Everton 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 23 April 2005
Result
Everton 1-1 Birmingham City
Premier League · Saturday 23 April 2005, 11:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Everton 1-1 Birmingham City: match report
Everton drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 23 April 2005. The half-time score was 0-1.
Emile Heskey opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Everton's goal came from Duncan Ferguson (86'). Birmingham City scored through Emile Heskey (5').
Discipline: Everton received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 4th on 57 points from 33 and Birmingham City 13th on 38 points from 34. Everton went on to finish that season 4th with 61 points, and Birmingham City 12th with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Everton wins, 2 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Everton's last five read W-W-L-L-L and Birmingham City's L-D-D-D-W.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Emile Heskey
- 24'Yellow card · Lee Carsley
- 32'Yellow card · Mario Melchiot
- 69'Yellow card · Kenny Cunningham
- 81'Yellow card · Stephen Clemence
- 86'Goal · Duncan Ferguson
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up
Maik Taylor, Matthew Upson, Mario Melchiot, Kenny Cunningham, Julian Gray, Robbie Savage, Jesper Gronkjaer, Darren Anderton, Emile Heskey, Damien Johnson, David Dunn