Birmingham City 2-2 Liverpool: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 26 April 2008
Result
Birmingham City 2-2 Liverpool
Premier League · Saturday 26 April 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 2-2 Liverpool: match report
Birmingham City drew with Liverpool 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 April 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
Mikael Forssell opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Mikael Forssell (34') and Sebastian Larsson (55'). Liverpool scored through Peter Crouch (63') and Yossi Benayoun (76').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Liverpool received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 31 points from 35 and Liverpool 4th on 69 points from 35. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 19th with 35 points, and Liverpool 4th with 76.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-5-1 and Liverpool in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 2 for Liverpool.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-D-L-W-L and Liverpool's W-W-D-W-L.
Key events
- 34'Goal · Mikael Forssell
- 42'Yellow card · Andriy Voronin
- 45'Yellow card · David Murphy
- 55'Goal · Sebastian Larsson
- 63'Goal · Peter Crouch
- 68'Yellow card · Mehdi Nafti
- 76'Goal · Yossi Benayoun
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-5-1)
Stephen Kelly, Martin Taylor, Liam Ridgewell, David Murphy, Sebastian Larsson, Fabrice Muamba, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou, Mehdi Nafti, Radhi Jaïdi
Liverpool line-up (4-2-3-1)
Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, John Arne Semundseth Riise, Yossi Benayoun, Jermaine Pennant, Lucas Leiva, Damien Plessis, Andriy Voronin, Peter Crouch, Sami Hyypia, Martin Škrtel