Birmingham City 3-2 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 6 December 2008
Result
Birmingham City 3-2 Watford
Championship · Saturday 6 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Birmingham City 3-2 Watford: match report
Birmingham City beat Watford 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 6 December 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.
T. Priskin opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from K. Phillips (8'), Marcus Bent (18') and Cameron Jerome (85'). Watford scored through T. Priskin (7') and R. Jenkins (89').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Watford received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 2nd on 41 points from 20 and Watford 20th on 20 points from 20. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Watford 13th with 58.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-W-W-W-D and Watford's D-D-W-L-L.
Key events
- 7'Goal · T. Priskin
- 8'Goal · K. Phillips
- 18'Goal · Marcus Bent
- 33'Yellow card · Franck Queudrue
- 85'Goal · Cameron Jerome
- 89'Goal · R. Jenkins
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi
Watford expected line-up
Ben Foster, Daniel Shittu, Jordan Stewart, Lloyd Doyley, Jay DeMerit, Douglas Rinaldi, Gavin Mahon, Alhassan Bangura, Damien Francis, Tommy Smith, Marlon King