Birmingham City 2-0 Reading: result and report
Championship · Saturday 28 April 2012
Result
Birmingham City 2-0 Reading
Championship · Saturday 28 April 2012, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 2-0 Reading: match report
Birmingham City beat Reading 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 28 April 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.
A. Rooney opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from A. Rooney (24') and Wade Elliott (75', penalty). Reading did not score.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Reading received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 5th on 73 points from 45 and Reading 1st on 89 points from 45. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 5th with 77 points, and Reading 2nd with 89.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Birmingham City win, 1 draw and 3 for Reading.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-D-D-D-W and Reading's D-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 24'Goal · A. Rooney
- 37'Yellow card · David Murphy
- 55'Yellow card · Matthew Connolly
- 75'Penalty goal · Wade Elliott
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up
Colin Doyle, David Murphy, Pablo Ibáñez, Peter Ramage, Curtis Davies, Guirane N'Daw, Morgaro Gomis, Wade Elliott, Andros Townsend, Nikola Zigic, Nathan Redmond
Reading line-up
Adam Federici, Matthew Connolly, Alex Pearce, Kaspars Gorkss, Ian Harte, Jay Tabb, Mikele Leigertwood, Jobi McAnuff, Adam Le Fondre, Simon Church, Hal Robson-Kanu