Watford 2-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 September 2023

Result

Watford 2-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 16 September 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Watford · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Watford 2-0 Birmingham City: match report

Watford defeated Birmingham City 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 16 September 2023. It was 0-0 at half-time.

M. Rajović opened the scoring in the 90th minute. Watford's goals came from M. Rajović (90+1') and Ryan Andrews (90+6'). Birmingham City did not score.

Discipline: Watford received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Watford were 18th on 5 points from 5 and Birmingham City 4th on 11 points from 5. Watford went on to finish that season 15th with 56 points, and Birmingham City 22nd with 50.

Watford 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 Ryan Porteous of Watford (7.8), ahead of Imrân Louza (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Watford wins, 1 draw and 1 for Birmingham City.

Going into the match Watford's last five read D-L-L-D-W and Birmingham City's D-W-W-W-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Yellow card · Cody DramehBirmingham City
  • 35'Yellow card · Lee BuchananBirmingham City
  • 38'Yellow card · Krystian BielikBirmingham City
  • 55'Yellow card · Wesley HoedtWatford
  • 57'Yellow card · Jay StansfieldBirmingham City
  • 60'Yellow card · Ivan ŠunjićBirmingham City
  • 88'Second yellow · Lee BuchananBirmingham City
  • 90+1'Goal · M. RajovićWatford · 1-0
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Emmanuel LongeloBirmingham City
  • 90+6'Goal · Ryan AndrewsWatford · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Watford 8, draws 1, Birmingham City 1.

Team news

Watford line-up (4-3-3)

Daniel Bachmann, Jeremy Ngakia, Ryan Porteous, Wesley Hoedt, James Morris, Imrân Louza, Francisco Sierralta, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Tom Ince, Mileta Rajović, Matheus Martins

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

John Ruddy, Cody Drameh, Dion Sanderson, Kevin Long, Lee Buchanan, Ivan Šunjić, Krystian Bielik, Oliver Burke, Jay Stansfield, Keshi Anderson, Scott Hogan