Birmingham City 1-0 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Friday 18 December 2015
Result
Birmingham City 1-0 Cardiff City
Championship · Friday 18 December 2015, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 1-0 Cardiff City: match report
Birmingham City beat Cardiff City 1-0 in the Championship on Friday 18 December 2015. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from Paul Caddis of Birmingham City in the 45th minute, from the penalty spot.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 9th on 29 points from 21 and Cardiff City 7th on 33 points from 21. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 62 points, and Cardiff City 8th with 68.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Michael Morrison of Birmingham City (7.7), ahead of Tomasz Kuszczak (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Cardiff City.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-D-L-L-L and Cardiff City's W-D-W-D-L.
Key events
- 36'Yellow card · S. Lowry
- 45+1'Penalty goal · Paul Caddis
- 67'Yellow card · Jonathan Spector
- 72'Yellow card · Maikel Kieftenbeld
- 86'Yellow card · Tony Watt
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Neal Eardley, Michael Morrison, Jonathan Spector, Shane Lowry, Stephen Gleeson, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Jacques Maghoma, Jon Toral, Demarai Gray, James Vaughan
Cardiff City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Txiki Acaz, Sean Morrison, Fábio, John Brayford, Peter Whittingham, Joe Ralls, Anthony Pilkington, Kenwyne Jones