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Sunday November 11, 2007 Finished St Andrews

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Birmingham City

  • Forssell 61’

Aston Villa

  • Ridgewell 10’ (o.g.)
  • Agbonlahor 86’
  1. Villa snatch derby win

    Villa snatch derby win

    Aston Villa got one over their local rivals with a 2-1 victory over Birmingham City at St Andrews. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Birmingham City
    • Aston Villa
    • 90+4 All over in the Birmingham derby, and Villa take the spoils! Birmingham were so unlucky! Stick around for the rest of today's Premier League action!
    • 90+2 The away fans are singing Agbonlahor's name to the tune of Kaerma Chameleon! The Birmingham fans are rather silent!
    • 89' Villa have a free kick now on the edge of the box. Young whack it into the wall and hooks the rebound into touch. There will be four minutes of added time.
    • 86' Young swings in a great cross and Gabriel Agbinlahor outjumps Ridgewell to glance it into the far corner! First he saves one off the line, and now he may have won it for his team! Bennett brings him down to earth by booking him for his celebration. Why can't you be happy about scoring a winning goal anymore?
    • 86' GOAL!! Villa have the lead again!
    • 82' The corner comes in and RIDGEWELL... OFF THE LINE!! Ridgwell headed it right towards the bottom corner but Agbonlahor does briiliantly to knock it round the post for another corner! So close for Brum!
    • 81' Scmitz times his run well on the left and whips in a good cross that Young has to slice away for a corner. Carson comes and doesn't collect! Knight clears for another corner!
    • 79' Villa are having a lot of possession around the Birmingham box at the moment but are struggling to break them down.
    • 76' O'Connor makes an immediate impact as he wins a corner for Birmingham. It comes in at the near post and RIDGEWELL... The Birmingham captain headed over!
    • 74' Now Birmingham make their change planned before Nafti went off, as Garry O'Connor replaces Cameron Jerome.
    • 71' Steve Bruce immediately brings on Sebastian Larsson on for Nafti.
    • 69' Mehdi Nafti is recieving treatment after landing awkwardy jumping for a header. He's being stretchered off. It doesn't look good for him.
    • 68' Villa have plenty in the box here. Zat Knight lofts the ball over to REO-COKER... an awful miss from six yards out by the midfielder!
    • 66' Cameron Jerome is in the box and SHOOTS FROM A TIGHT ANGLE... GREAT SAVE CARSON!! He saw it late but got a hand to the powerful shot and turned it away and out of danger!
    • 64' Young gets to the byline and cuts it back for Carew... Ridgewell sweeps in to intercept it. The own goal hasn't affected him at all.
    • 62' Daniel De Ridder whips in a good first time cross and the substitute is completely unmarked as he heads it past Carson! St Andrews erupts! Now we have a derby!
    • 62' GOAL!! Forssell equalises for Birmingham!
    • 61' Petrov completely stacks it in midfield and loses possession. He was like a Giraffe on roller skates then!
    • 59' Forssell is fed by Muamba on the edge of the box. He turns and has a go, but a deflection takes the sting out of the shot and it rolls towards Carson.
    • 58' Young teases De Ridder towards the corner flag and kicks it against him to win a corner. The linesman gives a goal kick! Young looks in shock!
    • 53' Stephen Kelly goes into the book for a foul on Ashley Young. He's contained Young well up until now, but carrying a booking is going to make it harder for him now.
    • 53' Reo-Coker puts a cross in, but it's wayward and goes out for a goal kick.
    • 50' Muamba goes in with a shin-high challenge on Petrov. Surely that's a booking! It was high and dangerous, and could have done Petrov serious injury.
    • 48' Villa clear and Agbonlahor is sprinting to get to the long ball. Rafael Schmitz hustles him off the ball. Agbonlahor is so quick, but the full back has dealt with him well so far.
    • 47' Zat Knight hacks away a long kick forward from Maik Taylor. Schmitz takes the throw and he picks out Jerome, who chests, turns and SHOOTS! Knight did well to get a foot in and concede the corner.
    • 46' Mikael Forsell gets a huge cheer from the Birmingham fans as he comes on for the second half in place of Wilson Palacios. The second half is underway!
    • 45+2 That's the last action of the half. Birmingham will be gutted that they had not one but two decent shouts for a penalty turned down by Steve Bennett.
    • 45+2 Barry plays it out to Young in the box this time. Again Kelly stays strong and stops him in his tracks.
    • 45' There will be two minutes of added time. Stephen Kelly shepherds Ashley Young out wide and wins the goal kick. Good defending.
    • 43' Carew flicks on a long ball to Agbonlahor, who aims for the near post. Saved by Taylor!
    • 40' The Birmingham fans are chanting "We shall not be moved", but it's been all Villa for the past ten minutes or so.
    • 36' Kelly and Djourou get in each other's way as they both jump to head a long ball. It breaks for CAREW... He strikes his half-volley wildly into the crowd.
    • 35' The free kick is cleared but Villa come again and Barry wins a corner. Bennett blows up for some pushing in the box, and Birmingham get the free kick.
    • 34' Young beats Palacios on the left wing and goes forward. De Ridder barges him over! He's got to be careful now!
    • 31' Jerome passes it across to De Ridder, who turns and goes down in the box! NO PENALTY! Steve Bennett books Daniel De Ridder for diving! Laursen swung his leg at him and there was contact, but the referee thought not!
    • 28' De Ridder on the right tries to shoot for Birmingham but his effort is blocked. Soon after Olivier Kapo hits one - and it dribbles wide.
    • 24' Ashley Young shapes to shoot and finds the fans behind the goal rather than the top corner.
    • 22' Villa are the more dangerous of the two sides at present. Brum just don't have any sort of cutting edge.
    • 19' Djourou is still receiving treatment after that Barry challenge.
    • 17' Carew into the area on the left and shoots from an angle... good save by Maik Taylor.
    • 14' Gareth Barry is booked for catching Johan Djourou late.
    • 10' Stiliyan Petrov crossed low and the ball rebounded off Liam Ridgewell's knee - he used to play for the Villa too! The away fans sing his name ironically.
    • 10' VILLA OPEN THE SCORING IN THE HOME OF THEIR GREATEST RIVALS!!
    • 9' John Carew finds space in penalty area and the Villa fans are hopeful... he cannot get a clean shot away though... corner kick to Villa.
    • 8' Daniel de Ridder hits a free-kick at goal that Nigel Reo-Coker blocks. Early pressure from City.
    • 4' The ball hits Zat Knight's arm in the box and Birmingham want a penalty kick... The ref says no as it was unintentional.
    • 1' This Birmingham derby match gets underway!!! Brum in blue and white, kicking from left to right. Villa in traditional claret and blue.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE text commentary on Birmingham City v Aston Villa from St Andrews.

