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Commentary
IBRAHIMOVIC made space on the right and dragged the ball to ROBINHO who rasped the ball over.
LAHM headed wide.
KALOU was put clear by RAKITIC and he nutmegged the 'keeper but glanced his shot over the bar.
GOAL!! After GERRARD was tripped FOY waved play-on and ROBINHO went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Liverpool)
10¹A tame strike from RAKITIC trickled agonisingly wide.
16¹IBRAHIMOVIC's shot beat GIVEN but rebounded off the Birmingham City crossbar.
18¹The referee yellow cards PUYOL for a high challenge.
19¹ROBINHO clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Birmingham City 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
22¹GIVEN saved a glorious shot from ALBIOL.
23¹A accurate pass bobbled toward LAHM and his right foot shot flew narrowly over.
24¹The Birmingham City 'keeper stopped a neatly crafted shot from COLE.
32¹The ref books KALOU.
A cross from ROBBEN left ROBINHO in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
The motionless Birmingham City 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from RAKITIC fell just over.
21²GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from GERRARD allowed COLE to lay a nice ball off to ARSHAVIN who drilled the ball into the net. (2-0 Liverpool)
22²A poor tackle gets LAHM a yellow card.
23²A corner bobbled toward ROBBEN who nodded the ball wide.
27²IBRAHIMOVIC dribbled away from GÖKHAN and poked a weak shot wide.
30²The 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from PALOSCHI.
44²IBRAHIMOVIC booked for an off-the-ball incident.
45²A great save prevented PALOSCHI from scoring an exceptional goal.
46²A neatly crafted cross from RONALDINHO was flicked goalbound by ROBINHO only for the 'keeper to block.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 12
Home league form: WWWL
Overall league form: XWXWWWLL
Formation: 4-1-3-2
Line-ups
(c)Shay GIVEN1Gianluigi BUFFON
Gonzalo RODRÍGUEZ2Philipp LAHM
Marcell JANSEN3Ashley COLE
Alou DIARRA4Steven GERRARD(c)
Sébastien BASSONG5Raúl ALBIOL
Jonny EVANS6Carles PUYOL
Tranquillo BARNETTA7Andrei ARSHAVIN
Ivan RAKITIC8RONALDINHO
(p)Darren BENT9Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC
(f)Andrea PIRLO10ROBINHO(p,f)
Salomon KALOU11Arjen ROBBEN
Gary BirchManagerMark Thomas
GÖKHAN Gönül12  Martin SKRTEL
GUILHERME Alvim  13  Chris KIRKLAND
Marvin COMPPER  14  DIEGO Ribas
Zdravko KUZMANOVIC  15  Hatem BEN ARFA
Alberto PALOSCHI16  Ryan BABEL
 
Liverpool
 
League position: 3
Away league form: WXXL
Overall league form: WWWWXWXX
Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics
Birmingham City 0 Liverpool 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 29,940, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Chris Foy 5½)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Robinho 9¹, Arshavin 21²
RodríguezóGökhan 15², KalouóPaloschi 28² 
  
Kalou 32¹Puyol 18¹, Lahm 22², Ibrahimovic 44²
25
1011
37
37
312
619
35
44%56%
Man of the match: Ronaldinho