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

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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.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 39'Goal · Jobi McAnuffReading · 0-1
  • 43'Penalty goal · Paul CaddisBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Danny GuthrieReading
  • 71'Yellow card · Jordon IbeBirmingham City
  • 82'Goal · Jobi McAnuffReading · 1-2

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Birmingham City 2, draws 1, Reading 4.

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