Birmingham City 2-1 Watford: result and report

Birmingham City 2-1 Watford

Championship · Monday 1 December 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Birmingham City beat Watford 2-1 in the Championship on Monday 1 December 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Seung-ho Paik opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Seung-ho Paik (31') and Demarai Gray (43'). Watford scored through Othmane Maamma (61').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 11th on 25 points from 17 and Watford 15th on 24 points from 17. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 64 points, and Watford 16th with 57.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Tommy Doyle of Birmingham City (7.5), ahead of Jeremy Ngakia (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 1 draw and 8 for Watford.

Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-W-L-W-W and Watford's D-W-D-D-W.