Birmingham City 3-1 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Championship · Saturday 10 January 2015
Result
Birmingham City 3-1 Wigan Athletic
Championship · Saturday 10 January 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Birmingham City 3-1 Wigan Athletic: match report
Birmingham City beat Wigan Athletic 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 10 January 2015. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Clayton Donaldson opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Clayton Donaldson (2'), Clayton Donaldson (14') and Clayton Donaldson (64'). Wigan Athletic scored through James McClean (36').
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 14th on 31 points from 24 and Wigan Athletic 23rd on 21 points from 24. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 63 points, and Wigan Athletic 23rd with 40.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 4 for Wigan Athletic.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read W-L-W-W-L and Wigan Athletic's L-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Clayton Donaldson
- 5'Yellow card · C. McCann
- 14'Goal · Clayton Donaldson
- 36'Goal · James McClean
- 64'Goal · Clayton Donaldson
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-3-3)
Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Kyle Bartley, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Nikola Zigic, C. Burke, Oliver Lee
Wigan Athletic expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Scott Carson, James Perch, Robert Kiernan, Leon Barnett, Callum McManaman, Shaun Maloney, Jean Beausejour, Jordi Gómez, James McArthur, Róger Espinoza, Emmerson Orlando Boyce