ZAKARIA
Ben WILMOT7½57 Luke McNALLY
Danny BATTH5½66½Nico GORDON
Joe ALLEN6½76 Tyler BUREY
(c)Xherdan SHAQIRI7 87 Indiana VASSILEV
(p)Julien NGOY7 96½Michael FREY(p)
(f)Sam CLUCAS6½108 Jordan JAMES(f)
Tyrese CAMPBELL6½116 Sinclair ARMSTRONG
Manager
Scott HOGAN  12  Marc ROBERTS
Jack BONHAM  13  Pierluigi GOLLINI
Nick POWELL  14  Ivan SUNJIC
Alex MIGHTEN  15  Josh McEACHRAN
James McCLEAN  16  Marcel OAKLEY
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 4
Away league form: WLW-
Overall league form: WWLWWWW-
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Stoke City 1 Birmingham City 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 20,330, Stadium: bet365, Referee: Grant Hegley 5½)

Martins-Indi 32²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Frey 10¹, Armstrong 2²
  
  
  
67
86
56
34
89
1113
21
43%57%
Man of the match: Cesar Azpilicueta