Birmingham City 1-0 Southampton: result and report
Championship · Saturday 7 March 2009
Result
Birmingham City 1-0 Southampton
Championship · Saturday 7 March 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 1-0 Southampton: match report
Birmingham City defeated Southampton 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 7 March 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Keith Fahey of Birmingham City in the 44th minute.
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Southampton received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 2nd on 64 points from 36 and Southampton 22nd on 37 points from 35. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Southampton 23rd with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Birmingham City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Southampton.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read W-L-D-L-W and Southampton's W-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 27'Yellow card · David McGoldrick
- 44'Goal · Keith Fahey
- 60'Yellow card · Jan-Paul Saeijs
- 90'Yellow card · Zoltán Lipták
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
Southampton expected line-up
Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap