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GOAL!! An imaginative ABATE played a great ball down the middle to OSVALDO who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Birmingham City)
The motionless 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from SÁNCHEZ fell just over.
15¹A accurate pass fell to SÁNCHEZ and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide.
17¹STYLES cautions HANDANOVIC.
23¹LUCAS beat two Birmingham City players and fired a golden opportunity inches over.
24¹A shot from SÁNCHEZ was smothered by the Birmingham City 'keeper.
32¹GOAL!! A shot from SÁNCHEZ bobbled through a ruck of players and bounced past the unsighted 'keeper. (1-1)
34¹MOTTA booked for a late tackle on TORRES.
36¹A free-kick from CANDREVA went wide.
40¹CANDREVA stroked a simple chance past the righthand post.
44¹ABATE shot wide.
OSVALDO given a yellow card by STYLES for a poor challenge.
12²A shot from SÁNCHEZ seemed a certain goal but SIRIGU managed to palm the ball away.
15²A bad foul gets PODOLSKI a yellow card.
29²PODOLSKI made space on the right and dragged the ball to TORRES who rasped the ball over.
36²A twenty-five yard shot from SÁNCHEZ caused the Birmingham City 'keeper no problem.
38²TORRES beat ABATE and hit the ball to SÁNCHEZ who hit his shot wide.
39²TORRES's shot beat SIRIGU but rebounded off the Birmingham City woodwork.
43²A strike from AQUILANI held no problem for HANDANOVIC.
44²CANDREVA drove a deadly shot just wide from twenty yards out.
45²A brilliant strike from AQUILANI was dealt with by a fine stop from HANDANOVIC.
46²BARZAGLI booked by STYLES.

 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 12
Home league form: OXLW
Overall league form: LOWXXXLL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Salvatore SIRIGU1Samir HANDANOVIC
Ignazio ABATE2Aleksandr ANYUKOV
Domenico CRISCITO3Patrice EVRÀ
(c)Andrea PIRLO4Steven GERRARD(c)
Andrea BARZAGLI5BRUNO Eduardo ALVES
Davide ASTORI6Andrea RANOCCHIA
Alberto AQUILANI7Wesley SNEIJDER
Antonio CANDREVA8Alexis SÁNCHEZ
(p)Daniel OSVALDO9Fernando TORRES(p)
(f)Thiago MOTTA10LUCAS Rodrigues(f)
Lorenzo INSIGNE11Lukas PODOLSKI
Manager
Manolo GABBIADINI  12  James RODRÍGUEZ
Morgan DE SANCTIS  13  Marc-André TER STEGEN
Emanuele GIACCHERINI  14  THIAGO Alcántara
Ciro IMMOBILE  15  Stephan EL SHAARAWY
Paolo CANNAVARO  16  Gustavo LUCAS PIAZÓN
 
Norwich City
 
League position: 9
Away league form: XXLW
Overall league form: OLXWXLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Birmingham City 1 Norwich City 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 29,789, Stadium: St.Andrews, Referee: Rob Styles 5½)

Osvaldo 3¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Sánchez 32¹
  
  
Motta 34¹, Osvaldo 3², Barzagli 46²Handanovic 17¹, Podolski 15²
33
912
32
36
94
1210
25
45%55%
Man of the match: Andrea Pirlo