Norwich City 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Friday 18 January 2019
Result
Norwich City 3-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Friday 18 January 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-1
Norwich City 3-1 Birmingham City: match report
Norwich City beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the Championship on Friday 18 January 2019. It was 3-1 at half-time.
Teemu Pukki opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Norwich City's goals came from Teemu Pukki (13'), Mario Vrancic (22') and Tom Trybull (25'). Birmingham City scored through Ché Adams (14').
Discipline: Norwich City received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Norwich City were 3rd on 50 points from 27 and Birmingham City 8th on 39 points from 27. Norwich City went on to finish that season 1st with 94 points, and Birmingham City 14th with 61.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Emiliano Buendía of Norwich City (8.2), ahead of Tom Trybull (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Norwich City wins, 5 draws and 1 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 13'Goal · Teemu Pukki
- 14'Goal · Ché Adams
- 22'Goal · Mario Vrancic
- 25'Goal · Tom Trybull
- 27'Yellow card · Maikel Kieftenbeld
- 29'Yellow card · Kristian Pedersen
- 80'Yellow card · Craig Gardner
- 87'Yellow card · Michael Morrison
Head-to-head
Team news
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Tim Krul, Max Aarons, Christoph Zimmermann, Ben Godfrey, Jamal Lewis, Tom Trybull, Mario Vrančić, Emiliano Buendía, Marco Stiepermann, Onel Hernández, Teemu Pukki
Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)
Lee Camp, Maxime Colin, Michael Morrison, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Jota Peleteiro, Gary Gardner, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Jacques Maghoma, Ché Adams, Lukas Jutkiewicz