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4¹ RUSHWORTH dived to his left to save a lovely drive from Chelsea's VAN DE BEEK. 7¹ MYKOLENKO headed wide. 28¹ CAIRNEY headed the ball wide from the edge of the box. 30¹ BORRÉ's header was well saved by the Birmingham City 'keeper. 34¹ CAIRNEY was put clear by PETAGNA and he dummied RUSHWORTH but drilled his shot just wide. 35¹ JEONG beat two Chelsea players and thundered a golden opportunity over the bar. 37¹ A great effort from AJORQUE scraped the outside of the lefthand post. 40¹ GOAL!! A shot from PETAGNA which the 'keeper managed to claw away was deemed over the line and MILLER gave the goal. (1-0 Chelsea) 42¹ GOAL!! A terrible clearance fell to DEL PRATO who sliced a shot goalward, luckily AJORQUE was on hand to crack the ball into the roof of the net. (1-1) 4² A penalty box meleé resulted in LO CELSO knocking a low shot over. 5² PETAGNA shot over. 16² A poor strike from AJORQUE rolled agonisingly wide. 19² GOAL!! An imaginative MYKOLENKO played a wonderful ball down the left to VAN DE BEEK who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (2-1 Chelsea) 20² AJORQUE flicked a simple chance past the far post. 27² A free-kick from KING went wide. 29² A corner found AJORQUE who touched the ball just wide. 30² AJORQUE rushed a simple chance. 36² VAN DE BEEK worked the ball to CARTER, KING gathered his pass and nodded the ball within easy reach of RUSHWORTH. 39² KING fired a right foot shot wide from twenty yards out. 40² AJORQUE chipped the ball to LO CELSO who forced it inches wide. 43² Uncertainty in the Chelsea defence enabled ISCO to fire an effort just wide. 45² A useful ball from TCHAPTCHET on the right found IKER LOSADA who scuffed his effort wide.

Birmingham City   League position: 21 Home league form: LLWL Overall league form: LLLWLLLL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Carl RUSHWORTH 6½ 1 6½ Alessio CRAGNO Enrico DEL PRATO 6½ 2 7½ Davide ZAPPACOSTA(c) Maksim PASKOTSI 6½ 3 6½ Vitaliy MYKOLENKO Giovani LO CELSO 7½ 4 7½ Mauro ARAMBARRI Michael KEANE 8  5 7  Filip HELANDER Allan TCHAPTCHET 6  6 6½ Hayden CARTER JEONG Sang-bin 7  7 7  Tom CAIRNEY (c)ISCO 6½ 8 6½ Joshua KING (p)Ludovic AJORQUE 6½ 9 6½ Andrea PETAGNA(p) (f)Nemanja MAKSIMOVIC 6½ 10 7½ Donny VAN DE BEEK(f) Lucas ALARIO 6½ 11 6  Rafael BORRÉ Manager Todd CANTWELL    12    Raúl DE TOMÁS Luigi SEPE    13    Cheick KEITA JOAN JORDÁN Moreno 6  14    Brandon WILLIAMS Bailey RICE    15    IRFAN CAN Kahveci IKER LOSADA Aragunde 6  16    Ben WHITEMAN

Chelsea   League position: 13 Away league form: LLXL Overall league form: WLLLWXWL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Birmingham City 1 Chelsea 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 24,692, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Nigel Miller 5½) Ajorque 42¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Petagna 40¹, van de Beek 19² AlarioóJoan Jordán 20², JeongóIker Losada 31²           4 4 7 14 1 5 2 6 13 11 15 17 1 4 47% 53% ¶ Man of the match: Michael Keane ¶