Birmingham City 1-0 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 21 October 2008

Result

Birmingham City 1-0 Crystal Palace

Championship · Tuesday 21 October 2008, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Birmingham City 1-0 Crystal Palace: match report

Birmingham City defeated Crystal Palace 1-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 21 October 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Garry O'Connor of Birmingham City in the 90th minute.

Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 2nd on 24 points from 11 and Crystal Palace 14th on 15 points from 11. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Crystal Palace 15th with 57.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 2 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 36'Yellow card · Matt LawrenceCrystal Palace
  • 90'Goal · Garry O'ConnorBirmingham City · 1-0

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Birmingham City 2, draws 0, Crystal Palace 2.

Team news

Birmingham City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi