Everton 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 3 November 2007

Result

Everton 3-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 3 November 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Everton 3-1 Birmingham City: match report

Everton beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 November 2007. The half-time score was 1-0.

Yakubu Aiyegbeni opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Everton's goals came from Yakubu Aiyegbeni (10'), L. Carsley (90+2') and James Vaughan (90+3'). Birmingham City scored through Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou (80').

Discipline: Everton received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Everton were 9th on 16 points from 11 and Birmingham City 13th on 11 points from 11. Everton went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 35.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Everton wins, 4 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.

Going into the match Everton's last five read W-L-L-W-L and Birmingham City's W-L-L-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Yakubu AiyegbeniEverton · 1-0
  • 38'Yellow card · Stephen KellyBirmingham City
  • 80'Goal · Narcisse-Olivier Kapo ObouBirmingham City · 1-1
  • 90+2'Goal · L. CarsleyEverton · 2-1
  • 90+3'Goal · James VaughanEverton · 3-1

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Everton 3, draws 4, Birmingham City 1.

Team news

Everton expected line-up

Tim Howard, Joseph Yobo, Joleon Lescott, Leon Osman, James Beattie, James McFadden, Andy Johnson, Nuno Valente, Alan Stubbs, Lee Kevin Carsley

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, Rafael Schmitz, Liam Ridgewell, Johan Djourou, Sebastian Larsson, Fabrice Muamba, Cameron Jerome, Daniel De Ridder, Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou, Mehdi Nafti