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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 8 (setup 1, season 31)
Birmingham City
v.
Port Vale
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Loris KARIUS16Yann SOMMER
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Jairo RIEDEWALD72Santiago ARIAS Naranjo
Chris BRUNT63Ryan BERTRAND
Gareth BARRY74Carlos Henrique CASEMIRO
Jonathan TAH75Victor LINDELÖF
Justin HOOGMA666Adil RAMI
Jason PUNCHEON67Ricardo Jorge da Luz HORTA
Andy KING8Matt PHILLIPS
Kwame THOMAS9Kevin GAMEIRO
Michael CARRICK7106Gylfi Þór SIGURÐSSON
Eric CHOUPO-MOTING117Nacer CHADLI
ManagerScott Smillie
Joe LEDLEY12JOSÉ Miguel da Rocha FONTE
Shane LONG13Jordan PICKFORD
Ryan KENT14Sebastian RUDY
Daniel DE SILVA15Connor WICKHAM
Max LOWE16Troy DEENEY

Birmingham City 0 Port Vale 2
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 33,670, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Phil DOWD 6½)
Scorers48 Chadli, 52 Chadli
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings2 Sigurðsson, 9 Lindelöf, 14 Rami
9Corners3
22Fouls11
3Offsides11
3Shots on5
9Shots off2
12Total shots7
3Shots saved3
52%Possession48%
Man of the match: Carlos Henrique CASEMIRO
2The ref cautions SIGURÐSSON.
7TAH ran onto a delightful ball from BARRY but dragged his shot wide of the righthand post.
9LINDELÖF booked for arguing with the referee.
12A free-kick from RIEDEWALD floated wide.
14A high tackle on THOMAS by RAMI results in a booking.
18A penalty box meleé resulted in KING driving the ball over.
20HORTA worked the ball to CASEMIRO, CHADLI collected his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of KARIUS.
22KING rushed an easy chance.
35HORTA poked an easy chance past the righthand post.
36The Birmingham City 'keeper was able to claw away a tame shot from RAMI.
40PHILLIPS booted the ball wide from just inside the area.
43A thirty yard shot from CARRICK caused the 'keeper no problem.
44CHOUPO-MOTING's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Port Vale woodwork.
 
48GOAL!! A short corner was played out to CHADLI who flicked the ball into the net. (1-0 Port Vale)
52GOAL!! An energetic HORTA ran down the right wing and pulled the ball back for CHADLI to flick home. (2-0 Port Vale)
64A mix up in the Port Vale defence enabled HOOGMA to hit the ball wide.
71CHOUPO-MOTING flicked a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out.
76A corner fell to KING who headed the ball inches wide.
78SOMMER did well to hold onto a fierce shot from THOMAS.
80THOMAS made space on the left and pulled the ball to KING who fired the ball over.
82A wonderful save prevented GAMEIRO from scoring a great goal.
90+1PUNCHEON shot over.