Birmingham City 2-2 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 2 February 2011
Result
Birmingham City 2-2 Manchester City
Premier League · Wednesday 2 February 2011, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-2
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Birmingham City 2-2 Manchester City: match report
Birmingham City drew with Manchester City 2-2 in the Premier League on Wednesday 2 February 2011. It was 1-2 at half-time.
C. Tevez opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Nikola Zigic (23') and Craig Gardner (77', penalty). Manchester City scored through C. Tevez (4') and Aleksandar Kolarov (41').
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 17th on 23 points from 22 and Manchester City 3rd on 45 points from 24. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 39 points, and Manchester City 3rd with 71.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-D-W-L-D and Manchester City's L-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · C. Tevez
- 23'Goal · Nikola Zigic
- 27'Yellow card · N. de Jong
- 41'Goal · Aleksandar Kolarov
- 45'Yellow card · Aleksandar Kolarov
- 77'Penalty goal · Craig Gardner
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Ben Foster, Stephen Carr, Roger Johnson, Liam Ridgewell, Martin Jiranek, Craig Gardner, Daniel Bentley, Cameron Jerome, Nikola Zigic, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson
Manchester City expected line-up (4-5-1)
Wayne Bridge, Nigel de Jong, Carlos Alberto Tevez, Gareth Barry, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Kolo Touré, Micah Richards