Birmingham City 3-1 Middlesbrough: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 3 March 2004

Result

Birmingham City 3-1 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Wednesday 3 March 2004, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Birmingham City 3-1 Middlesbrough: match report

Birmingham City won against Middlesbrough 3-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 3 March 2004. The half-time score was 1-0.

Martin Taylor opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Martin Taylor (23'), Robbie Savage (57') and Mikael Forssell (79'). Middlesbrough scored through Szilard Nemeth (75').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 9th on 36 points from 25 and Middlesbrough 13th on 31 points from 25. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 50 points, and Middlesbrough 11th with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 0 draws and 1 for Middlesbrough.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Yellow card · Danny MillsMiddlesbrough
  • 19'Yellow card · Robbie SavageBirmingham City
  • 23'Goal · Martin TaylorBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · Boudewijn ZendenMiddlesbrough
  • 50'Yellow card · Michael RickettsMiddlesbrough
  • 56'Yellow card · George BoatengMiddlesbrough
  • 57'Goal · Robbie SavageBirmingham City · 2-0
  • 70'Yellow card · Ugo EhioguMiddlesbrough
  • 75'Goal · Szilard NemethMiddlesbrough · 2-1
  • 79'Goal · Mikael ForssellBirmingham City · 3-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Mikael ForssellBirmingham City
  • 86'Yellow card · Clinton MorrisonBirmingham City
  • 87'Red card · Boudewijn ZendenMiddlesbrough

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Birmingham City 1, draws 0, Middlesbrough 1.

Team news

Birmingham City line-up

Maik Taylor, Kenny Cunningham, Martin Taylor, Matthew Upson, Olivier Tebily, Robbie Savage, Stephen Clemence, Mikael Forssell, Clinton Morrison, Bryan Hughes, Damien Johnson