Birmingham City 0-0 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 26 December 2009
Result
Birmingham City 0-0 Chelsea
Premier League · Saturday 26 December 2009, 12:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
Birmingham City 0-0 Chelsea: match report
Birmingham City drew with Chelsea 0-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 December 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.
Neither side found the net.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Chelsea received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 7th on 28 points from 18 and Chelsea 1st on 41 points from 18. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 9th with 50 points, and Chelsea 1st with 86.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Chelsea in a 4-1-2-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 6 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-W-W-W-W and Chelsea's D-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 61'Yellow card · Florent Malouda
- 71'Yellow card · Lee Bowyer
- 78'Yellow card · Branislav Ivanović
- 89'Second yellow · Florent Malouda
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Joe Hart, Stephen Carr, Liam Ridgewell, Roger Johnson, Scott Dann, Sebastian Larsson, Cameron Jerome, Christian Benitez Betancourt, James McFadden, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson
Chelsea expected line-up (4-1-2-3)
Petr Čech, John Terry, Alex, Ashley Cole, Juliano Haus Belletti, Michael Essien, Florent Malouda, John Mikel Obi, Michael Ballack, Nicolas Anelka, Didier Drogba