Bristol Rovers 1-2 Birmingham City: result and report
League One · Tuesday 1 April 2025
Result
Bristol Rovers 1-2 Birmingham City
League One · Tuesday 1 April 2025, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Bristol Rovers 1-2 Birmingham City: match report
Bristol Rovers were beaten by Birmingham City 1-2 in the League One on Tuesday 1 April 2025. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Keshi Anderson opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Bristol Rovers's goal came from Gatlin O'Donkor (19'). Birmingham City scored through Keshi Anderson (3') and Jay Stansfield (85', penalty).
Discipline: Bristol Rovers received 4 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 20th on 42 points from 39 and Birmingham City 1st on 86 points from 37. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 43 points, and Birmingham City 1st with 111.
Bristol Rovers lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Keshi Anderson of Birmingham City (8.1), ahead of Kieran Dowell (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Bristol Rovers wins, 0 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Keshi Anderson
- 19'Goal · Gatlin O'Donkor
- 48'Yellow card · Jed Ward
- 56'Yellow card · Kofi Shaw
- 59'Yellow card · Ben Davies
- 84'Yellow card · Ruel Sotiriou
- 85'Penalty goal · Jay Stansfield
- 90'Yellow card · Connor Taylor
Head-to-head
Team news
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Bristol Rovers line-up (4-1-4-1)
Jed Ward, Taylor Moore, James Wilson, Connor Taylor, Clinton Mola, R. Sawyers, Shaq Forde, Kofi Shaw, Matt Butcher, Ruel Sotiriou, Gatlin O'Donkor
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Ryan Allsop, Ethan Laird, Christoph Klarer, Ben Davies, Alex Cochrane, Tomoki Iwata, M. Leonard, Kieran Dowell, Willum Thór Willumsson, Keshi Anderson, Jay Stansfield