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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 38 (setup 1, season 25)
Birmingham City
v.
Everton
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Brad GUZAN16Benjamin LECOMTE
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
19
Overall form:
Home form:
Ashley WILLIAMS82Juan VALERA Espín
Liam RIDGEWELL737Federico BALZARETTI
Michael CARRICK74Felipe de Carvalho, FELIPE MELO
Billy JONES56Stefano LUCCHINI
John Chukwridi UTAKA767Matthew UPSON
Jason PUNCHEON87ELANO Blumer
Jermaine JONES86TUNCAY Sanli
Brown IDEYE Aide9Miroslav KLOSE
Gareth BARRY710Artem MILEVSKYI
Kalu UCHE116Andy JOHNSON
D SgManager
Adam CAMPBELL12Kim KÄLLSTRÖM
Luke MURPHY13José 'Paolo' GUERRERO Gonzales
Harry KANE14HUGO Miguel Pereira de ALMEIDA
Larnell COLE15Michael KIGHTLY
Joe BENNETT16Ibrahim AFELLAY

Birmingham City 4 Everton 1
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 45,685, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Kevin FRIEND 7, TV: highlights)
15 Utaka, 18 Ideye, 35 Ideye, 88 PuncheonScorers50 Balzaretti
Substitutions53 Upson <=> Hugo Almeida
Sendings off
Bookings83 Milevskyi
10Corners6
9Fouls3
17Offsides6
6Shots on4
11Shots off8
17Total shots12
2Shots saved3
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Ashley WILLIAMS
1A penalty box scramble resulted in IDEYE cracking a low shot wide.
2JONES worked the ball to BARRY, UTAKA latched onto his cross and headed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
3A corner found LUCCHINI who turned the ball wide.
6JONES's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
10A weak strike from UTAKA bounced agonisingly wide.
13The stunned 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from PUNCHEON fell just wide.
15GOAL!! After some neat play on the left UTAKA came inside and whacked the ball into the net. (1-0 Birmingham City)
18GOAL!! A long ball from CARRICK had the Everton defence back-pedalling and IDEYE made the most of the opportunity with a great goal. (2-0 Birmingham City)
27BALZARETTI fired the ball through a ruck of players but GUZAN was a match for it as he dived to his left.
35GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by the 'keeper, BARRY was first to the loose ball and floated the ball to IDEYE to slide in. (3-0 Birmingham City)
36A accurate pass bobbled toward IDEYE and his right foot shot flew narrowly over.
38A strike from BALZARETTI held no problem for GUZAN.
43A great effort from BALZARETTI scraped the upright.
44TUNCAY made space on the left and knocked the ball to UPSON who clipped the ball wide.
 
50GOAL!! A terrible clearance dropped to FELIPE MELO who mishit a shot goalward, luckily BALZARETTI was on hand to blast the ball into the top corner. (3-1 Birmingham City)
51UTAKA ran onto a great ball from BARRY but pulled his shot wide of the lefthand post.
56VALERA was put clear by BALZARETTI and he turned GUZAN but struck his shot wide.
59An inswinging corner was nodded into the arms of GUZAN by KLOSE.
60IDEYE knocked the ball to UCHE who flicked it over.
83FRIEND books MILEVSKYI.
88GOAL!! A terrible goal-kick was intercepted by JONES who setup PUNCHEON with an easy chance. (4-1 Birmingham City)
90A cross from MILEVSKYI left KLOSE in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.