Swansea City 2-3 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Friday 21 November 2008
Result
Swansea City 2-3 Birmingham City
Championship · Friday 21 November 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Swansea City 2-3 Birmingham City: match report
Swansea City were beaten by Birmingham City 2-3 in the Championship on Friday 21 November 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Jordi Gómez opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Swansea City's goals came from Jordi Gómez (2') and an own goal by Radhi Jaïdi (44'). Birmingham City scored through Marcus Bent (42'), K. Phillips (74') and K. Phillips (79').
Discipline: Swansea City received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Swansea City were 7th on 27 points from 17 and Birmingham City 2nd on 34 points from 17. Swansea City went on to finish that season 8th with 68 points, and Birmingham City 4th with 83.
Going into the match Swansea City's last five read W-W-D-L-W and Birmingham City's W-D-L-L-W.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Jordi Gómez
- 27'Yellow card · Jordi Gómez
- 29'Yellow card · Marcus Bent
- 42'Goal · Marcus Bent
- 44'Own goal · Radhi Jaïdi
- 74'Goal · K. Phillips
- 79'Goal · K. Phillips
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi