Birmingham City 2-4 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Monday 21 April 2014
Result
Birmingham City 2-4 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Monday 21 April 2014, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-4
Birmingham City · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions
Birmingham City 2-4 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 2-4 in the Championship on Monday 21 April 2014. It was 0-4 at half-time.
Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Nikola Zigic (63') and Demarai Gray (84'). Blackburn Rovers scored through Rudy Gestede (10'), Rudy Gestede (20'), Todd Kane (24') and Rudy Gestede (45+3').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 44 points from 42 and Blackburn Rovers 11th on 61 points from 43. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 45 points, and Blackburn Rovers 8th with 70.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-5-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-1-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-L-W-L-W and Blackburn Rovers's D-D-W-W-D.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Rudy Gestede
- 20'Goal · Rudy Gestede
- 24'Goal · Todd Kane
- 45+3'Goal · Rudy Gestede
- 60'Yellow card · Federico Macheda
- 63'Goal · Nikola Zigic
- 70'Yellow card · C. Reilly
- 74'Yellow card · Grant Hanley
- 84'Goal · Demarai Gray
- 88'Yellow card · Nikola Zigic
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-5-1)
Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, C. Burke, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Oliver Lee, Nikola Zigic
Blackburn Rovers expected line-up (4-4-1-1)
J. Kean, Scott Dann, Grant Hanley, Jason Lowe, Tommy Spurr, Todd Kane, Tom Cairney, J. Rhodes, Joshua King, Leon Best