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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 4 (setup 4, season 29)
Birmingham City
v.
Rochdale
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Milos VESIC717Sam JOHNSTONE
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Maxime COLIN82Santiago VERGINI
Michael MORRISON36RÚBEN Gonçalo Silva Nascimento VINAGRE
Maikel KIEFTENBELD64Barry BANNAN
Mike VAN DER HOORN756John O'SHEA
Marc ROBERTS766Josh THOMPSON
Kevin VOLLAND77Igor SHEVCHENKO
Marko ARNAUTOVIC8Ross WALLACE
Lukas JUTKIEWICZ96Libor KOZÁK
Stewart DOWNING7106Stephen PEARSON
Ché ADAMS11Marcus OLSSON
Manager
Carl JENKINSON12Mika ÄÄRITALO
David STOCKDALE13Daniel HAAS
Jérémie BOGA14Matty DONE
Craig GARDNER15Andy CANNON
Gary GARDNER16Ollie RATHBONE

Birmingham City 2 Rochdale 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 29,858, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Iain WILLIAMSON 8)
4 Arnautovic, 29 MorrisonScorers
77 Kieftenbeld <=> BogaSubstitutions73 Rúben Vinagre <=> Rathbone
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners4
4Fouls15
7Offsides6
7Shots on3
8Shots off7
15Total shots10
5Shots saved3
58%Possession42%
Man of the match: Kevin VOLLAND
4GOAL!! A deep cross from COLIN on the right was headed home by ARNAUTOVIC at the far post. (1-0 Birmingham City)
7A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing JOHNSTONE.
9WALLACE placed a right foot shot just beyond the far post from thirty yards out.
15A cross from KIEFTENBELD left ARNAUTOVIC in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
15ARNAUTOVIC beat a number of Rochdale players and slammed a great chance over the bar.
17An inswinging corner was touched into the arms of the 'keeper by JUTKIEWICZ.
18KIEFTENBELD made space on the right and touched the ball to ARNAUTOVIC who fired the ball over.
22A delightful save prevented WALLACE from scoring an exceptional goal.
24VOLLAND floated the ball to VAN DER HOORN who forced it over.
29GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed DOWNING to play the ball to MORRISON who hit a looping shot home. (2-0 Birmingham City)
39THOMPSON hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.
 
46KOZÁK shot wide.
48JUTKIEWICZ's shot beat JOHNSTONE but rebounded off the Rochdale crossbar.
50A weak strike from OLSSON bounced agonisingly wide.
54MORRISON ran onto a great ball from ARNAUTOVIC but toe-poked his effort wide.
58A mix up in the Rochdale defence enabled COLIN to crack an effort inches wide.
62JOHNSTONE saved a clever strike from COLIN.
63A great effort from JUTKIEWICZ scraped the outside of the righthand post.
63An exceptional strike from KOZÁK was dealt with by a useful stop from VESIC.
64A lovely cross from VOLLAND, was flicked goalbound by COLIN only for the Rochdale 'keeper to claw away.
72A corner found BANNAN who turned the ball over the bar.
74SHEVCHENKO brought the ball away from MORRISON and poked a tame shot wide.
82A fine ball from ROBERTS on the left found VOLLAND who mishit his shot wide.
86A shot from KOZÁK was headed off the line by MORRISON.
90A pin-point pass fell to KOZÁK and his right foot effort flew narrowly over.