Fulham 2-5 Birmingham City (2015-16 Championship)

Sat 7 Nov 2015 15:00	Fulham	(0) 2-5 (3)	Birmingham City	Craven Cottage, Fulham, London Attendance: 18,888 Referee: Iain Williamson
	Kačaniklić  66' McCormack  90+3' Husband  49'	Report	Gleeson  19' Caddis  22' (pen) Toral  31' Donaldson  82' Solomon-Otabor  90+5'

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FULHAM (4-3-2-1) GK 12 Joe Lewis 22' DR 13 Tim Ream DC 5 Richard Stearman DC 33 Dan Burn DL 40 James Husband 48'  49' MRC 21 Lasse Vigen Christensen 46' MC 23 Jamie O'Hara MLC 19 Ryan Tunnicliffe 74' AMRC 10 Tom Cairney AMLC 44 Ross McCormack (c) 67' ST 25 Moussa Dembélé 55' Substitutes: GK 42 Marek Rodák DF 3 Luke Garbutt 74' DF 4 Shaun Hutchinson MF 8 Scott Parker MF 11 Alex Kačaniklić 46' FW 9 Matt Smith 55' FW 16 Cauley Woodrow Manager: Kit Symons

LEEDS UNITED (4-2-3-1) GK 29 Tomasz Kuszczak DR 31 Paul Caddis DC 28 Michael Morrison (c) DC 23 Jonathan Spector DL 3 Jonathan Grounds DM 8 Stephen Gleeson DM 26 David Davis AMR 7 Demarai Gray AMC 20 Jon Toral 80' AML 19 Jacques Maghoma 75' ST 9 Clayton Donaldson Substitutes: GK 1 Adam Legzdins DF 25 Shane Lowry MF 6 Maikel Kieftenbeld 75' MF 17 Viv Solomon-Otabor 80' MF 18 Reece Brown MF 22 Andrew Shinnie FW 44 Nicolai Brock-Madsen Manager: Gary Rowett

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Assistant referees: Stuart Butler Daniel Robathan Fourth official: Lee Collins Previous Meeting: Fulham 1-1 Birmingham City (2014-15 Championship) (7 Feb 2015) Following Meeting: Birmingham City 1-1 Fulham (2015-16 Championship) (19 Mar 2016) Trivia Kit Symons takes charge of his final match for Fulham before his sacking the following day

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Statistics

	Fulham	Birmingham City
Possession	60%	40%
Shots on target	6	8
Shots off target	8	9
Shots blocked	2	2
Corner kicks	3	6
Fouls conceded	9	12
Offsides	0	3
Yellow cards	3	0
Red cards	1	0
Total passes	485	325
Passing success	80%	74%
Tackles	14	15
Tackles success	64%	87%
Total crosses	13	13
Successful crosses	15%	38%
Interceptions	11	12
Clearances	10	21

Images

0-1: Stephen Gleeson was left in acres of space to unleash a good finish from 25 yards out on 19 minutes

0-2: Only three minutes later, Joe Lewis had felled Clayton Donaldson in the area. Paul Caddis stepped up to put the visitors two in front

0-3: Jon Toral furthered the misery for Fulham as he smashed in a third from 10 yards out

After two foolish fouls straight after the inteval, James Husband gets himself sent off in the 49th minute following a needless lunge on David Davis

1-3: Alex Kačaniklić gave the Whites a glimmer of hope after slotting in from a tight angle off the post from Matt Smith's knock down

1-4: It was game over when Clayton Donaldson hit a rebound high into the roof of the net with ten minutes to go

2-4: Ross McCormack continued his goalscoring form with a late consolation as the ball fell for him to slot past Kuszczak

2-5: However, Birmingham would get the last say as they scored a fifth through Viv Solomon-Otabor as he burst into the Fulham area, jinxing past Stearman and finishing past Lewis

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