Birmingham City 0-2 Rotherham United: result and report
Championship · Saturday 26 September 2015
Result
Birmingham City 0-2 Rotherham United
Championship · Saturday 26 September 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Birmingham City 0-2 Rotherham United: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Rotherham United 0-2 in the Championship on Saturday 26 September 2015. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Matt Derbyshire opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Birmingham City did not score. Rotherham United scored through Matt Derbyshire (32') and Anthony Andreu (64').
Neither side received a card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 12th on 11 points from 7 and Rotherham United 24th on 5 points from 8. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 62 points, and Rotherham United 21st with 49.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rotherham United in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Demarai Gray of Birmingham City (7.6), ahead of Jonathan Grounds (7.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Rotherham United.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-L-W-W-D and Rotherham United's W-L-D-L-L.
Key events
- 32'Goal · Matt Derbyshire
- 64'Goal · Anthony Andreu
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Paul Caddis, Michael Morrison, Jonathan Spector, Jonathan Grounds, Stephen Gleeson, Maikel Kieftenbeld, David Cotterill, Jon Toral, Demarai Gray, Clayton Donaldson
Rotherham United expected line-up (4-4-1-1)
Adam Collin, Joe Skarz, Kirk Broadfoot, Craig Morgan, Frazer Richardson, Paul Green, Lee Frecklington, Ben Pringle, Richard Smallwood, A. Revell, Paul Taylor