Birmingham City 0-1 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 12 December 2020
Result
Birmingham City 0-1 Watford
Championship · Saturday 12 December 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Birmingham City 0-1 Watford: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Watford 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 12 December 2020. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Troy Deeney of Watford in the 85th minute, from the penalty spot.
Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Watford received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 15th on 22 points from 17 and Watford 4th on 30 points from 17. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 18th with 52 points, and Watford 3rd with 91.
Birmingham City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Watford in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jeremy Ngakia of Watford (7.7), ahead of Ben Foster (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 5 for Watford.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read W-W-L-D-D and Watford's W-L-D-W-D.
Key events
- 15'Yellow card · Maikel Kieftenbeld
- 57'Yellow card · Kristian Pedersen
- 84'Second yellow · Kristian Pedersen
- 85'Penalty goal · Troy Deeney
- 90+1'Yellow card · Étienne Capoue
Head-to-head
Team news
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Birmingham City line-up (3-5-2)
Neil Etheridge, M. Roberts, Mikel San José, Jake Clarke-Salter, Josh Dacres-Cogley, Gary Gardner, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Ivan Šunjić, Kristian Pedersen, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Jonathan Leko
Watford line-up (4-1-4-1)
Ben Foster, Jeremy Ngakia, William Troost-Ekong, Ben Wilmot, Kiko Femenía, Nathaniel Chalobah, Domingos Quina, James Garner, Tom Cleverley, Ken Sema, Troy Deeney