Birmingham City 1-2 Reading: result and report
Championship · Saturday 22 March 2014
Result
Birmingham City 1-2 Reading
Championship · Saturday 22 March 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Birmingham City 1-2 Reading: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Reading 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 22 March 2014. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Jobi McAnuff opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Paul Caddis (43', penalty). Reading scored through Jobi McAnuff (39') and Jobi McAnuff (82').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Reading received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 38 points from 36 and Reading 7th on 56 points from 36. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 45 points, and Reading 7th with 71.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-5-1 and Reading in a 4-4-1-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 4 for Reading.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Reading's D-W-D-D-L.
Key events
- 39'Goal · Jobi McAnuff
- 43'Penalty goal · Paul Caddis
- 67'Yellow card · Danny Guthrie
- 71'Yellow card · Jordon Ibe
- 82'Goal · Jobi McAnuff
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-5-1)
Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, C. Burke, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Oliver Lee, Nikola Zigic
Reading expected line-up (4-4-1-1)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Adrian Mariappa, Danny Guthrie, Garath McCleary, Jem Karacan, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu