Birmingham City 0-2 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 4 February 2006
Result
Birmingham City 0-2 Arsenal
Premier League · Saturday 4 February 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Birmingham City 0-2 Arsenal: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Arsenal 0-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 February 2006. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Emmanuel Adebayor opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Birmingham City did not score. Arsenal scored through Emmanuel Adebayor (21') and Thierry Henry (63').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 20 points from 23 and Arsenal 6th on 37 points from 23. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 34 points, and Arsenal 4th with 67.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 1 draw and 5 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-W-L-W-L and Arsenal's L-L-W-D-D.
Key events
- 13'Yellow card · Thierry Henry
- 21'Goal · Emmanuel Adebayor
- 37'Yellow card · Sebastian Larsson
- 63'Goal · Thierry Henry
- 65'Yellow card · Chris Sutton
- 75'Yellow card · Abou Diaby
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Matthew Upson, Martin Latka, Mario Melchiot, Mustafa Izzet, Jermaine Pennant, Julian Gray, Emile Heskey, Chris Sutton, Jirí Jarosík, Nicky Butt
Arsenal line-up
Jens Lehmann, Philippe Senderos, Johan Djourou, Abou Diaby, José Antonio Reyes, Cesc Fàbregas, Mathieu Flamini, Gilberto Silva, Sebastian Larsson, Emmanuel Adebayor, Thierry Henry