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Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland - February 25, 2006 / Premier League 2005/2006

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Premier League 2005/2006 - Round 27

St Andrew's Stadium - Birmingham - England

February 25, 2006

29 257

Birmingham City

1 - 0

Sunderland

Emile Heskey

39'

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25' - Substitution Damien Johnsonis substituted by Nicky Butt25

39' - Goal Emile Heskey39

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46' - Substitution Chris Suttonis substituted by DJ Campbell46

46' - Substitution Liam Lawrenceis substituted by Rory Delap photo Stephen Elliott

46' - Substitution Daryl Murphyis substituted by Stephen Elliott

75' - Substitution Muzzy Izzetis substituted by David Dunn75

82' - Substitution Gary Breenis substituted by Martin Woods

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Birmingham City

1 - 0

Sunderland

Birmingham City Sunderland

Team line-ups

Birmingham City

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

40Sutton46

Chris Sutton

England

B.date10/03/1973

Age32 years

H1m91

positionPlaymaker

16Heskey39

Emile Heskey

England

B.date11/01/1978

Age28 years

H1m88

positionStriker

21Gray

Julian Gray

England

B.date21/09/1979

Age26 years

H1m85

positionLeft Midfielder

6Izzet75

Muzzy Izzet

Turkey

B.date31/10/1974

Age31 years

H1m78

positionLeft central midfielder

22Johnson25

Damien Johnson

Northern Ireland

B.date18/11/1978

Age27 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

7Pennant

Jermaine Pennant

England

B.date15/01/1983

Age23 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

14Jarosik

Jiri Jarosik

Czech Republic

B.date27/10/1977

Age28 years

H1m94

positionRight central defender

8Latka

Martin Latka

Czech Republic

B.date28/09/1984

Age21 years

H1m92

positionCentral defender

2M. Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/11/1979

Age26 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

29Melchiot

Mario Melchiot

Netherlands

B.date04/11/1976

Age29 years

H1m88

positionRight full-back

1Maik Taylor

Maik Taylor

Northern Ireland

B.date04/09/1971

Age34 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Maik Taylor		34	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Martin Taylor		26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Jiri Jarosik		28	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Martin Latka		21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	D	Mario Melchiot		29	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Damien Johnson	25	27	142	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Muzzy Izzet	75	31	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Julian Gray		26	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Jermaine Pennant		23	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
40	F	Chris Sutton	46	32	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Emile Heskey	39	28	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Sunderland

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

16Kyle

Kevin Kyle

Scotland

B.date07/06/1981

Age24 years

H1m91

positionStriker

26Murphy46

Daryl Murphy

Republic of Ireland

B.date15/03/1983

Age22 years

H1m89

positionSecond striker

33Arca

Julio Arca

Argentina

B.date31/01/1981

Age25 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

18Leadbitter

Grant Leadbitter

England

B.date07/01/1986

Age20 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

8Whitehead

Dean Whitehead

England

B.date12/01/1982

Age24 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

7Lawrence46

Liam Lawrence

Republic of Ireland

B.date14/12/1981

Age24 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

32Hoyte

Justin Hoyte

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date20/11/1984

Age21 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

5Breen82

Gary Breen

Republic of Ireland

B.date12/12/1973

Age32 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

15Collins

Danny Collins

Wales

B.date06/08/1980

Age25 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

12Nosworthy

Nyron Nosworthy

Jamaica

B.date11/10/1980

Age25 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

1Davis

Kelvin Davis

England

B.date29/09/1976

Age29 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Kelvin Davis		29	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Gary Breen	82	32	106	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Nyron Nosworthy		25	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Danny Collins		25	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
32	D	Justin Hoyte		21	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Grant Leadbitter		20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	M	Julio Arca		25	172	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Dean Whitehead		24	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Liam Lawrence	46	24	61	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	F	Daryl Murphy	46	22	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Kevin Kyle		24	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
20	M	Nicky Butt	25	31	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	David Dunn	75	26	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
28	F	DJ Campbell	46	24	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
4	M	Rory Delap	46	29	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Martin Woods	82	20	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Stephen Elliott	46	22	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Muzzy Izzet

Stephen Clemence

OUT

Martin Taylor

Alex Bruce

OUT

Jiri Jarosik

Nicky Butt

OUT

Chris Sutton

Mikael Forssell

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Justin Hoyte

George McCartney

OUT

Daryl Murphy

Tommy Miller

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve Bruce

188

Success rate in this team:

34 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Bruce vs Sunderland

4 victories

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on February 25, 2006

Bruce vs McCarthy

3 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 25, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Mick McCarthy

