Everton 1-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 20 December 2009
Result
Everton 1-1 Birmingham City
Premier League · Sunday 20 December 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Everton 1-1 Birmingham City: match report
Everton drew with Birmingham City 1-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 20 December 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Everton's goal came from Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (5'). Birmingham City scored through Sebastian Larsson (22').
Discipline: Everton received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 16th on 17 points from 16 and Birmingham City 8th on 27 points from 17. Everton went on to finish that season 8th with 61 points, and Birmingham City 9th with 50.
Everton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Everton wins, 5 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Everton's last five read D-D-L-L-L and Birmingham City's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
- 22'Goal · Sebastian Larsson
- 78'Yellow card · Sebastian Larsson
- 84'Yellow card · Joe Hart
- 87'Yellow card · Cameron Jerome
Head-to-head
Team news
Everton line-up (4-4-2)
Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, Leighton Baines, Lucas Neill, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Steven Pienaar, Leon Osman, Marouane Fellaini, Louis Saha, Tim Cahill, Johnny Heitinga
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Joe Hart, Stephen Carr, Liam Ridgewell, Roger Johnson, Scott Dann, Sebastian Larsson, Cameron Jerome, Christian Benitez Betancourt, James McFadden, Lee Bowyer, Barry Ferguson