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Commentary
ALTAY dived to his left to save a lovely shot from Birmingham City's FRIEND.
NICO was put clear by HUME and he turned SELVIK but struck his shot over the bar.
The ref books HOGAN.
CHONG worked the ball to BELLINGHAM, GORDON collected his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of the Stoke City 'keeper.
A free-kick from JOHNSON went just wide.
12¹A wonderful save prevented JOHNSON from scoring a lovely goal.
24¹GONÇALO RAMOS made space on the left and touched the ball to KONATÉ who clipped the ball wide.
30¹A thirty yard shot from HUME caused the 'keeper no problem.
34¹A shot from GONÇALO RAMOS held no problem for the 'keeper.
37¹GOAL!! A deep cross from JAMES on the right was nodded home by SUNJIC at the far post. (1-0 Birmingham City)
38¹GOAL!! A short clearance fell to JOHNSON who sliced a shot goalward, luckily GONÇALO RAMOS was on hand to hit the ball into the net. (1-1)
The motionless Birmingham City 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from GORDON dropped just wide.
A tame shot from DÍAZ rolled agonisingly wide.
18²WILLIAMS knocked the ball to CHONG who fired it over the bar.
23²JOHNSON headed over.
24²A accurate pass fell to JOHNSON and his right foot effort raced narrowly wide.
27²A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming Stoke City 'keeper.
34²HOGAN sent off for a bad foul he had already been booked earlier in the match.
34²A corner found DÍAZ who touched an effort over.
36²A brilliant strike from CHONG was dealt with by a good stop from the Stoke City 'keeper.
37²RAMSEY booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
39²GOAL!! An energetic RAMSEY ran down the left wing and pulled the ball back for GONÇALO RAMOS to tuck home. (2-1 Stoke City)

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 5
Home league form: WWWW
Overall league form: WWWWWWLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Egil SELVIK1ALTAY Bayindir
(c)Maxime COLIN2Trai HUME
George FRIEND3Ben JOHNSON
Jobe BELLINGHAM4NICO
Nico GORDON5Nathan COLLINS
Jordan JAMES6Ibrahima KONATÉ(c)
Josh WILLIAMS7Brennan JOHNSON
Tahith CHONG8Jacob RAMSEY(f)
(p)Óscar ESTUPIÑÁN9GONÇALO Matias RAMOS(p)
(f)Ivan SUNJIC10Oscar GLOUKH
Scott HOGAN11Luis DÍAZ
ManagerLuke MURRAY
Marc ROBERTS  12  Martin VITÍK
Milos VESIC  13  Sven BOTMAN
Lukas JUTKIEWICZ14  Jon ROWE
Marcel OAKLEY  15  Anthony ELANGA
Juninho BACUNA  16Orri ÓSKARSSON
 
Stoke City
 
League position: 1
Away league form: XWXW
Overall league form: WXWWXWWW
Formation: 4-2-3-1

Statistics
Birmingham City 1 Stoke City 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 29,994, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Graham Scott 7½)

Sunjic 37¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Gonçalo Ramos 38¹, Gonçalo Ramos 39²
FriendóJutkiewicz 21²GloukhóÓskarsson 25²
Hogan 34² 
Hogan 3¹ 
33
1011
313
79
213
922
67
48%52%
Man of the match: Jacob Ramsey