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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 15 (setup 1, season 31)
Birmingham City
v.
Arsenal
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
Home form:
Loris KARIUS71Kevin TRAPP
Formation:
5-3-2
League position:
17
Overall form:
Home form:
Jairo RIEDEWALD2JORDI ALBA Ramos
Chris BRUNT737José María GIMÉNEZ de Vargas
Michael CARRICK747Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu
Jonathan TAH5Darijo SRNA
Justin HOOGMA667Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos
Jason PUNCHEON777Xabier Alonso Olano, XABI ALONSO
Ahmed MUSA78Marcus COCO
Carlton MORRIS69Mesut ÖZIL
Emmanuel Agyemang BADU610ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira
Shane LONG117NEYMAR da Silva Santos Júnior
ManagerRichard Metcalfe
Joe LEDLEY12Aleksandar KOLAROV
Andy KING13Gianluigi BUFFON
Reece BURKE14Abdelhak NOURI
Eric CHOUPO-MOTING615Anwar EL GHAZI
Glenn WHELAN16DIEGO da Silva COSTA

Birmingham City 0 Arsenal 1
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 33,446, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Phil DOWD 7, TV: highlights)
Scorers30 Coco
58 Musa <=> Choupo-Moting, 58 Brunt <=> KingSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
3Corners3
14Fouls18
2Offsides6
3Shots on6
6Shots off9
9Total shots15
3Shots saved5
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Darijo SRNA
1A free-kick from ROBERTO FIRMINO went inches wide.
8COCO scuffed an easy chance.
9KARIUS managed to palm clear an amazing shot.
10MORRIS ran onto a delightful ball from BADU but dragged his effort wide.
18A penalty box meleé resulted in RIEDEWALD cracking a low shot wide.
21A corner bobbled toward PUNCHEON who nodded an effort wide.
23ROBERTO FIRMINO shot wide.
30GOAL!! A scuffed NEYMAR shot fell to COCO who made no mistake from just inside the area. (1-0 Arsenal)
37A shot from MORRIS held little difficulty for TRAPP.
40XABI ALONSO chipped the ball to ROBERTO FIRMINO who headed it inches wide.
44PUNCHEON brought the ball away from COCO and rattled a poor shot past the post.
44The Arsenal 'keeper dived to his left to save a lovely drive from Birmingham City's PUNCHEON.
45+1SRNA headed over.
 
57NEYMAR's header was well saved by the Birmingham City 'keeper.
59PUNCHEON headed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.
62A right foot effort from COCO was saved by the 'keeper.
64The stunned TRAPP was a mere bystander as a backpass from COCO dropped just wide.
71A useful ball from COCO on the left was collected by ÖZIL who sliced his shot over the bar.
78ROBERTO FIRMINO made space on the right and touched the ball to COCO who touched the ball wide.
78KARIUS did well to hold onto a fierce shot from PIQUÉ.
80A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Birmingham City 'keeper.
82A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled COCO to volley an effort over the bar.
83An exceptional effort from ÖZIL scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
85The Arsenal 'keeper saved a glorious shot from BADU.