Sheffield Wednesday 4-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 15 March 2014
Result
Sheffield Wednesday 4-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 15 March 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Sheffield Wednesday 4-1 Birmingham City: match report
Sheffield Wednesday won against Birmingham City 4-1 in the Championship on Saturday 15 March 2014. The half-time score was 2-0.
Caolan Lavery opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Sheffield Wednesday's goals came from Caolan Lavery (16'), Leon Best (21'), an own goal by Will Packwood (58') and Caolan Lavery (68'). Birmingham City scored through Lee Novak (81').
Discipline: Sheffield Wednesday received 1 yellow card; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sheffield Wednesday were 16th on 40 points from 34 and Birmingham City 17th on 38 points from 35. Sheffield Wednesday went on to finish that season 16th with 54 points, and Birmingham City 21st with 45.
Sheffield Wednesday 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 1 Sheffield Wednesday win, 2 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.
Going into the match Sheffield Wednesday's last five read L-L-W-W-L and Birmingham City's D-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Caolan Lavery
- 17'Yellow card · Caolan Lavery
- 21'Goal · Leon Best
- 58'Own goal · Will Packwood
- 65'Yellow card · Jonathan Spector
- 68'Goal · Caolan Lavery
- 81'Goal · Lee Novak
Head-to-head
Team news
Sheffield Wednesday expected line-up (4-4-2)
Chris Kirkland, Reda Johnson, Miguel Angel Llera, Kamil Zayatte, Roger Johnson, Jordan Spence, Michail Antonio, Atdhe Nuhiu, Giles Coke
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