Birmingham 4 Blackburn 1
Posted on May 19, 2008
Filed Under Premiership 07/08
Birmingham are relegated to the championship after they tried to perform the great escape but wins for Reading & Fulham meant that what ever they had done in this football match it wouldn’t have mattered but it was a fine win all the same.But for Blackburn that intertoto cup place up for grabs slipped away but they must be kicking themselves as Aston Villa could only muster a draw.But i have to ask Do you think the Birmingham board deserved to get all that abuse? or do the fans nowadays forget who took them there in the first place?what do you think?
The game kick off with high tension & the Birmingham players know there fate was in there hands & they had to do better then Fulham & Reading but it didn’t start well as James McFadden was ruled out with a injury so had to be replace with Zarate.It was him who had the first chance of this boring first half as he played a neat one-two with Kapo only to see his shot drift wide.Then it was Kapo himself who had a chance but he glanced his header tamely wide from a Larsson cross.
The fans were getting nervous & when the news came through that Reading had taken the lead against Derby it filtered through to the players & they started to look very down.But all was not lost as they were handed a gift & a unexpected route to safety when Blackburn’s goalkeeper Friedel who usually is very reliable let a long range shot from Murphy just slip past his reach & into the net to score.This gave Birmingham some hope & were waiting to see if Derby could equalise which would give them a tremendous chance.
But balckburn came out for the second half with other idears as they knew the score at West Ham an a wat into europe could be there’s,Everyone was wondering what Maik Taylor was doing as he was on a walkabout & Brett Emerton nearly scored but they had to thank Stephen Kelly who managed to kick the ball off the line.But for some reason Birmingham instead of pushing on started to make mistakes.
It was another error at the back that brought Blackburn’s equaliser a way wood pass from Damien Johnson put Jason Roberts in on goal but they though it was diverted when Taylor made two terrific saves but Roberts picked the ball up again & found a unmarked Santa Cruz who then passed to Pedersen who smashed it into the net from close range & relegation looked on for poor Birmingham especially as Reading were thrashing Derby.
There wasn’t much they could do now apart from praying for a miracle but it seemed to lift the pressure off the players & they started to play some nice football.Jerome who came on to replace Forssell must be a contender for miss of the season as the had the ball handed to him on a platter & from 5 yards out managed to completely miss & what a miss it was!!!.But all was not lost for him as he made amends a few minutes later to redeem himself.
Larson got to the byline & sent in a chipped sort of cross & Jerome sent a volley into the goal to put Birmingham ahead & that chance seemed a lot harder then the one he missed.But then he added a second as he collected the football ran straight at the heart of the defence & coolly slotted the ball past Freidel & into the net but there was Moore to come.Blackburn looked down & out & have given up on the football match but it wasn’t the end.
It was Birmingham who left the best play & goal of the match when Mehdi Nafti got to the byline & sent over a delightful placed cross & it was meet by Muamba who put it into the net to score Birmingham’s 4th. But at the end of the match it didn’t matter as the other results had gone against them & relegated them from the premier league.
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