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Commentary
1¹A header by CANTWELL at the far post was comfortably collected by JAOUEN.
4¹GOAL!! A long clearance by the Birmingham City 'keeper beat the Oxford United defence and BELLINGHAM drove the ball beyond the oncoming Oxford United 'keeper. (1-0 Birmingham City)
6¹A weak shot from ESTUPIÑÁN trickled agonisingly wide.
10¹O'MAHONY made space on the right and touched the ball to CANTWELL who clipped the ball wide.
11¹CANTWELL's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Birmingham City crossbar.
19¹The 'keeper managed to claw away a powerful effort.
20¹A twenty yard drive from BELLINGHAM caused the 'keeper no problem.
21¹O'MAHONY drove a right foot shot wide from long range.
22¹The Oxford United 'keeper was able to block a poor shot from BELLINGHAM.
23¹A strike from CANTWELL held little difficulty for the 'keeper.
28¹A neatly crafted cross from CHONG was drove goalbound by SATPAEV only for the Oxford United 'keeper to palm clear.
32¹A corner found ESTUPIÑÁN who forced the ball over.
38¹CHONG kicked the ball wide from just outside the area.
41¹An inswinging corner was turned into the arms of the Oxford United 'keeper by CHONG.
2²BELLINGHAM snapped at a simple chance.
7²The Oxford United 'keeper blocked a lovely strike from CHONG.
10²A penalty box scramble resulted in STURGE tapping the ball over.
11²DURANVILLE's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
13²BRANNAGAN beat DURANVILLE and fired the ball to CANTWELL who fired his shot wide.
14²A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing JAOUEN.
27²CANTWELL shot over.
34²BRANNAGAN raced past DURANVILLE but fired the ball into the arms of JAOUEN.
38²An exceptional effort from CHONG scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
41²DURANVILLE was put clear by JAMES and he beat the Oxford United 'keeper but thrust his shot over the bar.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WXLO
Overall league form: WWXLLXWL
Formation: 4-1-3-2
Line-ups
Ewen JAOUEN7½17 Fraser FORSTER(c)
Maxime COLIN7 27½Anfernee DIJKSTEEL
Zak STURGE8 37 Andrija VUKCEVIC
Jordan JAMES8 47 Cameron BRANNAGAN
Veljko MILOSAVLJEVIC6½57½Andrew OMOBAMIDELE
El Chadaille BITSHIABU6 66 Sondre LANGÅS
Julien DURANVILLE7 76½Lynden GOOCH
Tahith CHONG7 87 Todd CANTWELL
(p)Óscar ESTUPIÑÁN6 96 Mark O'MAHONY(p)
(c,f)Jobe BELLINGHAM7½106½Lewis BATE(f)
Dastan SATPAEV7 116 RÚBEN da Rocha RODRIGUES
Philip ThorneManager
Jannik SCHUSTER  12  Jayden FEVRIER
Egil SELVIK  13  Ivor PANDUR
Divine MUKASA  14  Billy BODIN
Shea LACEY  156 Mads ANDERSEN
Juninho BACUNA  16  Lewis MILLER
 
Oxford United
 
League position: 10
Away league form: LLWW
Overall league form: WLXLWWWX
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 1 Oxford United 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 25,335, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Phil Crossley 7½)

Bellingham 4¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
 BateóAndersen 26²
  
  
34
186
44
85
74
159
75
51%49%
Man of the match: Jordan James