Birmingham City 2-3 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2020
Result
Birmingham City 2-3 Wigan Athletic
Championship · Wednesday 1 January 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Birmingham City 2-3 Wigan Athletic: match report
Birmingham City were beaten by Wigan Athletic 2-3 in the Championship on Wednesday 1 January 2020. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Josh Windass opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Kerim Mrabti (39') and Jacques Maghoma (81'). Wigan Athletic scored through Josh Windass (9'), Josh Windass (50') and C. Kipré (73').
Discipline: Birmingham City received no yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 18th on 29 points from 25 and Wigan Athletic 24th on 20 points from 25. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 50 points, and Wigan Athletic 13th with 59.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Josh Windass of Wigan Athletic (7.8), ahead of Cédric Kipré (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Wigan Athletic.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Josh Windass
- 39'Goal · Kerim Mrabti
- 50'Goal · Josh Windass
- 51'Yellow card · Joe Williams
- 73'Goal · C. Kipré
- 81'Goal · Jacques Maghoma
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Connal Trueman, Maxime Colin, Gary Gardner, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Jude Bellingham, Ivan Šunjić, Josh McEachran, Jérémie Bela, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Kerim Mrabti
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jamie Jones, Nathan Byrne, Cédric Kipré, Kal Naismith, Antonee Robinson, Lee Evans, Sam Morsy, Jamal Lowe, Joe Williams, Michael Jacobs, Josh Windass