Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 28 April 2018
Result
Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 28 April 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
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Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Birmingham City: match report
Queens Park Rangers beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 28 April 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Ché Adams opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from Bright Osayi-Samuel (29'), Ilias Chair (70') and Matt Smith (90+2'). Birmingham City scored through Ché Adams (27').
Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 16th on 53 points from 44 and Birmingham City 20th on 43 points from 44. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 46.
Queens Park Rangers 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 Eberechi Eze of Queens Park Rangers (8.7), ahead of Ilias Chair (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Queens Park Rangers wins, 1 draw and 3 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 27'Goal · Ché Adams
- 29'Goal · Bright Osayi-Samuel
- 57'Yellow card · Ryan Manning
- 63'Yellow card · David Davis
- 70'Goal · Ilias Chair
- 87'Yellow card · Ilias Chair
- 90+2'Goal · Matt Smith
Head-to-head
Team news
Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Joe Lumley, Darnell Furlong, Jake Bidwell, Ryan Manning, Osman Kakay, Luke Freeman, Josh Scowen, Eberechi Eze, Ilias Chair, Bright Osayi-Samuel, Idrissa Sylla
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
David Adam Stockdale, M. Roberts, Maxime Colin, Michael Morrison, Wes Harding, Cheikh N'Doye, Jacques Maghoma, David Davis, Jota Peleteiro, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Ché Adams