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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 1 (setup 4, season 27)
Rushden&Diamonds
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Bogdan LOBONT718Jon STEWART
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Shkodran MUSTAFI27Juan Alberto Andreu Alvarado, MELLI
Alexander BUTTNER73Dean MOXEY
Jake LIVERMORE84Stewart DOWNING
Emanuel POGATETZ57José Manuel Flores Moreno, CHICO
RAFAEL Pereira da Silva766Mike VAN DER HOORN
Leon BRITTON77Kevin VOLLAND
Stephen HUNT78Marko ARNAUTOVIC
Mauro BOSELLI79Callum WILSON
KI Sung-yueng106Luis Antonio JIMÉNEZ Garcés
Georgios SAMARAS116David COTTERILL
Manager
Andrew TAYLOR12Stephen GLEESON
Alan JULIAN13Maxime COLIN
John SUTTON14Luke MURPHY
Billy SHARP15Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
Massimo MACCARONE16Carlton COLE

Rushden&Diamonds 4 Birmingham City 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 6,502, Stadium: Nene Park, Referee: Kenny STAMATOPOULOS 7)
7 Hunt, 60 Samaras, 79 Ki, 84 KiScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off90 Volland
50 KiBookings48 Jiménez, 59 Cotterill, 65 Volland
4Corners7
4Fouls14
13Offsides7
8Shots on3
10Shots off8
18Total shots11
4Shots saved3
50%Possession50%
Man of the match: Jon STEWART
5A cross from DOWNING left JIMÉNEZ in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
7GOAL!! An imaginative LIVERMORE played a delightful ball down the right to HUNT who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Rushden&Diamonds)
11DOWNING played the ball to VAN DER HOORN who flicked it over.
13A twenty yard drive from WILSON caused LOBONT little difficulty.
15COTTERILL worked the ball to VOLLAND, CHICO controlled his cross and nodded the ball within easy reach of LOBONT.
36A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing Birmingham City 'keeper.
42BOSELLI waltzed past MOXEY and flicked a weak shot well wide.
43MUSTAFI placed a left foot shot over from just outside the area.
45A header by BOSELLI at the near post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper.
 
47A shot from WILSON held no problem for the 'keeper.
48JIMÉNEZ given a yellow card by the ref.
50KI booked for a clinical challenge on VOLLAND.
59A poor foul on BRITTON by COTTERILL results in a booking.
60GOAL!! A short corner was chipped out to SAMARAS who knocked the ball into the back of the net. (2-0 Rushden&Diamonds)
65The referee yellow cards VOLLAND for dangerous play against SAMARAS.
73A pin-point pass found HUNT and his deadly shot went narrowly over.
74A corner fell to COTTERILL who touched the ball inches wide.
79GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by the 'keeper, BUTTNER was first to the loose ball and floated the ball to KI to nudge in. (3-0 Rushden&Diamonds)
83The bemused 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from POGATETZ fell just over.
84GOAL!! A patient Rushden&Diamonds side were rewarded with a fierce shot from KI. (4-0 Rushden&Diamonds)
90STAMATOPOULOS gave VOLLAND a second yellow card for a clumsy tackle on HUNT.
90+1HUNT fluffed an easy chance.