Birmingham City 1-3 Wolverhampton Wanderers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 20 August 2016
Result
Birmingham City 1-3 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Championship · Saturday 20 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Birmingham City 1-3 Wolverhampton Wanderers: match report
Birmingham City lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 20 August 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Ché Adams opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Ché Adams (24'). Wolverhampton Wanderers scored through Joe Mason (47'), D. Batth (61') and Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (89').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card and 2 red cards; Wolverhampton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 6th on 5 points from 3 and Wolverhampton Wanderers 8th on 5 points from 3. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Wolverhampton Wanderers 14th with 58.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to David Cotterill of Birmingham City (7.4), ahead of Stephen Gleeson (7.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 4 for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Key events
- 24'Goal · Ché Adams
- 41'Yellow card · J. Price
- 47'Goal · Joe Mason
- 61'Goal · D. Batth
- 78'Yellow card · David Davis
- 83'Red card · Jack Storer
- 83'Red card · Jack Storer
- 83'Yellow card · Kortney Hause
- 89'Goal · Jón Dadi Bödvarsson
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tomasz Kuszczak, Jonathan Spector, Michael Morrison, Ryan Shotton, Jonathan Grounds, David Davis, Stephen Gleeson, David Cotterill, Ché Adams, Jacques Maghoma, Clayton Donaldson
Wolverhampton Wanderers expected line-up (4-3-3)
Carl Ikeme, Danny Batth, Dominic Iorfa, Matt Doherty, Dave Edwards, Conor Coady, K. McDonald, Lee Evans, Benik Afobe, Richard Stearman