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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 27 (setup 4, season 35)
Birmingham City
v.
Wrexham
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
8
Overall form:
Home form:
Milos VESIC717JOEL Dinis Castro PEREIRA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Maxime COLIN727Joe RAFFERTY
George FRIEND3Andy ROBERTSON
Ivan SUNJIC4Dominik FRIESER
Nathaniel PHILLIPS75Aaron HAYDEN
Jake CLARKE-SALTER66Neil TAYLOR
Juninho BACUNA7Pedro LEÓN Sánchez Gil
Tahith CHONG87Scott ARFIELD
Troy DEENEY897Odion Jude IGHALO
Lukas JUTKIEWICZ10Stephen QUINN
Scott HOGAN11George Alexandru PUSCAS
Manager
Marc ROBERTS12Reece HALL-JOHNSON
Zach JEACOCK13Mark HOWARD
Jobe BELLINGHAM146Stuart BEAVON
Keyendrah SIMMONDS15Anthony FORDE
Nico GORDON16Dior ANGUS

Birmingham City 2 Wrexham 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 23,879, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Clive PENTON 6½)
19 Chong, 58 PhillipsScorers12 Arfield
Substitutions80 Quinn <=> Beavon
Sendings off
88 ChongBookings15 Ighalo
4Corners3
9Fouls9
6Offsides5
6Shots on4
8Shots off9
14Total shots13
4Shots saved3
49%Possession51%
Man of the match: Troy DEENEY
2A weak shot from SUNJIC bounced agonisingly wide.
3A right foot effort from FRIEND was saved by the 'keeper.
7BACUNA was put clear by CLARKE-SALTER and he pulled away from the 'keeper but rammed his shot wide.
9HOGAN beat two Wrexham players and drove a shot wide.
12GOAL!! A poor clearance fell to ROBERTSON who sliced a shot goalward, luckily ARFIELD was on hand to blast the ball in off the post. (1-0 Wrexham)
15IGHALO booked for arguing with the referee.
17A free-kick from ARFIELD raced just wide.
19GOAL!! A thirty yard free-kick was expertly fired into the roof of the net by CHONG. (1-1)
23RAFFERTY brought the ball past COLIN and flicked a weak shot over.
24A penalty box scramble resulted in ARFIELD driving a low shot over.
27IGHALO booted the ball wide from the edge of the box.
35CHONG rushed a simple chance.
39A corner was collected by ARFIELD who flicked the ball just beyond the far post.
 
58GOAL!! A mishit CHONG shot was collected by PHILLIPS who made no mistake from just inside the area. (2-1 Birmingham City)
66The hapless JOEL PEREIRA could only watch as a backpass from LEÓN dropped just over.
72A cross from CHONG left BACUNA in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
73A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled IGHALO to hammer an effort inches wide.
76FRIESER made space on the left and touched the ball to QUINN who rasped the ball over.
80HOGAN headed wide.
81A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
85ARFIELD beat CHONG and flicked the ball to PUSCAS who toe-poked his shot wide.
88PENTON books CHONG.