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1¹ GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed BEN SLIMANE to play the ball to BAYO who fired a looping shot into the net. (1-0 Salisbury) 4¹ GOAL!! A dubious penalty was awarded to Salisbury, after ISCO had fouled PÉPÉ which BAYO comfortably converted. (2-0 Salisbury) 5¹ The 'keeper was able to block a wicked shot. 7¹ GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of SAHRAOUI who shot the ball past the helpless Birmingham City 'keeper. (3-0 Salisbury) 18¹ MAKSIMOVIC beat a number of Salisbury players and slammed a golden opportunity over. 26¹ A great save prevented ISCO from scoring a great goal. 30¹ GOAL!! An imaginative SAHRAOUI played a delightful ball down the middle to BARTRA who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (4-0 Salisbury) 34¹ BAYO nutmegged IKER LOSADA but nudged the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 0² Uncertainty in the Birmingham City defence enabled BARTRA to volley the ball over. 1² A shot from ISCO was smothered by the Salisbury 'keeper. 5² SAHRAOUI drove a looping shot over the bar from thirty yards out. 9² BAYO made space on the left and dragged the ball to SAHRAOUI who clipped the ball wide. 11² GOAL!! As PÉPÉ was attempting to hold back MAKSIMOVIC the ball dropped to IKER LOSADA who nudged the ball into the net. (4-1 Salisbury) 20² SAHRAOUI snapped at a simple chance. 22² IKER LOSADA knocked the ball to KEANE who forced it inches over. 25² A late tackle on SAHRAOUI by ALARIO results in a booking. 27² A corner fell to SAHRAOUI who turned the ball wide. 32² BEN SLIMANE shot over. 33² A shot from ALARIO held little difficulty for MERT. 35² A useful ball from JOAN JORDÁN on the right was collected by IKER LOSADA who sliced his shot over the bar. 38² A free-kick from BATAILLE floated inches over. 41² A tame strike from ISCO trickled agonisingly wide.

Birmingham City   League position: 23 Home league form: LWXL Overall league form: LLWWLXXL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Carl RUSHWORTH 4½ 1 6  MERT Günok(c) Enrico DEL PRATO 7½ 2 6½ Jelle BATAILLE Dylan WILLIAMS 6½ 3 7  Nicola MURRU Nemanja MAKSIMOVIC 6½ 4 6½ Anis BEN SLIMANE Michael KEANE 7  5 8  Marc BARTRA Maksim PASKOTSI 6½ 6 7½ PAULO André OLIVEIRA JOAN JORDÁN Moreno 8  7 7½ Nicolas PÉPÉ (c)ISCO 6½ 8 7  Osame SAHRAOUI (p)Lucas ALARIO 6½ 9 7  Mohamed BAYO(p) (f)IKER LOSADA Aragunde 6  10 6  Dávid STRELEC(f) Josh COBURN 6  11 7  Ante REBIC Manager Diego DEMME    12    Sotiris ALEXANDROPOULOS Luigi SEPE    13    Jonas OMLIN Kevin LONG    14    ABDÜLKADIR Ömür Jackson TCHATCHOUA    15    EMRE Demir Bailey RICE    16    Mike TRÉSOR

Salisbury   League position: 21 Away league form: LLWW Overall league form: LLLWOLXW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Birmingham City 1 Salisbury 4 (Half-time: 0-4, Attendance: 29,986, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Graham Horwood 5½) Iker Losada 11² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Bayo 1¹, Bayo 4¹ (pen), Sahraoui 7¹, Bartra 30¹         Alario 25²   4 8 12 5 6 6 6 8 4 8 10 16 5 2 42% 58% ¶ Man of the match: Joan Jordán Moreno ¶