Doncaster Rovers 1-3 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 5 April 2014
Result
Doncaster Rovers 1-3 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 5 April 2014, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Doncaster Rovers 1-3 Birmingham City: match report
Doncaster Rovers were beaten by Birmingham City 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 5 April 2014. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Paul Quinn opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Doncaster Rovers's goal came from Paul Quinn (36'). Birmingham City scored through Federico Macheda (57'), Lee Novak (71') and Federico Macheda (76').
Discipline: Doncaster Rovers received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Doncaster Rovers were 18th on 43 points from 39 and Birmingham City 20th on 41 points from 39. Doncaster Rovers went on to finish that season 22nd with 44 points, and Birmingham City 21st with 45.
Doncaster Rovers lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-5-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Doncaster Rovers wins, 1 draw and 4 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Doncaster Rovers's last five read W-L-W-D-W and Birmingham City's L-W-L-L-D.
Key events
- 21'Yellow card · Paul Keegan
- 36'Goal · Paul Quinn
- 57'Goal · Federico Macheda
- 69'Yellow card · Jonathan Spector
- 71'Goal · Lee Novak
- 76'Goal · Federico Macheda
- 85'Yellow card · Nikola Zigic
- 90+3'Yellow card · C. Reilly
Head-to-head
Team news
Doncaster Rovers expected line-up (4-4-2)
Ross Turnbull, Bongani Khumalo, Paul Quinn, Paul Keegan, Dean Furman, Mark Duffy, Richard Wellens, Chris Brown, Federico Macheda, Theo Robinson, Rob Jones
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-5-1)
Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, C. Burke, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Oliver Lee, Nikola Zigic