Leicester City 3-2 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 24 August 2013
Result
Leicester City 3-2 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 24 August 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Leicester City 3-2 Birmingham City: match report
Leicester City defeated Birmingham City 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 24 August 2013. The half-time score was 0-1.
Matt Green opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Jamie Vardy (78'), Andy King (82') and David Nugent (90+3', penalty). Birmingham City scored through Matt Green (12') and C. Burke (90+4').
Discipline: Leicester City received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Leicester City were 6th on 7 points from 3 and Birmingham City 17th on 3 points from 3. Leicester City went on to finish that season 1st with 102 points, and Birmingham City 21st with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read W-D-W and Birmingham City's L-W-L.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Matt Green
- 78'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 82'Goal · Andy King
- 90+2'Yellow card · Kyle Bartley
- 90+3'Penalty goal · David Nugent
- 90+4'Goal · C. Burke
Head-to-head
Team news
Leicester City line-up
Kasper Schmeichel, Ritchie De Laet, Zak Whitbread, Liam Moore, Danny Drinkwater, Matty James, Andy King, Jeffrey Schlupp, Jamie Vardy, David Nugent, Chris Wood
Birmingham City line-up
Darren Randolph, Neal Eardley, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Jonathan Spector, Hayden Mullins, Wade Elliott, Tom Adeyemi, Shane Ferguson, Lee Novak, Matt Green