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6¹ GOAL!! After some patient play on the right TROSSARD came inside and flicked the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Birmingham City) 12¹ BEN SEGHIR scuffed an easy chance. 13¹ A good effort from BERGWIJN scraped the outside of the post. 17¹ GOAL!! After being forced wide BEN SEGHIR was able to drive the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (2-0 Birmingham City) 28¹ GOAL!! A great ball from BERGWIJN left LUÍS SEMEDO in the clear, he made the Birmingham City 'keeper commit himself before knocking the ball to HARDIE to score. (2-1 Birmingham City) 33¹ A free-kick from TROSSARD went over. 36¹ GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by the 'keeper, AÏT-NOURI was first to the loose ball and played the ball to TROSSARD to tuck home. (3-1 Birmingham City) 45¹ BERGWIJN touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 48¹ A twenty-five yard shot from SØRLOTH caused the 'keeper little difficulty. 1² The hapless Exeter City 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from FRANCIS fell just over. 6² A good ball from BATES on the left was collected by BERGWIJN who sliced his effort just wide. 9² A penalty box scramble resulted in TROSSARD driving a low shot wide. 14² A poor shot from SØRLOTH rolled agonisingly wide. 17² GOAL!! TROSSARD brought the ball forward, looked up and stroked a shot into the Exeter City net. (4-1 Birmingham City) 25² BEN SEGHIR beat McMILLAN and whacked the ball to FRANCISCO CONCEIÇÃO who toe-poked his shot wide. 32² MASON yellow cards FRANCIS for dangerous play against TROSSARD. 33² A shot from LUÍS SEMEDO held no problem for the 'keeper. 38² TROSSARD stroked an easy chance past the lefthand post. 39² LE NORMAND flicked a left foot shot over from twenty-five yards out. 40² A accurate pass fell to BATES and his right foot shot flew narrowly wide. 42² BEN SEGHIR was put clear by FRANCISCO CONCEIÇÃO and he stepped inside the 'keeper but drilled his shot just beyond the near post. 47² TROSSARD ran onto a wonderful ball from DIOGO DALOT but hit his effort wide of the goal.

Exeter City   League position: - Home league form: LLXX Overall league form: LLLLWXLX Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Sol BRYNN 5  1 6  DJordje PETROVIC David BATES 5½ 2 7½ José DIOGO DALOT Dylan WILLIAMS 6½ 3 7½ Rayan AÏT-NOURI Jack AITCHISON 7  4 7½ Robin LE NORMAND Connor TAYLOR 6½ 5 7  Cristian ROMERO Fraser HORSFALL 5½ 6 8  Joachim ANDERSEN Erdal RAKIP 6½ 7 8  FRANCISCO Fernando CONCEIÇÃO (c)Steven BERGWIJN 7  8 8  Eliesse BEN SEGHIR(c) (p)Ryan HARDIE 6½ 9 7½ Martín ZUBIMENDI(p) (f)Ed FRANCIS 6  10 7  Alexander SØRLOTH(f) LUÍS Hemir SEMEDO 6  11 7½ Leandro TROSSARD Manager K R Ilmari NISKANEN    12    ILIAS Akhomach Gary WOODS    13    Matej KOVÁR Theo VASSELL    14    Noham KAMARA Caleb WATTS    15    Sander BERGE Jack McMILLAN 6½ 16    Tyler DIBLING

Birmingham City   League position: 3 Away league form: WWWX Overall league form: XWWWWWWX Formation: 3-5-2

Statistics

Exeter City 1 Birmingham City 4 (Half-time: 1-3, Attendance: 8,680, Stadium: St.James Park, Referee: Lee Mason 6) Hardie 28¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Trossard 6¹, Ben Seghir 17¹, Trossard 36¹, Trossard 17² RakipóMcMillan 12²       Francis 32²   7 4 14 5 8 21 3 6 4 18 7 24 2 0 39% 61% ¶ Man of the match: Joachim Andersen ¶