Birmingham City 2-1 Reading: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 17 March 2021

Result

Birmingham City 2-1 Reading

Championship · Wednesday 17 March 2021, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Birmingham City 2-1 Reading: match report

Birmingham City won against Reading 2-1 in the Championship on Wednesday 17 March 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Lukas Jutkiewicz opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Lukas Jutkiewicz (4') and Harlee Dean (71'). Reading scored through Y. Meïté (35').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Reading received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 21st on 35 points from 36 and Reading 6th on 61 points from 36. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 52 points, and Reading 7th with 70.

Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Reading in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Harlee Dean of Birmingham City (8.0), ahead of Rekeem Harper (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Birmingham City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Reading.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Lukas JutkiewiczBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 22'Yellow card · Maxime ColinBirmingham City
  • 28'Yellow card · G. GardnerBirmingham City
  • 35'Goal · Y. MeïtéReading · 1-1
  • 71'Goal · Harlee DeanBirmingham City · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 5, draws 2, Reading 3.

Team news

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Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)

Neil Etheridge, Maxime Colin, M. Roberts, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Alen Halilovic, Gary Gardner, Rekeem Harper, Jérémie Bela, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Scott Hogan

Reading line-up (4-3-1-2)

Rafael Cabral, Andy Yiadom, Tom Holmes, Liam Moore, Omar Richards, Alfa Semedo, Tom McIntyre, Josh Laurent, Michael Olise, Yakou Méïté, Lucas João