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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 7 (setup 4, season 29)
Grimsby Town
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
James McKEOWN16Milos VESIC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
Home form:
Matthew CONNOLLY627Michael MORRISON
José Manuel CASADO Bizcocho3Jason LOWE
Bruno ZUCULINI848Stewart DOWNING
Steve COOK65Marc ROBERTS
Fernando Martin FORESTIERI6Carl JENKINSON
Jamie PATERSON777Craig GARDNER
Marc PUGH87Marko ARNAUTOVIC
Lukás MAGERA97Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Gaël BIGIRIMANA10Maikel KIEFTENBELD
Tommer HEMED116Ché ADAMS
Manager
John WELSH12Maxime COLIN
Sam RUSSELL13David STOCKDALE
Luke SUMMERFIELD14Jérémie BOGA
Joe PIGOTT156Isaac VASSELL
Adam ROONEY16Josh DACRES-COGLEY

Grimsby Town 2 Birmingham City 3
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 9,889, Stadium: Blundell Park, Referee: Thomas DRAGE 5½)
32 Pugh, 55 PughScorers45+2 Kieftenbeld, 57 Jutkiewicz, 88p Jutkiewicz
Substitutions89 Morrison <=> Vassell
66 HemedSendings off
8 Paterson, 10 McKeown, 24 Connolly, 24 Hemed, 65 Cook, 69 BigirimanaBookings
4Corners5
16Fouls10
11Offsides9
4Shots on4
6Shots off6
10Total shots10
1Shots saved1
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Bruno ZUCULINI
7ARNAUTOVIC beat two Grimsby Town players and blasted a great chance over.
8PATERSON receives a yellow card by the ref for a poor challenge.
10The ref yellow cards MCKEOWN for dangerous play against LOWE.
17The 'keeper dived to his right to save a lovely drive from Grimsby Town's PUGH.
24DRAGE books CONNOLLY.
24HEMED booked for arguing with the referee.
26A cross from GARDNER left ARNAUTOVIC in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.
32GOAL!! On the right wing CONNOLLY collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for PUGH to crack it into the roof of the net. (1-0 Grimsby Town)
39PUGH shot over.
44HEMED's shot beat the Birmingham City 'keeper but rebounded off the Birmingham City crossbar.
45+2GOAL!! A long ball from JENKINSON had the Grimsby Town defence back-pedalling and KIEFTENBELD made the most of the opportunity with a great goal. (1-1)
 
52MORRISON blasted a looping shot just wide from just outside the area.
55GOAL!! A great piece of skill from BIGIRIMANA gave MAGERA space on the right and PUGH rifled in his pin-point pass. (2-1 Grimsby Town)
57GOAL!! A JENKINSON run down the middle resulted in a nice cross for JUTKIEWICZ to fire in. (2-2)
62PUGH headed inches over.
65A late challenge on ARNAUTOVIC by COOK results in a booking.
66HEMED sent off for a high challenge.
69BIGIRIMANA booked.
77JUTKIEWICZ's shot was well saved by the Grimsby Town 'keeper.
81ROBERTS booted the ball wide from the edge of the box.
83ADAMS made space on the right and touched the ball to DOWNING who clipped the ball over.
88GOAL!! A foul on KIEFTENBELD inside the area gave Birmingham City a penalty which JUTKIEWICZ made look easy.