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Commentary
A fine ball from WILLIAMS on the left bobbled toward COLBACK who scuffed his shot wide.
13¹A great effort from COLBACK scraped the outside of the post.
20¹CONLON booked for a bad tackle.
24¹The Port Vale 'keeper was able to palm clear a poor shot from NDIAYE.
27¹The motionless PETROVIC could only watch as a backpass from BERGE dropped just over.
28¹A clever cross from NGOY was knocked goalbound by KITCHING only for PETROVIC to block.
40¹BISHOP dived to his left to block a fierce shot from Birmingham City's BEN SEGHIR.
43¹A delightful save prevented NDIAYE from scoring a good goal.
OSULA's shot beat PETROVIC but rebounded off the Birmingham City woodwork.
FRANCISCO CONCEIÇÃO worked the ball to DIOGO DALOT, NDIAYE collected his cross and kicked the ball within easy reach of BISHOP.
The 'keeper managed to block an amazing effort.
NGOY headed just beyond the near post.
GOAL!! A long ball from BERGE had the Port Vale defence back-pedalling and TROSSARD made the most of the opportunity with an exceptional goal. (1-0 Birmingham City)
10²A penalty box scramble resulted in TROSSARD cracking a low shot wide.
16²GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of TROSSARD who nudged the ball past the helpless 'keeper. (2-0 Birmingham City)
17²OSULA brought the ball past AÏT-NOURI and flicked a weak shot into the crowd.
20²TROSSARD's shot was well saved by BISHOP.
21²A mix up in the Port Vale defence enabled NDIAYE to blast the ball wide.
30²TROSSARD snapped at an easy chance.
35²COLBACK was put clear by SMITH and he beat the Birmingham City 'keeper but rammed his shot wide.
35²GOAL!! An imaginative CONLON played a delightful ball down the left to COLBACK who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (2-1 Birmingham City)
47²GOAL!! A long goal-kick from ANDERSEN caught the Port Vale defence square and FRANCISCO CONCEIÇÃO raced through to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (3-1 Birmingham City)

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: -
Home league form: WWLL
Overall league form: XWWLWWLL
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
DJordje PETROVIC1Nathan BISHOP
José DIOGO DALOT2Neco WILLIAMS
Rayan AÏT-NOURI3Jack COLBACK(c)
Sander BERGE4Tom CONLON
Mamadou SARR5Liam KITCHING
Joachim ANDERSEN6Nathan SMITH
FRANCISCO Fernando CONCEIÇÃO7David WORRALL
(c)Eliesse BEN SEGHIR8Liam MILLAR
(p)Aidan MORRIS9William OSULA(p)
(f)Iliman NDIAYE10Julien NGOY(f)
Leandro TROSSARD11Patrick SCHMIDT
K RManager
ILIAS Akhomach  12  Sam McCALLUM
Matej KOVÁR  13  Shamal GEORGE
James FORREST  14Tom NAYLOR
Maxime COLIN  15  Mipo ODUBEKO
Tyler DIBLING  16  James WILSON
 
Port Vale
 
League position: 8
Away league form: LXL-
Overall league form: WLWXXLXX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 3 Port Vale 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 29,938, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Lee Probert 5½)

Trossard 7², Trossard 16², Francisco Conceição 47²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Colback 35²
 SchmidtóNaylor 7²
  
 Conlon 20¹
313
610
31
104
78
1712
43
47%53%
Man of the match: Sander Berge