Birmingham City 1-4 Queens Park Rangers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 18 February 2017
Result
Birmingham City 1-4 Queens Park Rangers
Championship · Saturday 18 February 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Birmingham City 1-4 Queens Park Rangers: match report
Birmingham City lost to Queens Park Rangers 1-4 in the Championship on Saturday 18 February 2017. The half-time score was 0-1.
Matt Smith opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Emilio Nsue (90+3'). Queens Park Rangers scored through Matt Smith (18'), Conor Washington (47'), Idrissa Sylla (84') and Isaac Moreno (88').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 5 yellow cards; Queens Park Rangers received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 14th on 40 points from 32 and Queens Park Rangers 19th on 35 points from 31. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Queens Park Rangers 17th with 54.
Birmingham City lined up in a 5-3-2 and Queens Park Rangers in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Nedum Onuoha of Queens Park Rangers (7.8), level with Matt Smith (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 4 for Queens Park Rangers.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Matt Smith
- 21'Yellow card · Robert Tesche
- 47'Goal · Conor Washington
- 50'Yellow card · J. Lynch
- 56'Yellow card · Paul Robinson
- 56'Yellow card · Paul Robinson
- 79'Yellow card · Conor Washington
- 82'Yellow card · Jake Bidwell
- 84'Goal · Idrissa Sylla
- 87'Yellow card · Jack Storer
- 87'Yellow card · Jack Storer
- 88'Goal · Isaac Moreno
- 90'Yellow card · Ryan Manning
- 90+3'Goal · Emilio Nsue
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (5-3-2)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Emilio Nsue, Josh Dacres-Cogley, Ryan Shotton, Jonathan Grounds, Cheick Keita, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Robert Tesche, Greg Stewart, Ché Adams, Jerome Sinclair
Queens Park Rangers line-up (3-4-3)
Alex Smithies, Nedum Onuoha, Grant Hall, Joel Lynch, Darnell Furlong, Ryan Manning, Luke Freeman, Jake Bidwell, Paweł Wszołek, Matt Smith, Conor Washington