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Commentary
DEL PRATO fluffed a simple chance.
GOAL!! As KEANE was trying to hold back FRED the ball dropped to BARRY who fired the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Manchester City)
A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing Manchester City 'keeper.
A free-kick from AJORQUE flew just beyond the near post.
10¹A cross from FRED left BARRY in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
16¹SEPE booked for arguing with the referee.
17¹A penalty box scramble resulted in VERTONGHEN cracking a low shot over.
19¹GOAL!! A deep cross by DEL PRATO was met by ISCO who galloped in to score. (1-1)
21¹A wonderful save prevented KONDOGBIA from scoring a lovely goal.
23¹GOAL!! A terrible clearance fell to AJORQUE who sliced a shot goalward, luckily ISCO was on hand to thump the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Birmingham City)
24¹BARRY ran onto a delightful ball from FRED but hit his shot wide of the goal.
28¹A good ball from MUNIAIN on the left found AGUILAR who scuffed his shot just beyond the near post.
39¹A lovely effort from ISCO scraped the outside of the righthand post.
39¹A poor strike from BARRY rolled agonisingly wide.
44¹Uncertainty in the Manchester City defence enabled AJORQUE to blast an effort wide.
13²MUNIAIN booted the ball wide from the edge of the box.
24²MUNIAIN beat a number of Birmingham City players and thundered a shot over.
29²FRED knocked the ball to VERTONGHEN who fired it inches over.
33²GOAL!! FRED drove a powerful shot against the upright with BARRY cracking in the rebound. (2-2)
35²GOAL!! After a fine build-up IKER LOSADA drove the ball past MONTIPÒ. (3-2 Birmingham City)
40²A shot from ISCO was smothered by the 'keeper.
41²MUNIAIN shot over.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 20
Home league form: WWLW
Overall league form: LWLWLLWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Luigi SEPE1Lorenzo MONTIPÒ
Enrico DEL PRATO2Ruben AGUILAR
Dylan WILLIAMS3Jan VERTONGHEN(c)
Giovani LO CELSO4Maximilian ARNOLD
Michael KEANE5Duje CALETA-CAR
Kevin LONG6Tyrone MINGS
JEONG Sang-bin7FRED
ISCO8Iker MUNIAIN
(p)Ludovic AJORQUE9Thierno BARRY(p)
(f)Lucas ALARIO10Geoffrey KONDOGBIA(f)
(c)PEDRO Eliezer11Nikola KRSTOVIC
Manager
Nemanja MAKSIMOVIC  12  Mamadou SAKHO
Carl RUSHWORTH  13  Illan MESLIER
JOAN JORDÁN Moreno  14Remo FREULER
IKER LOSADA Aragunde15  Amadou HAIDARA
Ryan ANDREWS  16  Florian GRILLITSCH
 
Manchester City
 
League position: 14
Away league form: LLLL
Overall league form: LWLLWLLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 3 Manchester City 2
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 34,721, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Andy Penn 5½)

Isco 19¹, Isco 23¹, Iker Losada 35²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Barry 3¹, Barry 33²
AjorqueóIker Losada 34²FredóFreuler 36²
  
Sepe 16¹ 
33
93
26
85
810
1615
43
46%54%
Man of the match: Duje Caleta-Car