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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 27 (setup 1, season 26)
Birmingham City
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
3-4-3
Overall form:
Home form:
Brad GUZAN1DIEGO Alves Carreira
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
Ashley WILLIAMS72Darijo SRNA
Liam RIDGEWELL36ADRIANO Correia Claro
Michael CARRICK4Toni KROOS
Geoff CAMERON65DAVID LUIZ Moreira Marinho
Saido BERAHINO76Benedikt HÖWEDES
Jason PUNCHEON78Valon BEHRAMI
Emmanuel Agyemang BADU787Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI
Brown IDEYE Aide98Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR
Gareth BARRY6106Lars BENDER
Kalu UCHE116Samuel ETO'O Fils
D SgManager
Adam CAMPBELL12Kevin VOLLAND
Patrick ROBERTS13Roman WEIDENFELLER
Harry KANE14Holger BADSTUBER
Cauley WOODROW15Santiago Cazorla González, SANTI CAZORLA
Adam ARMSTRONG16Adil RAMI

Birmingham City 2 Rochdale 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 41,450, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Barry KNIGHT 5½)
31 Carrick, 73 BarryScorers55 Kroos, 71 Behrami
Substitutions72 Adriano <=> Badstuber
Sendings off
Bookings
7Corners6
11Fouls3
20Offsides12
6Shots on4
8Shots off9
14Total shots13
4Shots saved2
43%Possession57%
Man of the match: Valon BEHRAMI
4SRNA headed over the bar.
5A lovely effort from IDEYE scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
16KROOS beat WILLIAMS and blasted the ball to SRNA who hit his shot wide.
22LAVEZZI knocked the ball to HUNTELAAR who flicked it wide.
24A good ball from KROOS on the right fell to LAVEZZI who mishit his shot just beyond the far post.
31GOAL!! After being forced wide CARRICK was able to force the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (1-0 Birmingham City)
33KROOS shot over.
35IDEYE rushed through the Rochdale defence but shot straight at DIEGO.
38A perfect shot from IDEYE was dealt with by a fine parry from the 'keeper.
39IDEYE drilled a left foot shot over the bar from just outside the area.
 
47A accurate pass was collected by LAVEZZI and his looping effort raced narrowly wide.
50Uncertainty in the Birmingham City defence enabled KROOS to crack the ball inches over.
55A shot from LAVEZZI was smothered by the 'keeper.
55GOAL!! A Rochdale counter-attack allowed BEHRAMI to setup KROOS with a simple goal. (1-1)
68A shot from IDEYE seemed a certain goal but the Rochdale 'keeper managed to palm the ball clear.
71GOAL!! Rochdale's BEHRAMI beat two defenders before firing just inside GUZAN's far post. (2-1 Rochdale)
73GOAL!! Some patient work by IDEYE on the right, left BARRY yards clear, and he stepped inside the Rochdale 'keeper and drove the ball into the roof of the net. (2-2)
74A corner was collected by CARRICK who turned the ball wide.
75A shot from UCHE was hoofed off the line by SRNA.
79SRNA was put clear by LAVEZZI and he dummied GUZAN but glanced his shot just wide.
82The hapless DIEGO was a mere bystander as a backpass from BENDER fell just over.
86BARRY headed the ball wide from just outside the area.