Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 25 February 2006
Result
Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland
Premier League · Saturday 25 February 2006, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland: match report
Birmingham City beat Sunderland 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 25 February 2006. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from Emile Heskey of Birmingham City in the 39th minute.
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 20 points from 25 and Sunderland 20th on 10 points from 26. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 34 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Sunderland.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read L-L-D-W-L and Sunderland's L-D-L-L-W.
Key events
- 39'Goal · Emile Heskey
- 39'Yellow card · Nyron Nosworthy
- 54'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 68'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up
Maik Taylor, Martin Taylor, Martin Latka, Mario Melchiot, Mustafa Izzet, Jermaine Pennant, Julian Gray, Emile Heskey, Chris Sutton, Jirí Jarosík, Damien Johnson
Sunderland line-up
Gary Breen, Nyron Nosworthy, Danny Collins, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Grant Leadbitter, Julio Arca, Kevin Kyle, Daryl Murphy, Kelvin Davis