Leicester City 2-0 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Friday 29 August 2025
Result
Leicester City 2-0 Birmingham City
Championship · Friday 29 August 2025, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Leicester City 2-0 Birmingham City: match report
Leicester City won against Birmingham City 2-0 in the Championship on Friday 29 August 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Issahaku Fatawu opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Leicester City's goals came from Issahaku Fatawu (8') and Ricardo Pereira (88'). Birmingham City did not score.
Discipline: Leicester City received 3 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 7th on 6 points from 3 and Birmingham City 5th on 7 points from 3. Leicester City went on to finish that season 21st with 52 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 64.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ricardo Pereira of Leicester City (7.3), level with Ethan Laird (7.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Leicester City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Issahaku Fatawu
- 45'Yellow card · Hamza Choudhury
- 57'Yellow card · Issahaku Fatawu
- 62'Yellow card · Kyogo Furuhashi
- 64'Yellow card · Christoph Klarer
- 74'Yellow card · Demarai Gray
- 76'Yellow card · Ricardo Pereira
- 88'Goal · Ricardo Pereira
Head-to-head
Team news
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Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jakub Stolarczyk, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Memeh Caleb Okoli, Jannik Vestergaard, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Boubakary Soumaré, Oliver Skipp, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Louis Page, Stephy Alvaro Mavididi, Jordan Ayew
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-1-1)
Ryan Allsop, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Phil Neumann, Christoph Klarer, Ethan Laird, Willum Thór Willumsson, Tomoki Iwata, Seung-ho Paik, Demarai Gray, Lewis Koumas, Kyogo Furuhashi