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Commentary
0¹PIRLO beat two Charlton Athletic players and blasted a golden opportunity inches over.
3¹VORONIN's shot was well held by SIRIGU.
4¹A deadly shot from CASSANI was stopped by PAYER.
5¹GOAL!! A nice run by NOCERINO on the left was capped by a great cross which BORRIELLO fired in at the near post. (1-0 Birmingham City)
6¹GOAL!! After VORONIN was pulled to the ground DEAN waved play-on and POGREBNYAK went on to easily score. (1-1)
7¹CASSANO whacked a right foot shot over the bar from just outside the area.
10¹PASQUAL headed the ball wide from just inside the area.
27¹A cross from NOCERINO left PIRLO in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
35¹A free-kick from POGREBNYAK raced over the bar.
36¹The 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce drive from Birmingham City's CASSANO.
40¹GOAL!! A deep cross from PASQUAL on the left was nodded home by MARCHISIO at the near post. (2-1 Birmingham City)
43¹GOAL!! A sliced BORRIELLO shot fell to CASSANO who made no mistake from just inside the area. (3-1 Birmingham City)
44¹POGREBNYAK headed just beyond the near post.
7²A tame shot from CASSANO rolled agonisingly wide.
10²A penalty box scramble resulted in PIRLO tapping the ball wide.
18²GOAL!! A delightful shot from TAYLOR was punched clear by SIRIGU only as far as WENDELL who drove the ball past the stranded SIRIGU. (3-2 Birmingham City)
25²MARCHISIO waltzed past EBOUÉ and poked a tame shot over the bar.
33²CASSANO fluffed an easy chance.
39²BORRIELLO beat WENDELL but drove the ball into the arms of PAYER.
42²CASSANO fired the ball through a ruck of players but PAYER was a match for it as he dived to his left.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 19
Home league form: WXWL
Overall league form: LWLLXLWL
Formation: 4-1-3-2
Line-ups
Salvatore SIRIGU6½16 Helge PAYER
Mattia CASSANI7½26½Emmanuel EBOUÉ
Manuel PASQUAL7 36½Andreas IBERTSBERGER
Claudio MARCHISIO7 47 Christian POULSEN
Salvatore BOCCHETTI7 56½Aaron HUGHES(c)
Cesare BOVO6½66½Paolo CANNAVARO
Ignazio ABATE5½76 Valon BEHRAMI
Antonio NOCERINO8 86½WENDELL Geraldo
Antonio CASSANO6½97 Pavel POGREBNYAK(p)
(c,p,f)Andrea PIRLO6 105½Ryan TAYLOR(f)
Marco BORRIELLO6½116½Andriy VORONIN
Gary BirchManager
Luca ANTONELLI  12  Tom CLEVERLEY
Morgan DE SANCTIS  13  Barry FERGUSON
Cristian ZACCARDO  14  Matthieu DELPIERRE
Marco MARCHIONNI6 15  Danny MAYOR
Marco DI VAIO  166 Peter RAMAGE
 
Charlton Athletic
 
League position: 17
Away league form: XLWW
Overall league form: WXXLXWXW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 3 Charlton Athletic 2
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 29,917, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Mike Dean 5½)

Borriello 5¹, Marchisio 40¹, Cassano 43¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Pogrebnyak 6¹, Wendell 18²
AbateóMarchionni 18²PogrebnyakóRamage 30²
  
  
34
810
55
73
82
155
31
55%45%
Man of the match: Antonio Nocerino