Birmingham City 0-2 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 26 December 2017
Result
Birmingham City 0-2 Norwich City
Championship · Tuesday 26 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Birmingham City 0-2 Norwich City: match report
Birmingham City lost to Norwich City 0-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 26 December 2017. The half-time score was 0-1.
Alex Pritchard opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Birmingham City did not score. Norwich City scored through Alex Pritchard (33') and Josh Murphy (71').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Norwich City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 24th on 17 points from 23 and Norwich City 17th on 27 points from 23. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 19th with 46 points, and Norwich City 14th with 60.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Norwich City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Pritchard of Norwich City (8.5), ahead of Craig Gardner (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 4 for Norwich City.
Key events
- 33'Goal · Alex Pritchard
- 45+2'Yellow card · Maikel Kieftenbeld
- 52'Yellow card · Christoph Zimmermann
- 71'Goal · Josh Murphy
- 79'Yellow card · Josh Murphy
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
David Adam Stockdale, Jonathan Grounds, Maxime Colin, Harlee Dean, Michael Morrison, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Craig Gardner, Cheikh N'Doye, Jérémie Boga, Jota Peleteiro, Lukas Jutkiewicz
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Angus Gunn, Ivo Pinto, Christoph Zimmermann, Timm Klose, Jamal Lewis, Josh Murphy, Tom Trybull, Alex Pritchard, James Maddison, Alexander Tettey, Nélson Oliveira