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2¹ The stunned 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from McNALLY dropped just wide. 3¹ GOAL!! A great ball from ZAKARIA left VASSILEV in the clear, he made the 'keeper commit himself before squaring the ball to FREY to score. (1-0 Birmingham City) 6¹ A header by ONUACHU at the near post was easily collected by OKOYE. 7¹ Uncertainty in the Birmingham City defence enabled LINGARD to blast an effort inches wide. 8¹ A tame strike from JAMES rolled agonisingly wide. 12¹ STOBBS's shot was well saved by the Birmingham City 'keeper. 13¹ KAMINSKI was able to claw away a fierce effort. 14¹ A drive from DELE-BASHIRU seemed a certain goal but the Birmingham City 'keeper managed to fist the ball away. 23¹ LINGARD shot over. 24¹ GOAL!! With his back to goal LINGARD swivelled and rattled the ball past the Birmingham City 'keeper. (1-1) 26¹ GOAL!! Unlucky HENDERSON hit the crossbar before DELE-BASHIRU stabbed the ball home as ZAKARIA failed to clear. (2-1 Sheffield Weds.) 27¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in CACACE tapping the ball wide. 29¹ The 'keeper was able to claw away a weak header from FREY. 41¹ DELE-BASHIRU headed inches wide. 42¹ JAMES hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area. 2² DELE-BASHIRU brought the ball past McNALLY and poked a poor shot wide. 5² GOAL!! A short backpass by AZPILICUETA enabled ONUACHU to nip in and slip the ball past the 'keeper. (3-1 Sheffield Weds.) 6² ONUACHU played the ball to WELBECK who nodded it wide. 10² The 'keeper did well to hold onto a fierce shot from VASSILEV. 11² FREY flicked a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out. 23² ZAKARIA was put clear by McNALLY and he dummied KAMINSKI but glanced his shot wide. 25² ZAKARIA beat three Sheffield Weds. players and slammed an effort over the bar. 30² A fine ball from WELBECK on the left found STOBBS who sliced his shot just wide. 34² DELE-BASHIRU ran onto a great ball from LINGARD but fired his effort wide. 45² ONUACHU clipped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.

Sheffield Weds.   League position: 12 Home league form: WLXX Overall league form: XWWLLLXL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Thomas KAMINSKI 7  1 7½ Maduka OKOYE Joey PELUPESSY 6  2 6½ Cesar AZPILICUETA(c) EMERSON PALMIERI dos Santos 7½ 3 6½ Liberato CACACE (c)Jordan HENDERSON 7  4 7½ Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG Nicolas N'KOULOU 6½ 5 6½ Luke McNALLY Joost VAN AKEN 6½ 6 6  Tin PLAVOTIC Jack STOBBS 6  7 6½ Denis ZAKARIA Jesse LINGARD 5½ 8 7½ Indiana VASSILEV (p)Paul ONUACHU 7  9 6½ Michael FREY(p) (f)Fisayo DELE-BASHIRU 7½ 10 6½ Jordan JAMES(f) Danny WELBECK 7  11 6½ Sinclair ARMSTRONG Manager NETO BORGES    12    Lukas JUTKIEWICZ Joe WILDSMITH    13    Pierluigi GOLLINI Josh WINDASS    14    Ivan SUNJIC Barry BANNAN 6  15    Nico GORDON Julian BÖRNER    16    Emmanuel LONGELO

Birmingham City   League position: 18 Away league form: XWLW Overall league form: LOXWOWLL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Sheffield Weds. 3 Birmingham City 1 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 25,194, Stadium: Hillsborough, Referee: Thomas Troupkos 7½) Lingard 24¹, Dele-Bashiru 26¹, Onuachu 5² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Frey 3¹ LingardóBannan 38²           7 5 4 8 9 5 7 4 8 6 15 10 4 3 45% 55% ¶ Man of the match: Pierre-Emile Højbjerg ¶