Birmingham City 6-1 Reading: result and report
Championship · Saturday 13 December 2014
Result
Birmingham City 6-1 Reading
Championship · Saturday 13 December 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 4-1
Birmingham City 6-1 Reading: match report
Birmingham City defeated Reading 6-1 in the Championship on Saturday 13 December 2014. The half-time score was 4-1.
Paul Caddis opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Paul Caddis (4'), Demarai Gray (11'), Demarai Gray (24'), Demarai Gray (45+1'), Andrew Shinnie (46') and David Cotterill (60'). Reading scored through Glenn Murray (19').
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Reading received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 20th on 22 points from 20 and Reading 15th on 24 points from 20. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 63 points, and Reading 20th with 49.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Reading in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 5 for Reading.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Reading's D-W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Paul Caddis
- 11'Goal · Demarai Gray
- 18'Yellow card · Michael Hector
- 19'Goal · Glenn Murray
- 24'Goal · Demarai Gray
- 45+1'Goal · Demarai Gray
- 46'Goal · Andrew Shinnie
- 58'Yellow card · Chris Gunter
- 60'Goal · David Cotterill
Head-to-head
Team news
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Birmingham City expected line-up (4-3-3)
Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Kyle Bartley, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Nikola Zigic, C. Burke, Oliver Lee
Reading expected line-up (4-4-2)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Alex Pearce, Jordan Obita, Jem Karacan, Hal Robson-Kanu, Garath McCleary