Birmingham City 0-2 Fulham (2024-25 EFL Cup 2nd Round)

Tue 27 Aug 2024 20:00	Birmingham City	(0) 0-2 (2)	Fulham	St Andrew's, Birmingham, West Midlands Attendance: 11,949 Referee: Keith Stroud
		Report	Jiménez  10' (pen) Stansfield  14'

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BIRMINGHAM CITY (4-2-3-1) GK 21 Ryan Allsop DR 2 Ethan Laird 73' DC 4 Christoph Klarer DC 6 Krystian Bielik (c) DL 20 Alex Cochrane DM 13 Paik Seung-ho 82' DM 12 Marc Leonard AMR 14 Keshi Anderson 62' AMC 18 Willum Þór Willumsson AML 7 Emil Hansson 62' ST 9 Alfie May 56' 61' Substitutes: GK 45 Bailey Peacock-Farrell DF 23 Alfons Sampsted 73' DF 25 Ben Davies MF 27 Brandon Khela MF 35 George Hall FW 8 Tyler Roberts 61' FW 10 Lukas Jutkiewicz 82' FW 11 Kōji Miyoshi 62' FW 33 Ayumu Yokoyama 62' Manager: Chris Davies

FULHAM (4-2-3-1) GK 23 Steven Benda DR 21 Timothy Castagne DC 5 Joachim Andersen DC 15 Jorge Cuenca DL 30 Ryan Sessegnon DM 6 Harrison Reed 49' 87' DM 16 Sander Berge 65' AMR 8 Harry Wilson 87' AMC 10 Tom Cairney (c) 78' AML 28 Jay Stansfield 78' ST 7 Raúl Jiménez Substitutes: GK 1 Bernd Leno DF 2 Kenny Tete DF 3 Calvin Bassey MF 20 Saša Lukić 78' MF 24 Josh King 65' MF 32 Emile Smith Rowe 87' FW 9 Rodrigo Muniz FW 11 Adama Traoré 87' 90+1' FW 17 Alex Iwobi 78' Manager: Marco Silva

Assistant referees: Ian Cooper Richard Woodward Fourth official: Darren Drysdale Previous Meeting: Fulham 6-2 Birmingham City (2021-22 Championship) (18 Jan 2022) Following Meeting: n/a Trivia Steven Benda, Jorge Cuenca & Sander Berge make their Fulham debuts Joachim Andersen & Ryan Sessegnon make their second Fulham debuts, having both returned to the club Josh King makes his first team debut Statistics Birmingham City Fulham Possession 57% 43% Total shots 16 8 Shots on target 4 2 Shots off target 7 3 Shots blocked 5 3 Corner kicks 11 3 Fouls conceded 16 18 Offsides 2 1 Yellow cards 1 2 Red cards 0 0 Total passes 576 447 Passing success 90% 87% Tackles - - Tackles success --% --% Clearances - - Images 0-1: After Alex Cochrane had blocked a Tom Cairney shot on the edge of the area, referee Keith Stroud pointed to the spot after it had come off the Birmingham defender's arm. Raúl Jiménez stepped up and cooly slotted the ball past Allsop from the penalty spot in the 10th minute 0-2: Jay Stansfield scores four minutes later when latching onto a long ball from Joachim Andersen as he controls and bends a finish into the right hand corner of the net Highlights 2024-25 season Pre-season: QPR (h) • Watford (h) • Benfica (n) • Sevilla (n) • Hoffenheim (a) Additional friendly - Hoffenheim XI (a) Premier League: Man Utd (a) • Leicester (h) • Ipswich (a) • West Ham (h) • Newcastle (h) • Nottm Forest (a) • Man City (a) • Aston Villa (h) • Everton (a) • Brentford (h) • Crystal Palace (a) • Wolves (h) • Tottenham (a) • Brighton (h) • Arsenal (h) • Liverpool (a) • Southampton (h) • Chelsea (a) • Bournemouth (h) • Ipswich (h) • West Ham (a) • Leicester (h) • Man Utd (h) • Newcastle (a) • Nottm Forest (h) • Crystal Palace (h) • Wolves (a) • Brighton (a) • Tottenham (h) • Arsenal (a) • Liverpool (h) • Bournemouth (a) • Chelsea (h) • Southampton (a) • Aston Villa (a) • Everton (h) • Brentford (a) • Man City (h) FA Cup: 3rd round: tbd EFL Cup: 2nd round: Birmingham (a) • 3rd round: Preston (a)