Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 22 May 2011
Result
Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Birmingham City
Premier League · Sunday 22 May 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Birmingham City: match report
Tottenham Hotspur defeated Birmingham City 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 22 May 2011. The half-time score was 0-0.
Roman Pavlyuchenko opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Roman Pavlyuchenko (49') and Roman Pavlyuchenko (90+2'). Birmingham City scored through Craig Gardner (79').
Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 5th on 59 points from 37 and Birmingham City 17th on 39 points from 37. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 5th with 62 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 39.
Tottenham Hotspur lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 3 draws and 2 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Tottenham Hotspur's last five read W-L-D-L-D and Birmingham City's L-L-D-L-L.
Key events
- 44'Yellow card · Barry Ferguson
- 49'Goal · Roman Pavlyuchenko
- 50'Yellow card · Liam Ridgewell
- 60'Yellow card · Craig Gardner
- 79'Goal · Craig Gardner
- 86'Yellow card · Matt Derbyshire
- 90+2'Goal · Roman Pavlyuchenko
Head-to-head
Team news
Tottenham Hotspur line-up (4-4-2)
Carlo Cudicini, Younès Kaboul, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Tom Huddlestone, Luka Modrić, Peter Crouch, Aaron Lennon, Jermain Defoe, Danny Rose, Sandro
Birmingham City line-up (4-5-1)
Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Liam Ridgewell, Curtis Davies, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Keith Fahey, Jean Beausejour, Cameron Jerome, Barry Ferguson