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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 30 (setup 4, season 27)
Birmingham City
v.
Tranmere Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
8
Overall form:
Home form:
Milos VESIC16Diego Alonso Roberto PENNY Váldez
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
Michael MORRISON62Jack STEPHENS
Dean MOXEY737MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza
Stewart DOWNING74Francisco Javier García Fernández, JAVI GARCÍA
Mike VAN DER HOORN856Wes ATKINSON
Marc ROBERTS766Rostyn GRIFFITHS
Kevin VOLLAND776Erik HUSEKLEPP
Marko ARNAUTOVIC8Bersant CELINA
Callum WILSON96Orlando Carlos Braga de SÁ
Martin BRAITHWAITE610Jari OOSTERWIJK
Jérémie BOGA6116Dom CALVERT-LEWIN
Manager
Craig GARDNER12Matthew BRIGGS
Jon STEWART13Tomasz KUSZCZAK
Maikel KIEFTENBELD14Saul HALPIN
David COTTERILL15Alexis ALLART
Carl JENKINSON16Alex HENSHALL

Birmingham City 3 Tranmere Rovers 2
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 29,895, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Egil NERVIK 7½)
12 Arnautovic, 41 Wilson, 62 WilsonScorers12 , 58 Celina
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings29 Celina
3Corners2
2Fouls17
9Offsides9
5Shots on4
7Shots off13
12Total shots17
2Shots saved2
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: Mike VAN DER HOORN
12GOAL!! A nice run by BRAITHWAITE on the left was capped by a wonderful cross which ARNAUTOVIC forced home from inside the penalty box. (1-0 Birmingham City)
12GOAL!! After a fine build-up drove a low shot past the 'keeper. (1-1)
18The hapless Birmingham City 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from DOWNING fell just over.
23CELINA hoofed the ball wide from the edge of the box.
29CELINA receives a yellow card for a bad challenge.
38A strike from CELINA held little difficulty for VESIC.
40A wonderful save prevented BRAITHWAITE from scoring a lovely goal.
41GOAL!! A shot from WILSON bobbled through a ruck of players and rolled past the unsighted PENNY. (2-1 Birmingham City)
42A corner bobbled toward who forced the ball inches over.
 
52CELINA beat MOXEY and drilled the ball to who fumbled his shot wide.
58GOAL!! A Tranmere Rovers counter-attack allowed JAVI GARCÍA to setup CELINA with a simple goal. (2-2)
60WILSON headed wide.
61A twenty yard shot from WILSON caused the Tranmere Rovers 'keeper little difficulty.
61MARCOS ALONSO waltzed round VAN DER HOORN and flicked a weak shot past the post.
62GOAL!! A cross from BOGA was nodded away by JAVI GARCÍA only for BRAITHWAITE to volley the ball back into the box for WILSON to force into the net. (3-2 Birmingham City)
63A penalty box meleé resulted in tapping a low shot over.
77A pin-point pass was collected by STEPHENS and his right foot shot went narrowly over.
79WILSON ran onto a great ball from VOLLAND but fumbled his shot wide of the goal.
82BRAITHWAITE rushed a simple chance.
83HUSEKLEPP worked the ball to OOSTERWIJK, collected his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
85Uncertainty in the Birmingham City defence enabled to crack the ball wide.
90MARCOS ALONSO shot wide.