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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 18 (setup 4, season 28)
Bournemouth
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Artur BORUC16Milos VESIC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Simon FRANCIS528Michael MORRISON
DIEGO RICO Salguero836Marc ROBERTS
Lewis COOK46Stewart DOWNING
Ondrej CELUSTKA85Mike VAN DER HOORN
Tom CLARKE66Maxime COLIN
David BROOKS7Kevin VOLLAND
Ryan FRASER8Marko ARNAUTOVIC
Jermain DEFOE97Callum WILSON
Jordon IBE610Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Joshua KING116Jérémie BOGA
Manager
Aleksandar TONEV12Jason LOWE
Freddy HALL13David STOCKDALE
Mihai Alexandre DOBRE14Ché ADAMS
Emerson HYNDMAN615Maikel KIEFTENBELD
Joel LYNCH16Carl JENKINSON

Bournemouth 4 Birmingham City 1
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 10,626, Stadium: Dean Court Ground, Referee: Anthony TAYLOR 5½)
22 Diego Rico, 31 Celustka, 38 Fraser, 52 DefoeScorers45+1 Arnautovic
85 Francis <=> HyndmanSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings18 Colin
2Corners5
9Fouls25
6Offsides5
5Shots on4
10Shots off5
15Total shots9
1Shots saved2
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: Michael MORRISON
1A lovely effort from DEFOE scraped the outside of the post.
4A corner fell to FRANCIS who forced an effort over.
5DEFOE beat MORRISON and hit the ball to BROOKS who blasted his shot wide.
7A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled BROOKS to thump the ball inches over.
9A free-kick from DEFOE raced inches wide.
14ROBERTS headed inches wide.
16A pin-point pass bobbled toward FRANCIS and his looping effort raced narrowly over.
17VESIC saved a clever strike from DEFOE.
18A clinical tackle gets COLIN a yellow card.
19KING hoofed the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
21FRANCIS brought the ball round DOWNING and rattled a weak shot over the bar.
22GOAL!! A mishit DEFOE shot bobbled toward DIEGO RICO who made no mistake from just inside the area. (1-0 Bournemouth)
24A wonderful save prevented WILSON from scoring an exceptional goal.
31GOAL!! A clever set-piece enabled CELUSTKA to drill the ball home. (2-0 Bournemouth)
35A drive from WILSON seemed a certain goal but the Bournemouth 'keeper managed to fist the ball away.
38GOAL!! A Bournemouth counter-attack allowed KING to setup FRASER with a simple goal. (3-0 Bournemouth)
40A poor shot from DOWNING bounced agonisingly wide.
45+1GOAL!! A cross from DOWNING was nodded away by CLARKE only for BOGA to fire the ball back into the box for ARNAUTOVIC to force over the line. (3-1 Bournemouth)
 
48A good ball from COLIN on the right bobbled toward ARNAUTOVIC who mishit his shot over the bar.
52GOAL!! A shot from DEFOE which the Birmingham City 'keeper was able to block seemed to have crossed the line and the ref awarded the goal. (4-1 Bournemouth)
61BROOKS chipped the ball to DEFOE who headed it just beyond the far post.
65ARNAUTOVIC shot wide.
70BOGA fluffed an easy chance.
75FRASER flicked a deadly shot wide from just outside the area.
76A strike from WILSON held little difficulty for the Bournemouth 'keeper.