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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 34 (setup 1, season 25)
Birmingham City
v.
Tranmere Rovers
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Brad GUZAN817Mihai GHERASIM
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
24
Overall form:
Home form:
Ashley WILLIAMS72FELIPE Dias da Silva dal Belo
Liam RIDGEWELL63Yuri ZHIRKOV
Michael CARRICK4RUBÉN Salvador PÉREZ del Marmol
Billy JONES656Paolo CANNAVARO
John Chukwridi UTAKA66Aleksandar IGNJOVSKI
Jason PUNCHEON76Niko KRANJCAR
Jermaine JONES86Andrei ARSHAVIN
Brown IDEYE Aide79Tomás NECID
Gareth BARRY106Dmitri SYCHEV
Kalu UCHE7116EDUARDO Alves da Silva
D SgManager
Adam CAMPBELL12Mladen PETRIC
Luke MURPHY13Nathan STANTON
Harry KANE14Rob HALL
Larnell COLE15
Joe BENNETT16Vágner Silva de Souza, VÁGNER LOVE

Birmingham City 5 Tranmere Rovers 0
(Half-time: 4-0, Attendance: 45,718, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: MELLIN 5½, TV: highlights)
5 Uche, 9 Uche, 24 Carrick, 27 Ideye, 75og ArshavinScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
10Corners9
23Fouls8
14Offsides4
5Shots on2
12Shots off3
17Total shots5
0Shots saved2
47%Possession53%
Man of the match: Brad GUZAN
2JONES chipped the ball to CARRICK who turned it inches over.
5GOAL!! A delightful bit of skill enabled UCHE to waltz through the Tranmere Rovers defence and score. (1-0 Birmingham City)
9GOAL!! An energetic JONES ran down the wing and dragged the ball back for UCHE to drill home. (2-0 Birmingham City)
24GOAL!! A block from the 'keeper enabled CARRICK to lob the ball into the empty net. (3-0 Birmingham City)
27GOAL!! A short corner was played out to IDEYE who flicked the ball into the net. (4-0 Birmingham City)
36A poor shot from NECID trickled agonisingly wide.
37A cross from BARRY left CARRICK in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
39The hapless GUZAN was a mere bystander as a backpass from WILLIAMS fell just wide.
39UTAKA fired a deadly shot just beyond the near post from close range.
44CARRICK shot over.
 
54BARRY headed wide.
57UTAKA nodded the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
59A corner bobbled toward UCHE who turned the ball over.
60A penalty box scramble resulted in PUNCHEON tapping a low shot wide.
63WILLIAMS beat a number of Tranmere Rovers players and blasted a golden opportunity over.
65NECID fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
65RUBÉN PÉREZ worked the ball to KRANJCAR, NECID collected his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of GUZAN.
75GOAL!! A shot from JONES deflected off the shins of ARSHAVIN and rolled past the helpless Tranmere Rovers 'keeper and into the net.
84UCHE beat KRANJCAR and placed the ball to UTAKA who fired his shot wide.
86A good effort from UTAKA scraped the top of the crossbar.
89ARSHAVIN ran onto a great ball from KRANJCAR but fumbled his shot wide.
90+3A free-kick from UTAKA flew inches over.