Birmingham City 2-2 Middlesbrough: result and report
Championship · Saturday 7 December 2013
Result
Birmingham City 2-2 Middlesbrough
Championship · Saturday 7 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Birmingham City 2-2 Middlesbrough: match report
Birmingham City drew with Middlesbrough 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 7 December 2013. The half-time score was 0-1.
Mustapha Carayol opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Paul Caddis (59', penalty) and Kyle Bartley (90+4'). Middlesbrough scored through Mustapha Carayol (22') and Daniel Ayala (80').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 15th on 20 points from 18 and Middlesbrough 17th on 19 points from 18. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 45 points, and Middlesbrough 12th with 64.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Middlesbrough in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Yuki Takahashi of Middlesbrough (8.1), ahead of Dan Burn (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 5 for Middlesbrough.
Key events
- 22'Goal · Mustapha Carayol
- 30'Yellow card · Paul Robinson
- 45'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
- 59'Penalty goal · Paul Caddis
- 80'Goal · Daniel Ayala
- 90+4'Goal · Kyle Bartley
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Darren Randolph, Paul Caddis, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Mitch Hancox, Lee Novak, Dariusz Dudka, Callum Reilly, Jesse Lingard, Nikola Zigic, Aaron Mclean
Middlesbrough line-up (4-4-2)
Shay Given, Rhys Williams, Jonathan Woodgate, Yuki Takahashi, Ben Gibson, Albert Adomah, Grant Leadbitter, Dean Whitehead, Mustapha Carayol, Marvin Emnes, Kei Kamara