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Birmingham City 0-1 Chelsea - August 21, 2004 / Premier League 2004/2005

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Premier League 2004/2005 - Journée 2

St Andrew's Stadium - Birmingham - England

August 21, 2004

28 559

Birmingham City

0 - 1

Chelsea

68'

Joe Cole

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46' - Substitution Aleksey Smertinis substituted by Tiago photo Mateja Kezman

46' - Substitution Eidur Gudjohnsenis substituted by Mateja Kezman

63' - Substitution Geremiis substituted by Joe Cole

68' - Goal Joe Cole

76' - Substitution Jesper Grönkjaeris substituted by Stern John76

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Birmingham City

0 - 1

Chelsea

Birmingham City Chelsea

Team line-ups

Birmingham City

1 Maik Taylor

Maik Taylor

Northern Ireland

B.date04/09/1971

Age32 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

5 Upson

Matthew Upson

England

B.date18/04/1979

Age25 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

15 M. Taylor

Martin Taylor

England

B.date09/11/1979

Age24 years

H1m94

positionRight central defender

29 Melchiot

Mario Melchiot

Netherlands

B.date04/11/1976

Age27 years

H1m88

positionRight full-back

22 Johnson

Damien Johnson

Northern Ireland

B.date18/11/1978

Age25 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

21 Gray

Julian Gray

England

B.date21/09/1979

Age24 years

H1m85

positionLeft Midfielder

6 Izzet

Muzzy Izzet

Turkey

B.date31/10/1974

Age29 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

8 Savage

Robbie Savage

Wales

B.date18/10/1974

Age29 years

H1m83

positionCentre Midfield

7 Grönkjaer76

Jesper Grönkjaer

Denmark

B.date12/08/1977

Age27 years

H1m87

positionOffensive Midfielder

11 Lazaridis

Stan Lazaridis

Australia

B.date16/08/1972

Age32 years

H1m76

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

16 Heskey

Emile Heskey

England

B.date11/01/1978

Age26 years

H1m88

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Maik Taylor		32	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Matthew Upson		25	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Martin Taylor		24	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	D	Mario Melchiot		27	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Damien Johnson		25	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Julian Gray		24	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Muzzy Izzet		29	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Robbie Savage		29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Jesper Grönkjaer	76	27	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Stan Lazaridis		32	122	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Emile Heskey		26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Chelsea

1 Cech

Petr Cech

Czech Republic

B.date20/05/1982

Age22 years

H1m96

positionGoalkeeper

26 Terry

John Terry

England

B.date07/12/1980

Age23 years

H1m87

positionLeft central defender

6 Carvalho

Ricardo Carvalho

Portugal

B.date18/05/1978

Age26 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

14 Geremi63

Geremi

Cameroon

B.date20/12/1978

Age25 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

18 Bridge

Wayne Bridge

England

B.date05/08/1980

Age24 years

H1m79

positionLeft full-back

20 Paulo Ferreira

Paulo Ferreira

Portugal

B.date18/01/1979

Age25 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

4 Makélélé

Claude Makélélé

France

B.date18/02/1973

Age31 years

H1m74

positionDefensive Midfielder

22 Gudjohnsen46

Eidur Gudjohnsen

Iceland

B.date15/09/1978

Age25 years

H1m85

positionLeft central midfielder

5 Smertin46

Aleksey Smertin

Russia

B.date01/05/1975

Age29 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

8 Lampard

Frank Lampard

England

B.date20/06/1978

Age26 years

H1m84

positionCentre Midfield

15 Drogba

Didier Drogba

Ivory Coast

B.date11/03/1978

Age26 years

H1m89

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Petr Cech		22	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	D	John Terry		23	171	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Ricardo Carvalho		26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Geremi	63	25	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Wayne Bridge		24	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Paulo Ferreira		25	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Claude Makélélé		31	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Eidur Gudjohnsen	46	25	170	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Aleksey Smertin	46	29	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Frank Lampard		26	161	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Didier Drogba		26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Stern John	76	27	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
30	M	Tiago	46	23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Joe Cole	6863	22	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Mateja Kezman	46	25	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Julian Gray

Mikael Forssell

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ricardo Carvalho

William Gallas

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Steve Bruce

113

Success rate in this team:

35 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

39 %

Bruce vs Chelsea

1 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on August 21, 2004

Bruce vs Mourinho

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on August 21, 2004

Manager

Age

Match num

José Mourinho

Success rate in this team:

100 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

68 %

Mourinho vs Birmingham City

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 21, 2004

Mourinho vs Bruce

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on August 21, 2004

Referee

Barry Knight

1 victory	0 draw	5 losses	Birmingham City6 matches	General total	Chelsea8 matches	8 victories	0 draw	0 loss
1 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Birmingham City2 matches	Season total	Chelsea2 matches	2 victories	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on October 22, 2005					Latest figure on September 24, 2005

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Key figures

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Steve Bruce has done less than 37% of losses in Premier League.

