Wigan Athletic 2-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 19 March 2011

Result

Wigan Athletic 2-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 19 March 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Wigan Athletic · Birmingham City · Premier League predictions

Wigan Athletic 2-1 Birmingham City: match report

Wigan Athletic beat Birmingham City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 19 March 2011. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Liam Ridgewell opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Wigan Athletic's goals came from Tom Cleverley (25') and Maynor Figueroa (90+3'). Birmingham City scored through Liam Ridgewell (6').

Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 20th on 27 points from 29 and Birmingham City 18th on 31 points from 28. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 16th with 42 points, and Birmingham City 18th with 39.

Wigan Athletic lined up in a 4-3-3 and Birmingham City in a 4-5-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Wigan Athletic win, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Liam RidgewellBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 25'Goal · Tom CleverleyWigan Athletic · 1-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Victor MosesWigan Athletic
  • 68'Yellow card · A. AlcárazWigan Athletic
  • 73'Yellow card · Curtis DaviesBirmingham City
  • 86'Yellow card · Maynor FigueroaWigan Athletic
  • 90+3'Goal · Maynor FigueroaWigan Athletic · 2-1

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Wigan Athletic 1, draws 2, Birmingham City 4.

Team news

Wigan Athletic line-up (4-3-3)

Ali Al-Habsi, Antolín Alcaraz, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, James McCarthy, Charles N'Zogbia, Victor Moses, Franco Di Santo, G. Caldwell, Ben Watson, Tom Cleverley, Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez

Birmingham City line-up (4-5-1)

Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Liam Ridgewell, Martin Jiranek, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Jean Beausejour, Jordon Mutch, Cameron Jerome, Barry Ferguson