Birmingham City 3-1 Rotherham United: result and report
Championship · Saturday 6 October 2018
Result
Birmingham City 3-1 Rotherham United
Championship · Saturday 6 October 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Birmingham City 3-1 Rotherham United: match report
Birmingham City beat Rotherham United 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 6 October 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Lukas Jutkiewicz opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Lukas Jutkiewicz (20'), Lukas Jutkiewicz (23') and Lukas Jutkiewicz (68'). Rotherham United scored through Jon Taylor (77').
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Rotherham United received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 11 points from 11 and Rotherham United 19th on 11 points from 11. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 14th with 61 points, and Rotherham United 22nd with 40.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rotherham United in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lukas Jutkiewicz of Birmingham City (9.7), ahead of Kristian Pedersen (8.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 2 draws and 1 for Rotherham United.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 23'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 50'Yellow card · Joe Mattock
- 68'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 77'Goal · Jon Taylor
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Lee Camp, Maxime Colin, Michael Morrison, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Jota Peleteiro, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Gary Gardner, Jacques Maghoma, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Ché Adams
Rotherham United line-up (4-4-1-1)
Marek Rodák, Billy Jones, Semi Ajayi, Will Vaulks, Joe Mattock, Jon Taylor, Matt Palmer, Ryan Manning, Joe Newell, Ryan Williams, Michael Smith