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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 2 (setup 1, season 25)
Birmingham City
v.
Chesterfield
Formation:
3-4-3
Overall form:
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Brad GUZAN71Antonio MIRANTE
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
8
Overall form:
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Anton FERDINAND2Sebastian BOENISCH
Liam RIDGEWELL63Jérémy MATHIEU
Michael CARRICK74Pontus WERNBLOOM
Michael TURNER5Giuseppe BIAVA
John Chukwridi UTAKA66Alessandro GAMBERINI
Jonny HOWSON77JOAQUÍN Sánchez Rodríguez
Jermaine JONES87André AYEW
Brown IDEYE Aide79Tim MATAVZ
Gareth BARRY610Lucas Rodrigo BIGLIA
Kalu UCHE116Thierry HENRY
D SgManager
Adam CAMPBELL12Ruslan ROTAN
Luke MURPHY13Tomás ROSICKÝ
Harry KANE14Stanislav MANOLEV
Larnell COLE15Rafael de Souza Pereira, RAFAEL CARIOCA
Joe BENNETT16MARCELO Antônio Guedes Filho

Birmingham City 4 Chesterfield 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 45,803, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Mark HAYWOOD 6½)
10 Ideye, 12 Ideye, 59 Utaka, 76og GamberiniScorers14 Matavz
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
7Corners7
18Fouls4
9Offsides4
5Shots on4
11Shots off8
16Total shots12
0Shots saved3
39%Possession61%
Man of the match: Pontus WERNBLOOM
10GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of IDEYE who placed the ball past the helpless Chesterfield 'keeper. (1-0 Birmingham City)
11A free-kick from UTAKA flew inches over.
12A good ball from IDEYE on the left bobbled toward UTAKA who scuffed his shot over the bar.
12GOAL!! GAMBERINI tried to play the ball out of the Chesterfield penalty area but was tackled by UCHE who flicked the ball to IDEYE for a simple goal. (2-0 Birmingham City)
14GOAL!! A long clearance by the Chesterfield 'keeper beat the Birmingham City defence and MATAVZ slammed the ball past the oncoming Birmingham City 'keeper. (2-1 Birmingham City)
26UTAKA made space on the left and knocked the ball to FERDINAND who rasped the ball wide.
31A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming GUZAN.
32A mix up in the Chesterfield defence enabled JONES to thump an effort wide.
41A tame strike from IDEYE trickled agonisingly wide.
44A lovely effort from AYEW scraped the upright.
45BIAVA nodded the ball wide from just outside the area.
45AYEW beat a number of Birmingham City players and drove a golden opportunity just beyond the far post.
 
48The 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing strike from UCHE.
50BARRY beat AYEW and drove the ball to CARRICK who fumbled his shot wide.
58A shot from AYEW was smothered by the Birmingham City 'keeper.
59GOAL!! On the right wing HOWSON collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the penalty box for UTAKA to crack it into the back of the net. (3-1 Birmingham City)
65A corner fell to WERNBLOOM who turned an effort wide.
67A penalty box meleé resulted in BOENISCH driving a low shot over.
76GOAL!! A corner flew into the goalmouth and GAMBERINI fumbled the ball into his own net.
86The motionless MIRANTE was a mere bystander as a backpass from BOENISCH dropped just over.
90+1A cross from JONES left UTAKA in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
90+2MATAVZ waltzed round TURNER and rattled a poor shot well wide.