146

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

McCarthy vs Birmingham City

2 victories

4 draws

4 losses

Latest figure on February 25, 2006

McCarthy vs Bruce

1 victory

1 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on February 25, 2006

Referee

Steve Bennett

8 victories	4 draws	12 losses	Birmingham City24 matches	General total	Sunderland21 matches	6 victories	4 draws	11 losses
1 victory	1 draw	2 losses	Birmingham City4 matches	Season total	Sunderland3 matches	0 victory	0 draw	3 losses
Latest figure on March 06, 2010					Latest figure on May 02, 2010

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Key figures

Birmingham City keeps its 4 consecutive wins vs Sunderland in Premier League running (since 23/11/2002). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 21/12/1929 (3 matches)

No Sunderland manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Mick McCarthy has reached 83% of losses in Premier League.

Sunderland keeps its 4 consecutive losses away from home running (since 28/01/2006).

Read the next 12 key stats

General ranking

16	Middlesbrough	28 pts	25 rd
17	West Bromwich Albion	26 pts	26 rd
18	Birmingham City	23 pts	26 rd
19	Portsmouth	18 pts	27 rd
20	Sunderland	10 pts	27 rd

General ranking

16	Middlesbrough	28 pts	25 rd
17	West Bromwich Albion	26 pts	26 rd
18	Birmingham City	23 pts	26 rd
19	Portsmouth	18 pts	27 rd
20	Sunderland	10 pts	27 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DBirmingham City 2-2 Manchester United28/12/2005

VBirmingham City 2-0 Wigan02/01/2006

VBirmingham City 2-0 Torquay United17/01/2006

VBirmingham City 5-0 Portsmouth21/01/2006

LBirmingham City 0-2 Arsenal04/02/2006

VBirmingham City 2-1 Reading07/02/2006

Overall

DReading 1-1 Birmingham City28/01/2006

DLiverpool 1-1 Birmingham City01/02/2006

LBirmingham City 0-2 Arsenal04/02/2006

VBirmingham City 2-1 Reading07/02/2006

LWest Ham 3-0 Birmingham City13/02/2006

VStoke City 0-1 Birmingham City19/02/2006

Current form

Away

LCharlton 2-0 Sunderland10/12/2005

LFulham 2-1 Sunderland02/01/2006

VWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Sunderland21/01/2006

LBrentford 2-1 Sunderland28/01/2006

LWest Ham 2-0 Sunderland04/02/2006

LBlackburn 2-0 Sunderland15/02/2006

Overall

VWest Bromwich Albion 0-1 Sunderland21/01/2006

LBrentford 2-1 Sunderland28/01/2006

LSunderland 0-3 Middlesbrough31/01/2006

LWest Ham 2-0 Sunderland04/02/2006

DSunderland 1-1 Tottenham12/02/2006

LBlackburn 2-0 Sunderland15/02/2006

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Drawless streak	5	4
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	2	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	3	1
Winless streak	3	5
Drawless streak	14	1
Goalless streak	2	1
Conceding streak	3	5

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

18	General ranking (Competition total)	20
18	General ranking (Home / Away)	19
166	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	606
18	FBDB index ranking (National)	20

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

25	Number of games (Competition total)	26
12	Number of games (Home / Away)	12
5	Victories (Competition total)	2
3	Victories (Home / Away)	2
5	Draws (Competition total)	4
2	Draws (Home / Away)	0
15	Losses (Competition total)	20
7	Losses (Home / Away)	10

Goals

21	Goals scored (Competition total)	18
14	Goals scored (Home / Away)	9
37	Goals conceded (Competition total)	48
16	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	21
0.84	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.69
1.17	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.75
1.48	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.85
1.33	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.75

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	11
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
13	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	11
5	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
8	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
4	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	4
0-1 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-2 (4 times)

Bookings

26	Yellow cards (Competition total)	39
10	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	25
6	Red cards (Competition total)	3
2	Red cards (Home / Away)	3

Key players

Jiri Jarosik	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Liam Lawrence
Walter Pandiani	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Liam Lawrence
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Dean Whitehead
David Dunn	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Steven Caldwell
David Dunn	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Steven Caldwell
Jiri Jarosik	1 goal during the last 4 matches	The fittest player	1 assist during the last 2 matches	Julio Arca

Historical head to head

Home

52 matches

25 v

12 d

15 l

75 gf

58 ga

Away

53 matches

11 v

8 d

34 l

57 gf

107 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Total

106 matches

37 v

20 d

49 l

134 gf

165 ga

Historical head to head

Home

53 matches

34 v

8 d

11 l

107 gf

57 ga

Away

52 matches

15 v

12 d

25 l

58 gf

75 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Total

106 matches

49 v

20 d

37 l

165 gf

134 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	April 05, 1958
Home	3 - 0	March 17, 1956

