Middlesbrough 0-0 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 12 December 2015
Result
Middlesbrough 0-0 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 12 December 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Middlesbrough 0-0 Birmingham City: match report
Middlesbrough drew with Birmingham City 0-0 in the Championship on Saturday 12 December 2015. The half-time score was 0-0.
Neither side found the net.
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 2nd on 39 points from 19 and Birmingham City 12th on 27 points from 19. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 4th with 89 points, and Birmingham City 10th with 62.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Stephen Gleeson of Birmingham City (8.3), ahead of Tomasz Kuszczak (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Middlesbrough wins, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read W-W-W-L-W and Birmingham City's L-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · N. Eardley
- 31'Yellow card · Adam Clayton
- 88'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
- 90+3'Red card · David Nugent
- 90+4'Yellow card · Stephen Gleeson
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Middlesbrough expected line-up (4-4-2)
Dimitris Konstantopoulos, George Friend, Yuki Takahashi, Ben Gibson, Albert Adomah, Grant Leadbitter, Adam Clayton, Adam Reach, Patrick Bamford, Kike García, Lee Tomlin
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Neal Eardley, Michael Morrison, Jonathan Spector, Jonathan Grounds, Stephen Gleeson, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Jacques Maghoma, Andrew Shinnie, Demarai Gray, James Vaughan