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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 33 (setup 4, season 34)
Crewe Alexandra
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
11
Overall form:
Home form:
Bailey PEACOCK-FARRELL71Milos VESIC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
Home form:
Yan VALERY72Maxime COLIN
Philip HEISE837Marc ROBERTS
Tom LOWERY4Jérémie BOGA
Ryan NYAMBE5Jake CLARKE-SALTER
Perry NG766Nico GORDON
Jarrod BOWEN77Ivan SUNJIC
Charlie KIRK68Marko ARNAUTOVIC
Jacob BROWN79Kemar ROOFE
Josh MAGENNIS106Lewis GRABBAN
Seán MAGUIRE116Scott HOGAN
Manager
LUIS Fernández Teijeiro12Troy DEENEY
Ben GARRATT13Zach JEACOCK
Owen DALE14Gary GARDNER
Cheick KEITA15Jefferson Antonio MONTERO Vite
Rolando AARONS16IVÁN Sánchez Aguayo

Crewe Alexandra 2 Birmingham City 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 9,853, Stadium: Gresty Road, Referee: Colin WEBSTER 5½)
12 Brown, 19 BrownScorers11 Roofe
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings15 Boga, 48 Grabban, 55 Arnautovic
1Corners0
6Fouls15
2Offsides1
6Shots on2
8Shots off10
14Total shots12
4Shots saved1
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Philip HEISE
1The Birmingham City 'keeper saved a glorious shot from BROWN.
10ROOFE ran onto a delightful ball from GRABBAN but fumbled his shot wide of the righthand post.
11GOAL!! After some steady play on the left ROOFE came inside and drilled the ball into the net. (1-0 Birmingham City)
12GOAL!! The Birmingham City 'keeper got into trouble with a backpass from GORDON and BROWN was able to stab the ball into the back of the net. (1-1)
15The ref yellow cards BOGA for a late tackle.
15BROWN drilled a right foot shot over from just outside the area.
19GOAL!! An outswinging corner nodded out by GRABBAN was fired home by BROWN. (2-1 Crewe Alexandra)
25A tame shot from GRABBAN rolled agonisingly wide.
26MAGUIRE beat BOGA and whacked the ball to BOWEN who pulled his shot wide.
27A penalty box meleé resulted in KIRK tapping the ball over.
29VALERY was put clear by LOWERY and he pulled away from the Birmingham City 'keeper but rammed his shot wide.
36A pin-point pass fell to ARNAUTOVIC and his left foot shot floated narrowly over.
40A lovely pass from MAGUIRE, was blasted goalbound by BROWN only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
44ROBERTS beat four Crewe Alexandra players and stroked a golden opportunity just wide.
 
48GRABBAN booked by the ref.
52Uncertainty in the Birmingham City defence enabled MAGUIRE to crack the ball inches over.
53A corner was collected by SUNJIC who flicked the ball over the bar.
55ARNAUTOVIC cautioned for a late challenge on NYAMBE.
58A great effort from HOGAN scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
64KIRK floated the ball to VALERY who headed it wide.
72A delightful save prevented ARNAUTOVIC from scoring a great goal.
90The hapless Birmingham City 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from CLARKE-SALTER fell just over.