Southampton 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 28 October 2023

Result

Southampton 3-1 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 28 October 2023, 11:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Southampton 3-1 Birmingham City: match report

Southampton beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 28 October 2023. The half-time score was 2-0.

Taylor Harwood-Bellis opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Southampton's goals came from Taylor Harwood-Bellis (9'), Carlos Alcaraz (22') and Adam Armstrong (86'). Birmingham City scored through Jay Stansfield (58').

Discipline: Southampton received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Southampton were 5th on 21 points from 13 and Birmingham City 12th on 18 points from 13. Southampton went on to finish that season 4th with 94 points, and Birmingham City 22nd with 50.

Southampton lined up in a 4-3-3 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Taylor Harwood-Bellis of Southampton (8.1), ahead of Flynn Downes (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 2 draws and 5 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

9'Goal · Taylor Harwood-BellisSouthampton · 1-0
22'Goal · Carlos AlcarazSouthampton · 2-0
44'Yellow card · Emanuel AiwuBirmingham City
58'Goal · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City · 2-1
80'Yellow card · Gary GardnerBirmingham City
86'Goal · Adam ArmstrongSouthampton · 3-1
90+3'Yellow card · Jordan JamesBirmingham City
90+9'Yellow card · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Southampton 3, draws 2, Birmingham City 5.

Birmingham City 0-0 SouthamptonChampionship · 4 Feb 2012
Southampton 4-1 Birmingham CityChampionship · 18 Sep 2011
Southampton 1-2 Birmingham CityCarabao Cup · 25 Aug 2009
Birmingham City 1-0 SouthamptonChampionship · 7 Mar 2009
Southampton 2-0 Birmingham CityCarabao Cup · 26 Aug 2008
Southampton 1-2 Birmingham CityChampionship · 16 Aug 2008

Team news

Unavailable

Juan LariosSouthampton · injury (Unknown Injury)
Ross StewartSouthampton · injury (Achilles tendon problems)
Alfie ChangBirmingham City · injury (Knee Injury)

Southampton line-up (4-3-3)

Gavin Bazunu, Kyle Walker-Peters, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jan Bednarek, James Bree, Will Smallbone, Flynn Downes, Stuart Armstrong, Carlos Alcaraz, Adam Armstrong, Kamaldeen Sulemana

Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)

John Ruddy, Cody Drameh, Dion Sanderson, Emanuel Aiwu, Emmanuel Longelo, Krystian Bielik, Ivan Šunjić, Oliver Burke, Jordan James, Siriki Dembélé, Lukas Jutkiewicz