Match Centre: Preston North End vs Birmingham City
Player of the match Phil Neumann 8.1
GolVolt rating 4.4GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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17 → 12
Birmingham City climb 5 places in the table. Preston North End: 8 → 10.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Settled by 88′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 88′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 4.6 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Neumann scored the winner.Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 5.8 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% It mattered for the table but settled nothing. Stakes: 4.0 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% An average number of chances. Quality of play: 5.4 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 4.4more watchable than 44% 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
1 goal7 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 10' Michael Smithyellow card
- 12' Bright Osayi-Samuelyellow card
- 33' Goal: Phil Neumannassist: Cochrane0:1
- Half-time · 0:1
- 54' 2 substitutionsGray for KoumasLeonard for Osayi-Samuel
- 58' Tomoki Iwatayellow card
- 63' 2 substitutionsDevine for VukcevicSmall for McCann
- 63' Marc Leonardyellow card
- 70' 2 substitutionsCashin for AndersonDykes for Doyle
- 72' SubstitutionOsmajic for Jebbison
- 83' SubstitutionDobbin for Hughes
- 85' SubstitutionSampsted for Stansfield
- 90+2' Keshi Andersonyellow card
- 90+5' Seung-ho Paikyellow card
- 90+5' Thierry Smallyellow card
- Full-time · 0:1
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Preston North End
Birmingham City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Preston North End
- 12 Jack Walton GK —
- 6 Liam Lindsay DEF —
- 26 Thierry Small DEF on
- 10 Mads Frøkjaer-Jensen MID —
- 20 Theo Carroll MID —
- 21 Alfie Devine MID on
- 22 Stefán Teitur Thórdarson MID —
- 17 Lewis Dobbin ATT on
- 28 Milutin Osmajic ATT on
Birmingham City
- 21 Ryan Allsop GK —
- 23 Alfons Sampsted DEF on
- 41 Eiran Cashin DEF on
- 12 Marc Leonard MID on
- 27 Kanya Fujimoto MID —
- 42 Daniel Isichei MID —
- 9 Kyogo Furuhashi ATT —
- 10 Demarai Gray ATT on
- 17 Lyndon Dykes ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Deepdale, Preston
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Birmingham City Phil Neumann
- 2. place · Preston North End Ben Whiteman
- 3. place · Birmingham City Alex Cochrane
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