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Commentary
A great effort from WAN-BISSAKA scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
TILLMAN made space on the left and touched the ball to MINTEH who touched the ball over.
10¹SWEDBERG beat a number of Birmingham City players and fired a shot wide.
13¹A weak strike from EDWARDS trickled agonisingly wide.
22¹TILLMAN snapped at a simple chance.
24¹A shot from SOLANKE held no problem for the Newcastle United 'keeper.
26¹GOAL!! A mishit clearance fell to BAAS who scuffed a shot goalward, luckily MYKOLENKO was on hand to volley the ball into the roof of the net. (1-0 Birmingham City)
36¹A accurate pass fell to SOLANKE and his left foot shot flew narrowly over.
37¹GOAL!! A mishit SOLANKE shot found TILLMAN who made no mistake from just outside the area. (2-0 Birmingham City)
42¹A free-kick from TILLMAN went just wide.
A neatly crafted pass from EDWARDS was hit goalbound by ANSU FATI only for the 'keeper to claw away.
KOVACIC chipped the ball to MINTEH who headed it inches wide.
The referee books BAAS.
17²ANSU FATI stabbed a simple chance past the righthand post.
23²MARTIAL's shot was well saved by the Birmingham City 'keeper.
24²SOLANKE headed inches wide.
24²A good ball from BAAS on the right fell to SOLANKE who sliced his shot wide.
25²MOUKOKO nodded the ball wide from just inside the area.
26²MINTEH was put clear by SAIBARI and he nutmegged the Newcastle United 'keeper but glanced his shot wide.
27²A corner found TETE who fired an effort just beyond the far post.
30²MARTIAL receives a yellow card by PENN for a late tackle.
33²The ref books NUSA for violent conduct against EDWARDS.
35²Uncertainty in the Newcastle United defence enabled MOUKOKO to volley the ball over.
41²The motionless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from TETE dropped just wide.
44²A header by WAN-BISSAKA at the near post was comfortably collected by the Birmingham City 'keeper.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 4
Home league form: WXWL
Overall league form: LOWWXWWL
Formation: 4-2-3-1
Line-ups
Dean HENDERSON1ARNAU TENAS Ureña
Kenny TETE2Aaron WAN-BISSAKA
Vitaliy MYKOLENKO3RENAN Augusto LODI
PABLO TORRE Carral4Georginio WIJNALDUM(c)
Youri BAAS5Giacomo FATICANTI
TOTI6Williot SWEDBERG
Yankuba MINTEH7Marcus EDWARDS
(c)Mateo KOVACIC8Anthony MARTIAL
(p)Dominic SOLANKE9Patrik SCHICK(p)
Ismael SAIBARI10Khalil FAYAD(f)
(f)Malik TILLMAN11ANSU FATI
Luke MURRAYManager
Festy EBOSELE  12  Raúl MORO
Maarten VANDEVOORDT  13  KAYKY da Silva
Kacper URBANSKI  14Harvey WHITE
Antonio NUSA15  TOMÁS do Lago ESTEVES
Youssoufa MOUKOKO16  Emrehan GEDIKLI
 
Newcastle United
 
League position: 21
Away league form: LLXL
Overall league form: LLWLLWXL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 2 Newcastle United 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 30,046, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Andy Penn 5½)

Mykolenko 26¹, Tillman 37¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
TillmanóNusa 25², SolankeóMoukoko 25²FayadóWhite 10²
  
Baas 8², Nusa 33²Martial 30²
24
1210
21
33
115
148
13
57%43%
Man of the match: Pablo Torre Carral