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1¹ YAMAL nodded the ball wide from just outside the area. 3¹ A good ball from WIRTZ on the left was collected by HERNÁNDEZ who scuffed his shot over the bar. 4¹ BELLINGHAM beat JAMES and placed the ball to WIRTZ who pulled his effort wide. 5¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in SALIBA driving a low shot over. 7¹ WIRTZ ran onto a great ball from RICE but dragged his shot wide. 8¹ JAMES rifled an easy chance past the lefthand post. 13¹ STONES shot wide. 17¹ GOAL!! A quick-witted WATKINS pounced on a loose ball on the left and made no mistake. (1-0 Barcelona) 18¹ GOAL!! A corner shot into the goalmouth and STONES fumbled the ball into his own net. (1-1) 29¹ A free-kick from HERNÁNDEZ raced inches over. 33¹ WATKINS headed over. 34¹ The motionless ANDRÉS PRIETO was a mere bystander as a backpass from NEUMANN fell just wide. 35¹ A mix up in the Barcelona defence enabled SOLOMON-OTABOR to blast an effort over. 44¹ A cross from RODRI left RICE in lots of space but he rushed his shot. 0² WATKINS was put clear by HERNÁNDEZ and he turned the Birmingham City 'keeper but thrust his shot wide. 3² YAMAL beat three Birmingham City players and fired an effort wide. 16² GOAL!! Barcelona were awarded a penalty after a foul on RICE and WATKINS put it past ANDRÉS PRIETO. (2-1 Barcelona) 16² A poor strike from LE BIHAN trickled agonisingly wide. 22² A accurate pass found WIRTZ and his left foot shot went narrowly wide. 28² DACRES-COGLEY snapped at an easy chance. 35² GOAL!! A shot from WIRTZ rolled through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted 'keeper. (3-1 Barcelona) 36² RICE played the ball to WIRTZ who turned it just beyond the near post. 40² BELLINGHAM made space on the left and touched the ball to WIRTZ who clipped the ball over.

Birmingham City   League position: - Home league form: ---- Overall league form: -------- Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups ANDRÉS Tomás PRIETO 5½ 1 6½ Yann SOMMER (c)Oliver SORG 7  2 8½ Giovanni DI LORENZO Lilian BRASSIER 7½ 3 8  Theo HERNÁNDEZ Jobe BELLINGHAM 6½ 4 8  RODRI(c) Adam OBERT 6½ 5 8  William SALIBA Phil NEUMANN 6  6 6½ John STONES Josh WILLIAMS 6½ 7 8  Lamine YAMAL Viv SOLOMON-OTABOR 6½ 8 7  Declan RICE(f) (p)Mickaël LE BIHAN 6  9 6  Ollie WATKINS(p) (f)Jordan JAMES 6  10 7  Jude BELLINGHAM ÁLVARO Giménez 5½ 11 8  Florian WIRTZ Manager Ben Stevenson Wes HARDING    12    Jurriën TIMBER Adam LEGZDINS    13    Unai SIMÓN IVÁN Sánchez    14    Dean HUIJSEN Odin BAILEY    15    Martin ØDEGAARD Josh DACRES-COGLEY 6½ 16    PEDRI

Barcelona   League position: 10 Away league form: LLWW Overall league form: LLWWW--- Formation: 4-2-3-1

Barcelona go through to the next round

Statistics

Birmingham City 1 Barcelona 3 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 20,702, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Kim Nielsen 7½) Stones 18¹ (og) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Watkins 17¹, Watkins 16² (pen), Wirtz 35² Solomon-OtaboróDacres-Cogley 5²           5 1 8 6 1 9 1 3 4 15 5 18 0 0 42% 58% ¶ Man of the match: Giovanni di Lorenzo ¶