Chelsea keeps its 26 matches with at least one goal scored away from home running (since 18/10/2003). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 22/03/1986 (21 matches)

Chelsea keeps its 5 matches with only one goal conceded at most in Premier League running (since 01/05/2004).

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBirmingham City 2-0 Bolton Wanderers06/03/2004

LBirmingham City 0-1 Leicester13/03/2004

VBirmingham City 4-1 Leeds United27/03/2004

LBirmingham City 1-2 Manchester United10/04/2004

DBirmingham City 2-2 Wolverhampton25/04/2004

LBirmingham City 0-3 Liverpool08/05/2004

Overall

DCharlton 1-1 Birmingham City17/04/2004

DBirmingham City 2-2 Wolverhampton25/04/2004

DArsenal 0-0 Birmingham City01/05/2004

LBirmingham City 0-3 Liverpool08/05/2004

DBlackburn 1-1 Birmingham City15/05/2004

DPortsmouth 1-1 Birmingham City14/08/2004

Current form

Away

VTottenham 0-1 Chelsea03/04/2004

VArsenal 1-2 Chelsea06/04/2004

LAston Villa 3-2 Chelsea12/04/2004

LMonaco 3-1 Chelsea20/04/2004

LNewcastle United 2-1 Chelsea25/04/2004

DManchester United 1-1 Chelsea08/05/2004

Overall

LNewcastle United 2-1 Chelsea25/04/2004

VChelsea 4-0 Southampton01/05/2004

DChelsea 2-2 Monaco05/05/2004

DManchester United 1-1 Chelsea08/05/2004

VChelsea 1-0 Leeds United15/05/2004

VChelsea 1-0 Manchester United15/08/2004

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	0	2
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	2
Winless streak	3	9
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	0	2
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	5	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	2
Drawing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	1	5
Winless streak	4	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	25	7
Conceding streak	5	0
Invincibility streak	0	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
0	Victories (Competition total)	1
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	1
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
0	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
1	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

4	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

	Robbie Savage	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Eidur Gudjohnsen
	Robbie Savage	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Eidur Gudjohnsen

Historical head to head

Home

40 matches

14 v

11 d

15 l

66 gf

66 ga

Away

41 matches

9 v

11 d

21 l

47 gf

70 ga

Total

81 matches

23 v

22 d

36 l

113 gf

136 ga

Historical head to head

Home

41 matches

21 v

11 d

9 l

70 gf

47 ga

Away

40 matches

15 v

11 d

14 l

66 gf

66 ga

Total

81 matches

36 v

22 d

23 l

136 gf

113 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	March 11, 1980
Home	5 - 1	March 11, 1980

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	November 21, 1964
Away	6 - 1	November 21, 1964

Latest head to head

January 18, 2004 - Premier League 2003/2004

Chelsea

0 - 0

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

October 14, 2003 - Premier League 2003/2004

Birmingham City

0 - 0

Chelsea

February 08, 2003 - Premier League 2002/2003

Birmingham City

1 - 3

Chelsea

November 09, 2002 - Premier League 2002/2003

Chelsea

3 - 0

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

April 04, 1989 - Division 2 1988/1989

Chelsea

3 - 1

Birmingham City logo Birmingham City

Best historical scorers against Chelsea

Bob Hatton	3 goals	1973 - 1975
Keith Bertschin	2 goals	1977 - 1979
Denis Thwaites	2 goals	1964 - 1964
Bertie Auld	2 goals	1963 - 1964
Trevor Francis	2 goals	1977 - 1977
Jimmy Bloomfield	2 goals	1961 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Birmingham City

Jimmy Greaves	8 goals	1957 - 1961
Robert Tambling	7 goals	1959 - 1965
Tommy Langley	4 goals	1975 - 1977
George Graham	4 goals	1964 - 1964
Eidur Gudjohnsen	3 goals	2002 - 2003
Barry Bridges	3 goals	1961 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chelsea

Malcolm Page	10 matches	1968 - 1979
Malcolm Beard	10 matches	1961 - 1970
Ray Martin	10 matches	1964 - 1974
Garry Pendrey	9 matches	1972 - 1979
Mike Hellawell	7 matches	1960 - 1964
William Hennessey	7 matches	1961 - 1965

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/08/1957. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Birmingham City

Ron Harris	18 matches	1963 - 1979
Peter Bonetti	18 matches	1961 - 1979
John Hollins	13 matches	1964 - 1975
Peter Brabrook	10 matches	1957 - 1962
Eddie McCreadie	10 matches	1963 - 1973
Robert Tambling	10 matches	1959 - 1968