Norwich City 1-0 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 9 September 2017
Result
Norwich City 1-0 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 9 September 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Norwich City 1-0 Birmingham City: match report
Norwich City beat Birmingham City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 9 September 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from Nélson Oliveira of Norwich City in the 5th minute.
Discipline: Norwich City received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Norwich City were 22nd on 4 points from 5 and Birmingham City 20th on 4 points from 5. Norwich City went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 46.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Nélson Oliveira of Norwich City (8.2), ahead of Josh Murphy (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Norwich City wins, 4 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Norwich City's last five read L-L-W-L-D and Birmingham City's L-L-D-W-L.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Nélson Oliveira
- 24'Yellow card · Maxime Colin
- 36'Yellow card · Liam Walsh
- 37'Yellow card · Alexander Tettey
- 44'Yellow card · Jason Lowe
- 45+1'Yellow card · Harlee Dean
- 80'Yellow card · David Davis
Head-to-head
Team news
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Angus Gunn, Ivo Pinto, Christoph Zimmermann, Timm Klose, Marco Stiepermann, Mario Vrančić, Josh Murphy, Tom Trybull, James Maddison, Alexander Tettey, Nélson Oliveira
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
David Adam Stockdale, Jonathan Grounds, Maxime Colin, Harlee Dean, Michael Morrison, Jérémie Boga, Jason Lowe, David Davis, Jota Peleteiro, Sam Gallagher, Liam Walsh