Birmingham | 2 - 1 | Burnley |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Beausejour (2') |  | Marvyn Bartley (49') |
| Chris Burke (90') | | |
| Date | : | Tue, Nov 22, 2011 | Time | : | 20:45 CET |
| Play on | : | English League Championship |
Chris Burke hit a dramatic injury time winner as Birmingham won 2-1 Burnley struggling to gain promotion rivals npower Championship.
City, which began the night with three games ahead of most teams around them, had brought the second minute strike Jean Beausejour and have won more comfortably if Marlon King guilty of an alarming lack.
City seemed to be forced to pay for their waste again as Marvin Bartley's strike early in the second half at Burnley only put Burke to appear with a winner in injury time.
With less than two minutes gone, Birmingham went ahead. A big play was skillful striker Nikola Zigic film ball through Burke in a lovely one-two, and when Burnley goalkeeper Lee Grant touch his shot deflected to the bar end Beausejour Chile reacted quickly to slam home from left around the area.
Zigic should have done better than 13 minutes to head wide when Beausejour corner is well positioned as the home team kept up the pressure.
Keith Treacy head moments later there was far from goal at the other end as Burnley won a little foray forward.
Zigic again went close with a header when he met the 25-minute David Murphy free kick, but headed the ball just wide.
It would have been 2-0 in 35 minutes there was no king was one of the failures of the season so far.
Zigic showed alertness and tenacity to steal David Edgar of the ball and charging forward and when the striker unselfishly squared the ball to his strike partner, King somehow sidefooted range from about eight yards with keeper Grant stranded.
Birmingham had to pay for not taking their chances as Burnley level less than four minutes into the second half. The game neglected by the home team took the Clarets win a corner when the ball was not cleared Ross Wallace well, Bartley midfielder steadied himself before rifling through a shot from 20 yards that was deflected beyond the reach of Boaz Myhill.
Murphy Cross subsidy is required to crush the ball away from the city of frantically looking to assert itself, for the first time volley Keith Fahey not far from goal minutes later.
Fahey was again closer to home support grew impatient, while Murphy was booked for a late challenge on Kieran Trippier.
Zigic sent a header looping cross little deeper Stephen Carr, but Burnley always threatened to land a sucker-punch.
The king saw a tame effort saved on each side of Burnley couple of speculative shots Rodriguez and Jay Treacy.
Zigic was then guilty of evident failure of its four minutes left in the transverse direction excellent substitute Nathan Redmond down and out instead of in the bottom corner.
Some local fans had started filing out of the stadium when Burke hit the winner a minute into added time. Redmond placed the ball perfectly into the path of Murphy and when their teasing ball under the left flat-footed defense, Burke crashed the ball to achieve a dramatic three points.
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