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Blues Good for Their Wolves Win

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Birmingham City earned themselves bragging rights in the Midlands derby yesterday with a 2-1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Gary Rowett’s men more than deserved their win after taking control of the game during the second half. Not many would have expected the game to go the way it did and that has to go down as an upset.

Wolves took the lead after some soft defending from Birmingham and some tenacious play from the visitors’ front man, Dicko. Afobe was on hand to break the deadlock on 21 minutes.

The vistors’ did look the brighter team early on, but it seemed that by scoring it spurred on Blues to come out and play with more urgency.

It wasn’t long before Blues were back in the hunt though after equalising from a corner. Rob Kiernan eventually scrambling the ball home on 25 minutes.

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It was a run from Demarai Gray that sunk Wolves play-off hopes. The young Blues winger, who hasn’t been particularly bright in recent weeks, who made the counter attacking run from a Wolves corner.

Golbourne probably should have cleared it when he got ahead of Gray, but turned inside and allowed the teenager to steal it and slot it home for an important win for Rowett’s men.

Standout performances from the whole team fueled a fantastic display that was largely down to Rowett’s tactics perfectly nullifying Wolves attacking threat.

Clayton Donaldson worked incredibly hard for the team and everything put to him was held up and distributed to a teammate. Richard Stearman never really got to grips with the frontman.

It was a brilliant debut for new boy Fabbrini who earned a standing ovation for his display in the attacking midfield role. Shinnie was great at Bournemouth and he needed to justify why he’d been played ahead of the Scot, well that wasn’t even up for debate on that performance.

In what was a very impressive display from Birmingham, they certainly had a good go against a very good Wolves side, all credit to every player on the pitch and to the manager.

Based on what we saw yesterday, we can set our sights a little higher than mid-table security next seaon.



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