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Commentary
An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of SELVIK by MAY.
GRAHAM beat TRIANTIS and blasted the ball to COLIN who hit his shot wide.
A pin-point pass bobbled toward CRNAC and his right foot effort went narrowly over.
A shot from CRNAC was smothered by the 'keeper.
A cross from CRNAC left SPENCE in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
HOGAN worked the ball to GRAHAM, JUTKIEWICZ collected his pass and nodded the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
10¹GOAL!! A short backpass by ROBERTS enabled CRNAC to run in and hammer the ball past SELVIK. (1-0 Newport County)
22¹A good ball from JUTKIEWICZ on the left found FRIEND who mishit his effort just beyond the far post.
23¹BELLINGHAM headed just beyond the far post.
26¹SELVIK was able to palm clear a weak shot from SPENCE.
29¹A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
32¹GOAL!! A great run from JAMES gave BELLINGHAM space on the right and HOGAN poked in his accurate pass. (1-1)
38¹MAY shot over.
43¹The motionless SELVIK was all agog as a backpass from GRAHAM dropped just over.
JAMES ran onto a delightful ball from WILLIAMS but fired his effort wide of the righthand post.
18²The Birmingham City 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from FIORINI.
19²COLIN headed the ball wide from the edge of the box.
23²GOAL!! A long goal-kick from TRIANTIS caught the Birmingham City defence square and MAY ran on to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (2-1 Newport County)
27²The ref yellow cards GRAHAM.
30²A good effort from AKPOM scraped the outside of the righthand post.
43²A free-kick from HOGAN flew inches wide.
45²The 'keeper was able to claw away an amazing effort.

 
Newport County
 
League position: 14
Home league form: WXLW
Overall league form: LWXLLWWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Kristoffer KLAESSON1Egil SELVIK
(c)Luke AYLING2Maxime COLIN(c)
Djed SPENCE3George FRIEND
Ilias CHAIR4Jobe BELLINGHAM
Nectarios TRIANTIS5Nico GORDON
Darryl LACHMAN6Marc ROBERTS
Ante CRNAC7Josh WILLIAMS
Lewis FIORINI8Jordan GRAHAM
(p)Alfie MAY9Lukas JUTKIEWICZ(p)
(f)Yuki OHASHI10Jordan JAMES(f)
Chuba AKPOM11Scott HOGAN
Manager
Miguel BRAU  12  Niall HUGGINS
Shamal GEORGE  13  Milos VESIC
Nathan TJOE-A-ON14Marcel OAKLEY
Matthew SORINOLA  15  Ivan SUNJIC
Courtney BAKER-RICHARDSON  16  Juninho BACUNA
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 6
Away league form: WLLW
Overall league form: XWLWLWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Newport County 2 Birmingham City 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 8,262, Stadium: Rodney Parade, Referee: Rob Styles 5½)

Crnac 10¹, May 23²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Hogan 32¹
LachmanóTjoe-A-On 24²ColinóOakley 34²
  
 Graham 27²
65
48
24
94
76
1610
63
48%52%
Man of the match: Ante Crnac