Birmingham City 3-0 Blackpool: result and report
Championship · Saturday 31 December 2011
Result
Birmingham City 3-0 Blackpool
Championship · Saturday 31 December 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 3-0 Blackpool: match report
Birmingham City beat Blackpool 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 31 December 2011. The half-time score was 1-0.
Curtis Davies opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Curtis Davies (45+1'), Marlon King (52') and Nathan Redmond (89'). Blackpool did not score.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Blackpool received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 16th on 30 points from 21 and Blackpool 8th on 35 points from 23. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 5th with 77 points, and Blackpool 4th with 79.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 2 for Blackpool.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-L-W-L-L and Blackpool's W-D-D-W-L.
Key events
- 39'Yellow card · Marlon King
- 45+1'Goal · Curtis Davies
- 52'Goal · Marlon King
- 55'Red card · Barry Ferguson
- 89'Goal · Nathan Redmond
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up
Boaz Myhill, David Murphy, Steven Caldwell, Jonathan Spector, Curtis Davies, C. Burke, Guirane N'Daw, Jean Beausejour, Keith Fahey, Marlon King, Nikola Zigic
Blackpool line-up
Mark Howard, Stephen Crainey, Alex Baptiste, Craig Cathcart, Elliot Grandin, Ludovic Sylvestre, Matt Phillips, Callum McManaman, Ian Ross Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Barry Ferguson