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 1	December 08, 1894
Away	7 - 2	April 13, 1936

Latest head to head

November 26, 2005 - Premier League 2005/2006

Sunderland

0 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

February 25, 2004 - FA Cup 2003/2004

Birmingham City

0 - 2

Sunderland logo Sunderland

February 14, 2004 - FA Cup 2003/2004

Sunderland

1 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

April 12, 2003 - Premier League 2002/2003

Birmingham City

2 - 0

Sunderland logo Sunderland

November 23, 2002 - Premier League 2002/2003

Sunderland

0 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Frank Worthington	2 goals	1980 - 1982
Denis Thwaites	1 goal	1964 - 1964
Noel Blake	1 goal	1983 - 1983
Toine Van Mierlo	1 goal	1982 - 1982
Stan Lynn	1 goal	1965 - 1965
Mikael Forssell	1 goal	2004 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/12/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Colin West	3 goals	1982 - 1983
Tom Ritchie	3 goals	1981 - 1981
Gary Rowell	2 goals	1980 - 1982
Nick Sharkey	2 goals	1964 - 1964
Tommy Smith	2 goals	2004 - 2004
Leighton James	2 goals	1984 - 1984

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/12/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

Pat Van Den Hauwe	6 matches	1981 - 1984
Ian Handysides	5 matches	1981 - 1983
Kenny Cunningham	5 matches	2002 - 2005
Kevan Broadhurst	5 matches	1981 - 1983
Jeff Kenna	4 matches	2002 - 2004
Bryan Hughes	4 matches	2002 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/12/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Shaun Elliott	8 matches	1977 - 1984
Gary Rowell	8 matches	1976 - 1983
Stan Cummins	6 matches	1980 - 1983
Colin West	5 matches	1982 - 1984
Chris Turner	5 matches	1980 - 1984
Barry Siddall	4 matches	1976 - 1982

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 05/12/1964. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Mike Hellawell

185 matches

44 matches

1958 - 1966

Tony Coton

87 matches

12 matches

1980 - 1996

Tony Towers

69 matches

27 matches

1976 - 1979

Jimmy Montgomery

66 matches

219 matches

1964 - 1979

Colin Todd

60 matches

148 matches

1966 - 1982

Frank Worthington

57 matches

19 matches

1980 - 1983

Total : 13 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/10/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Jimmy Montgomery

66 matches

219 matches

1964 - 1979

Colin Todd

60 matches

148 matches

1966 - 1982

Gary Breen

5 matches

105 matches

1996 - 2006

Mike Hellawell

185 matches

44 matches

1958 - 1966

Thomas Myhre

3 matches

42 matches

2000 - 2005

Tony Towers

69 matches

27 matches

1976 - 1979

Total : 13 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/10/1958. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

The other matches

February 19, 2006

Tottenham

2 2

Wigan

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February 25, 2006

Line-ups available

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February 26, 2006

Line-ups available

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March 29, 2006

Man United

1 0

West Ham

Line-ups available

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Chelsea	69	27	22	3	2	54	16	+38
2	Manchester United	54	26	16	6	4	52	27	+25
3	Liverpool	51	26	15	6	5	32	17	+15
4	Tottenham	46	27	12	10	5	37	24	+13
+25	Blackburn	43	27	13	4	10	34	31	+3
-16	Arsenal	41	27	12	5	10	39	22	+17
-17	West Ham	41	26	12	5	9	39	34	+5
8	Wigan	40	27	12	4	11	32	34	-2
9	Bolton Wanderers	39	24	10	9	5	30	23	+7
10	Manchester City	37	26	11	4	11	36	30	+6
+211	Newcastle United	36	27	10	6	11	26	29	-3
-112	Everton	36	27	11	3	13	19	34	-15
-113	Charlton	35	27	10	5	12	32	37	-5
14	Fulham	32	26	9	5	12	36	37	-1
15	Aston Villa	31	27	7	10	10	32	35	-3
16	Middlesbrough	28	25	7	7	11	33	44	-11
17	West Bromwich Albion	26	26	7	5	14	24	38	-14
18	Birmingham City	23	26	6	5	15	22	37	-15
19	Portsmouth	18	27	4	6	17	18	47	-29
20	Sunderland	10	27	2	4	21	18	49	-31

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Birmingham City 1-0 Sunderland - February 25, 2006 / Premier League 2005/2006

Birmingham City

1 - 0

Sunderland

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Bruce vs Sunderland

Bruce vs McCarthy

Manager

McCarthy vs Birmingham City

McCarthy vs Bruce

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Sunderland

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Players with most games played vs Sunderland

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

The other matches

Post-match general ranking