Fulham 2-3 Birmingham City: result and report
Premier League · Tuesday 28 December 2004
Result
Fulham 2-3 Birmingham City
Premier League · Tuesday 28 December 2004, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Fulham 2-3 Birmingham City: match report
Fulham were beaten by Birmingham City 2-3 in the Premier League on Tuesday 28 December 2004. It was 1-2 at half-time.
Emile Heskey opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Fulham's goals came from Sylvain Legwinski (34') and Tomasz Radzinski (90'). Birmingham City scored through Emile Heskey (25'), Darren Carter (41') and Robbie Savage (53').
Discipline: Fulham received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Fulham were 15th on 18 points from 19 and Birmingham City 12th on 23 points from 19. Fulham went on to finish that season 13th with 44 points, and Birmingham City 12th with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Fulham wins, 3 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Fulham's last five read L-L-D-W-L and Birmingham City's W-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Emile Heskey
- 34'Goal · Sylvain Legwinski
- 41'Goal · Darren Carter
- 53'Goal · Robbie Savage
- 67'Yellow card · Zeshan Rehman
- 90'Goal · Tomasz Radzinski
Head-to-head
Team news
Fulham line-up
Edwin van der Sar, Moritz Volz, Carlos Bocanegra, Zat Knight, Ian Pearce, Sylvain Legwinski, Papa Diop, Brian McBride, Andy Cole, Collins John, Tomasz Radzinski
Birmingham City expected line-up
Maik Taylor, Matthew Upson, Mario Melchiot, Kenny Cunningham, Julian Gray, Robbie Savage, Jesper Gronkjaer, Darren Anderton, Emile Heskey, Damien Johnson, David Dunn