Birmingham City 1-2 Middlesbrough: result and report

Birmingham City 1-2 Middlesbrough

Championship · Saturday 12 January 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Birmingham City were beaten by Middlesbrough 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 12 January 2019. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Lewis Wing opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Ché Adams (79'). Middlesbrough scored through Lewis Wing (37') and Britt Assombalonga (82').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 8th on 39 points from 26 and Middlesbrough 5th on 43 points from 26. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 14th with 61 points, and Middlesbrough 7th with 73.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Middlesbrough in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lewis Wing of Middlesbrough (8.0), ahead of Kristian Pedersen (7.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 4 draws and 5 for Middlesbrough.

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