Birmingham 1 – West Brom 0: The Baggies unable to avoid defeat at St Andrew’s Stadium
On Sunday, West Bromwich Albion suffer an away defeat to Birmingham City at St Andrew’s Stadium. With both teams drawing in their previous fixtures, they were keen to pick up points. Birmingham wanted to improve their league standing after a scoreless draw against Swansea City in their previous match. West Brom are struggling for form following a draw in their last match. As things stand, Birmingham are in 18th place, with 45 points from 40 matches, while West Brom sit in 12th, with 54 points from 40.
After an un-eventful first half, Birmingham applied pressure in the second, thanks to Lyle Taylor giving Blues the lead, 67 minutes in. When the final wisthle blew, the result was 1-0 to Birmingham.
Birmingham brought on Taylor Richards, Ivan Sunjic and Lukas Jutkiewicz for Tahith Chong, Juninho Bacuna and Lyle Taylor. West Brom brought on Grady Diangana, Andy Carroll and Adam Reach, to replace Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Karlan Grant and Conor Townsend.
The referee booked Lyle Taylor and Juninho Bacuna for Birmingham.
Birmingham will next travel to Nottingham Forest, while West Brom will face Stoke City at home.
| Technical card: | |
|---|---|
| Birmingham City: | Neil Etheridge, Juninho Bacuna (Ivan Sunjic, min.85), Nico Gordon, Maxime Colin, Onel Hernandez, Lyle Taylor (Lukas Jutkiewicz, min.90), Gary Gardner, Scott Hogan, Tahith Chong (Taylor Richards, min.56), Marc Roberts and Kristian Pedersen |
| West Bromwich Albion: | Sam Johnstone, Matt Clarke, Taylor Gardner-Hickman (Grady Diangana, min.60), Darnell Furlong, Karlan Grant (Andy Carroll, min.68), Alex Mowatt, Jake Livermore, Callum Robinson, Semi Ajayi, Kyle Bartley and Conor Townsend (Adam Reach, min.76) |
| Stadium: | St Andrew’s Stadium |
| Goals: | Lyle Taylor (1-0, min. 67) |