  • Team Stats

    Birmingham City Stats Aston Villa
    51% Possession 48%
    15 Shots 16
    5 Shots on target 3
    0 Saves 0
    8 Corners 5
    8 Fouls 17
    0 Offsides 2
    3 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    44 Tackles 19
    207 Accurate passes 192
    36 Bad passes 57

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Birmingham City
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Maik Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 0
      16 Johan Djourou 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 16 1 5
      5 Rafael Schmitz 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 25 13 12
      2 Stephen Kelly 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 19 1 5
      6 Liam Ridgewell 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 12 1 3
      23 Olivier Kapo 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 14 4 3
      26 Fabrice Muamba 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 27 2 8
      12 Mehdi Nafti 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 29 3 5
      20 Daniel De Ridder 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 20 1 2
      28 Wilson Palacios 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 16 3 0
      10 Cameron Jerome 0 4 1 2 1 0 0 11 3 1
      9 Mikael Forssell 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
      8 Garry O'Connor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0
      7 Sebastian Larsson 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 0
      18 Richard Kingson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Gary McSheffrey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Aston Villa
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      22 Scott Carson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 4 0
      16 Zatyiah Knight 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 2
      3 Wilfred Bouma 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 21 11 1
      4 Olof Mellberg 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16 1 4
      5 Martin Laursen 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 19 2 1
      20 Nigel Reo-Coker 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 11 1 3
      19 Stilian Petrov 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 21 2 3
      6 Gareth Barry 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 35 8 3
      10 John Carew 0 5 1 3 1 0 0 11 8 0
      11 Gabriel Agbonlahor 1 3 2 1 2 2 0 16 5 0
      7 Ashley Young 0 4 0 0 4 0 1 20 14 2
      15 Curtis Davies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      13 Stuart Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      8 Luke Moore 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 0
      28 Shaun Maloney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Craig Gardner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 86' GOAL!! Villa have the lead again!
    • 82' The corner comes in and RIDGEWELL... OFF THE LINE!! Ridgwell headed it right towards the bottom corner but Agbonlahor does briiliantly to knock it round the post for another corner! So close for Brum!
    • 66' Cameron Jerome is in the box and SHOOTS FROM A TIGHT ANGLE... GREAT SAVE CARSON!! He saw it late but got a hand to the powerful shot and turned it away and out of danger!
    • 62' GOAL!! Forssell equalises for Birmingham!
    • 17' Carew into the area on the left and shoots from an angle... good save by Maik Taylor.
    • 10' VILLA OPEN THE SCORING IN THE HOME OF THEIR GREATEST RIVALS!!
    • 4' The ball hits Zat Knight's arm in the box and Birmingham want a penalty kick... The ref says no as it was unintentional.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE text commentary on Birmingham City v Aston Villa from St Andrews.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Stephen Graham Bennett

  • Birmingham City

    Manager: Steve Bruce

    Captain: Liam Ridgewell

    On the Field

    • Taylor
    • Kelly
    • Ridgewell
    • Schmitz
    • Djourou
    • Muamba
    • Nafti
    • Palacios
    • De Ridder
    • Jerome
    • Kapo

    Subs

    • Forssell
    • McSheffrey
    • Larsson
    • O'Connor
    • Kingson

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Aston Villa

    Manager: Martin O'Neill

    Captain: Gareth Barry

    On the Field

    • Carson
    • Mellberg
    • Knight
    • Laursen
    • Bouma
    • Young
    • Petrov
    • Reo-Coker
    • Barry
    • Carew
    • Agbonlahor

    Subs

    • Taylor
    • Maloney
    • Moore
    • Davies
    • Gardner

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None