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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 30 (setup 4, season 35)
Tranmere Rovers
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Rúnar Alex RÚNARSSON1Milos VESIC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Dedryck BOYATA727Maxime COLIN
MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza37George FRIEND
Ryan YATES847Ivan SUNJIC
Derrick WILLIAMS757Nathaniel PHILLIPS
Jordan ZEMURA6Jake CLARKE-SALTER
Lukas RUPP77Juninho BACUNA
Bersant CELINA8Tahith CHONG
Dom CALVERT-LEWIN97Ike UGBO
Rostyn GRIFFITHS106Troy DEENEY
Alexis ALLART611Scott HOGAN
Manager
George RAY12Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Diego Alonso Roberto PENNY Váldez13Zach JEACOCK
Jonny SMITH14Jobe BELLINGHAM
Paul LEWIS15Jordan JAMES
Kane HEMMINGS16Gary GARDNER

Tranmere Rovers 4 Birmingham City 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 16,635, Stadium: Prenton Park, Referee: Anthony TAYLOR 5½)
18 Marcos Alonso, 27 Boyata, 50 Allart, 79 Marcos AlonsoScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
19 Rupp, 47 Griffiths, 71 WilliamsBookings88 Bacuna
1Corners3
17Fouls6
0Offsides3
6Shots on5
10Shots off6
16Total shots11
2Shots saved5
49%Possession51%
Man of the match: Ryan YATES
7A weak strike from BACUNA bounced agonisingly wide.
14RUPP flicked a simple chance past the righthand post.
18GOAL!! A neat one-two left MARCOS ALONSO clear and he made no mistake by expertly flicking the ball past the oncoming Birmingham City 'keeper. (1-0 Tranmere Rovers)
19RUPP booked by the ref for a clinical tackle.
25CALVERT-LEWIN hit a deadly shot inches wide from long range.
27GOAL!! Unlucky YATES hit the post before BOYATA stabbed the ball home as CLARKE-SALTER failed to clear. (2-0 Tranmere Rovers)
34CALVERT-LEWIN brought the ball past DEENEY and flicked a poor shot over the bar.
35A pin-point pass fell to DEENEY and his deadly effort went narrowly over.
 
47GRIFFITHS receives a yellow card for a high challenge.
48A shot from SUNJIC seemed a certain goal but RÚNARSSON managed to force the ball away.
50GOAL!! A short backpass by CLARKE-SALTER enabled ALLART to nip in and tuck the ball past VESIC. (3-0 Tranmere Rovers)
55A good effort from GRIFFITHS scraped the outside of the righthand post.
59A good ball from FRIEND on the left found CHONG who mishit his shot just beyond the far post.
60ALLART made space on the left and dragged the ball to CALVERT-LEWIN who clipped the ball over.
66A shot from FRIEND held no problem for RÚNARSSON.
68FRIEND fired the ball through a ruck of players but RÚNARSSON was a match for it as he dived to his left.
71A high foul on DEENEY by WILLIAMS results in a booking.
79GOAL!! After some steady play on the left MARCOS ALONSO came inside and flicked the ball into the top corner. (4-0 Tranmere Rovers)
84A penalty box scramble resulted in CELINA cracking a low shot over.
86GRIFFITHS's header was well saved by VESIC.
88BACUNA booked.
90+1A looping shot from UGBO was stopped by the 'keeper.