English League Championship

FT Friday, August 29, 2025
Birmingham City DWWWL 0
–
Leicester City LWLLW 2
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LEI112
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Team Stats

16
Fouls
11
3
Yellow Cards
3
0
Red Cards
0
1
Offsides
0
7
Corner Kicks
1
0
Saves
1
54.9
Possession
45.1
11
SHOTS
5
1
ON GOAL
2
0.1
On Target %
0.4
0
Penalty Goals
0
0
Penalty Kicks Taken
0
374
Accurate Passes
291
453
Passes
380
0.8
Pass Completion %
0.8
3
Accurate Crosses
3
19
Crosses
4
0.2
Cross %
0.8
49
Long Balls
50
24
Accurate Long Balls
11
0.5
Long Balls %
0.2
6
Blocked Shots
0
13
Effective Tackles
13
21
Tackles
20
0.6
Tackle %
0.7
13
Interceptions
9
21
Effective Clearances
31
21
Clearances
31

Head to Head

LEI leads series 5-0

Lineups

LEI · 4-2-3-1

  1. 1Jakub StolarczykG
  2. 23Jannik VestergaardCD-L
  3. 5Caleb OkoliCD-R
  4. 33Luke ThomasLB
  5. 17Hamza ChoudhuryRB
  6. 25Louis PageAM
  7. 22Oliver SkippLM
  8. 24Boubakary SoumaréRM
  9. 9Jordan AyewF
  10. 10Stephy MavididiAM-L
  11. 7Fatawu IssahakuAM-R

BIR · 4-4-1-1

  1. 21Ryan AllsopG
  2. 4Christoph KlarerCD-L
  3. 5Phil NeumannCD-R
  4. 2Ethan LairdLB
  5. 26Bright Osayi-SamuelRB
  6. 8Paik Seung-HoCM-L
  7. 24Tomoki IwataCM-R
  8. 10Demarai GrayLM
  9. 18Willum Thór WillumssonRM
  10. 9Kyogo FuruhashiF
  11. 30Lewis KoumasRCF

Timeline

  1. 8' Goal! Leicester City 1, Birmingham City 0. Abdul Fatawu (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Louis Page.
  2. 45' Hamza Choudhury (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  3. 56' Substitution, Leicester City. Patson Daka replaces Louis Page.
  4. 57' Abdul Fatawu (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  5. 62' Kyogo Furuhashi (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  6. 64' Christoph Klarer (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  7. 66' Substitution, Birmingham City. Keshi Anderson replaces Willum Willumsson.
  8. 71' Substitution, Leicester City. Jeremy Monga replaces Stephy Mavididi.
  9. 72' Substitution, Leicester City. Ricardo Pereira replaces Hamza Choudhury because of an injury.
  10. 74' Demarai Gray (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  11. 76' Ricardo Pereira (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  12. 77' Substitution, Birmingham City. Tommy Doyle replaces Lewis Koumas.
  13. 77' Substitution, Birmingham City. Marvin Ducksch replaces Kyogo Furuhashi because of an injury.
  14. 85' Substitution, Birmingham City. Lyndon Dykes replaces Phil Neumann.
  15. 87' Substitution, Leicester City. Wout Faes replaces Abdul Fatawu because of an injury.
  16. 88' Goal! Leicester City 2, Birmingham City 0. Ricardo Pereira (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jeremy Monga with a cross.

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