Match Centre: Birmingham City vs Preston North End
Player of the match Ibrahim Osman 8.0
GolVolt rating 3.3GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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14 → 10
Birmingham City climb 4 places in the table. Preston North End stay in place 16.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Plenty of chances.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 80′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 4.3 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Nobody stood out. Heroes: 2.0 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Not much was at stake yet. Stakes: 0.3 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances. Quality of play: 8.8 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 3.3more watchable than 33% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
3 goals2 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 10' Goal: Jay Stansfieldassist: Osman1:0
- 16' Goal: Ibrahim OsmanBirmingham City2:0
- 25' Goal: Andrew HughesPreston North End2:1
- 37' SubstitutionGray for Osman
- 45+2' Andrija Vukcevicyellow card
- Half-time · 2:1
- 65' SubstitutionMoran for Potts
- 65' SubstitutionOsayi-Samuel for Laird
- 72' Andrew Moranyellow card
- 72' SubstitutionSolís for Stansfield
- 73' 2 substitutionsJebbison for OsmajicSmall for Valentín
- 78' SubstitutionBrady for Vukcevic
- 84' SubstitutionSmith for Dobbin
- Full-time · 2:1
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Birmingham City
Preston North End
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Birmingham City
- 21 Ryan Allsop GK —
- 6 Jack Robinson DEF —
- 20 Alex Cochrane DEF —
- 26 Bright Osayi-Samuel DEF on
- 7 Tommy Doyle MID —
- 14 Jhon Solís MID on
- 16 Patrick Roberts MID —
- 10 Demarai Gray ATT on
- 33 Marvin Ducksch ATT —
Preston North End
- 12 Jack Walton GK —
- 13 David Cornell GK —
- 14 Jordan Storey DEF —
- 26 Thierry Small DEF on
- 11 Robbie Brady MID on
- 23 Andrew Moran MID on
- 9 Daniel Jebbison ATT on
- 22 Milos Lukovic ATT —
- 24 Michael Smith ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- St. Andrew's Stadium, Birmingham
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Birmingham City Ibrahim Osman
- 2. place · Preston North End Andrew Hughes
- 3. place · Birmingham City Jay Stansfield
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