Birmingham City 0-1 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 19 January 2008
Result
Birmingham City 0-1 Chelsea
Premier League · Saturday 19 January 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Birmingham City 0-1 Chelsea: match report
Birmingham City lost to Chelsea 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 19 January 2008. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Claudio Pizarro of Chelsea in the 79th minute.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Chelsea received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 15th on 20 points from 22 and Chelsea 3rd on 47 points from 22. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 19th with 35 points, and Chelsea 3rd with 83.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 5 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-L-D-W-L and Chelsea's W-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Fabrice Muamba
- 77'Yellow card · Claudio Pizarro
- 79'Goal · Claudio Pizarro
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, Rafael Schmitz, Liam Ridgewell, Franck Queudrue, Sebastian Larsson, Fabrice Muamba, Garry O'Connor, Cameron Jerome, Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou, Damien Johnson
Chelsea line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, Ashley Cole, Ricardo Carvalho, Alex, Juliano Haus Belletti, Michael Ballack, Florent Malouda, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Claude Makélélé, Joe Cole