Birmingham City 2-2 Blackpool: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 9 May 2012
Result
Birmingham City 2-2 Blackpool
Championship · Wednesday 9 May 2012, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Birmingham City 2-2 Blackpool: match report
Birmingham City drew with Blackpool 2-2 in the Championship on Wednesday 9 May 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.
Stephen Dobbie opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Nikola Zigic (64') and Curtis Davies (73'). Blackpool scored through Stephen Dobbie (45') and M. Phillips (48').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Blackpool received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 5th on 76 points from 47 and Blackpool 4th on 78 points from 47. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 5th with 77 points, and Blackpool 4th with 79.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Blackpool in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 3 for Blackpool.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-W-D-D-D and Blackpool's W-D-W-W-D.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · Nikola Zigic
- 37'Yellow card · N. Eardley
- 45'Goal · Stephen Dobbie
- 48'Goal · M. Phillips
- 64'Goal · Nikola Zigic
- 73'Goal · Curtis Davies
- 89'Yellow card · Gary Taylor-Fletcher
- 90+3'Yellow card · Nathan Redmond
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Colin Doyle, David Murphy, Pablo Ibáñez, Peter Ramage, Jonathan Spector, Curtis Davies, C. Burke, Jordon Mutch, Marlon King, Andros Townsend, Nikola Zigic
Blackpool line-up (4-3-3)
Stephen Crainey, Neal Eardley, Alex Baptiste, Matt Phillips, Angel Martinez, Stephen Dobbie, Tom Ince, Matthew Gilks, Ian Ross Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Barry Ferguson