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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 43 (setup 4, season 35)
Crewe Alexandra
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
Home form:
Ben GARRATT1Milos VESIC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
11
Overall form:
Home form:
Yan VALERY827Maxime COLIN
Dimitris GIANNOULIS3George FRIEND
Tom LOWERY47Ivan SUNJIC
Perry NG85Nathaniel PHILLIPS
Ryan NYAMBE66Jake CLARKE-SALTER
Jarrod BOWEN7Juninho BACUNA
Ben WOODBURN786Jordan GRAHAM
Jacob BROWN9Troy DEENEY
Josh MAGENNIS10Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Seán MAGUIRE711Scott HOGAN
Manager
Harlee DEAN12Jordan JAMES
Dave RICHARDS13Zach JEACOCK
LUIS Fernández Teijeiro14Odin BAILEY
Alex BRUCE15Marc ROBERTS
Owen DALE16Nico GORDON

Crewe Alexandra 5 Birmingham City 2
(Half-time: 4-0, Attendance: 9,848, Stadium: Gresty Road, Referee: Eddie ILDERTON 7½)
19 Bowen, 24 Maguire, 32 Woodburn, 41 Brown, 77og PhillipsScorers52 Deeney, 85 Phillips
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings56 Graham, 74 Clarke-Salter
2Corners2
8Fouls10
6Offsides2
6Shots on10
10Shots off10
16Total shots20
1Shots saved8
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Perry NG
6JUTKIEWICZ headed the ball wide from the edge of the box.
14MAGUIRE beat four Birmingham City players and slammed an effort just wide.
19GOAL!! A great solo effort from BOWEN who beat two defenders before rocketing the ball into the roof of the net. (1-0 Crewe Alexandra)
23A great effort from FRIEND scraped the upright.
24GOAL!! A wonderful run from NG gave BOWEN space on the right and MAGUIRE rifled in his accurate pass. (2-0 Crewe Alexandra)
31WOODBURN shot over.
32GOAL!! After LOWERY was bundled over the referee waved play-on and WOODBURN went on to comfortably score. (3-0 Crewe Alexandra)
41GOAL!! A GIANNOULIS run down the left resulted in a nice cross for BROWN to fire in. (4-0 Crewe Alexandra)
43SUNJIC ran onto a wonderful ball from BACUNA but fired his shot wide.
 
47A free-kick from GRAHAM floated over.
49A penalty box scramble resulted in MAGUIRE driving a low shot over.
50JUTKIEWICZ worked the ball to HOGAN, DEENEY gathered his pass and hoofed the ball within easy reach of GARRATT.
51MAGENNIS made space on the left and dragged the ball to GIANNOULIS who touched the ball wide.
52GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with DEENEY rocketing the ball into the net. (4-1 Crewe Alexandra)
56GRAHAM booked for gamesmanship.
57SUNJIC beat GIANNOULIS and flicked the ball to DEENEY who pulled his shot wide.
61MAGUIRE brought the ball round PHILLIPS and poked a weak shot over.
61JUTKIEWICZ's shot was well saved by the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper.
62JUTKIEWICZ was put clear by DEENEY and he stepped inside GARRATT but glanced his shot wide.
74CLARKE-SALTER cautioned for a poor foul on NG.
77GOAL!! A corner was fired into the penalty box and PHILLIPS fumbled the ball into his own net.
85GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by GARRATT, GRAHAM was first to the loose ball and played the ball to PHILLIPS to crack in. (5-2 Crewe Alexandra)