Birmingham City 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday: result and report
Championship · Saturday 25 October 2008
Result
Birmingham City 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Championship · Saturday 25 October 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-1
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Birmingham City 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday: match report
Birmingham City won against Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 25 October 2008. The half-time score was 3-1.
Garry O'Connor opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Garry O'Connor (11'), Garry O'Connor (15') and K. Phillips (38'). Sheffield Wednesday scored through Etiënne Esajas (14').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Sheffield Wednesday received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 1st on 27 points from 12 and Sheffield Wednesday 10th on 18 points from 12. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Sheffield Wednesday 12th with 61.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Sheffield Wednesday.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read W-D-W-D-W and Sheffield Wednesday's L-W-L-W-W.
Key events
- 11'Goal · Garry O'Connor
- 14'Goal · Etiënne Esajas
- 15'Goal · Garry O'Connor
- 38'Goal · K. Phillips
- 63'Yellow card · Jimmy Smith
- 64'Yellow card · Sebastian Larsson
- 69'Second yellow · Jimmy Smith
- 83'Yellow card · Lewis Buxton
- 90'Yellow card · James McFadden
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi