Birmingham City 0-1 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Championship · Saturday 20 August 2022
Result
Birmingham City 0-1 Wigan Athletic
Championship · Saturday 20 August 2022, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Birmingham City 0-1 Wigan Athletic: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Wigan Athletic 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 20 August 2022. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Nathan Broadhead of Wigan Athletic in the 82nd minute.
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 13th on 5 points from 4 and Wigan Athletic 19th on 3 points from 3. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 17th with 53 points, and Wigan Athletic 23rd with 45.
Birmingham City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jason Kerr of Wigan Athletic (7.8), ahead of Jamie Jones (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Wigan Athletic.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-L-W-D and Wigan Athletic's D-D-D.
Key events
- 10'Red card · Joe Bennett
- 66'Yellow card · Will Keane
- 71'Yellow card · Tom Naylor
- 71'Yellow card · Tom Naylor
- 82'Goal · Nathan Broadhead
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (3-5-2)
John Ruddy, Maxime Colin, Dion Sanderson, Auston Trusty, Josh Williams, Juninho Bacuna, Jordan James, George Hall, Przemyslaw Placheta, Scott Hogan, Lukas Jutkiewicz
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jamie Jones, Tendayi Darikwa, Jack Whatmough, Jason Kerr, Joe Bennett, Max Power, Tom Naylor, Callum Lang, Will Keane, James McClean, Josh Magennis