COVENTRY CITY U21's 0-1 BIRMINGHAM CITY U21's
City: Burge, Whitmore (Shipley 46), Lawton, Harries, Haynes, C.Thomas, Barton, Stevenson, Devon Kellly-Evans, Swanson, Miller. Subs : (Maycock 80), Richards, Sambou, Barnett.
Birmingham: Townsend, Cogley, Bell, Balmy, Fry, Kelly, Solomon-Otabor, Truslove, Mitford (McGee 52), Brown, Guthmy (Yafai 71), Subs Armstrong, Trueman,.
HT CCFC 0-1 BCFC
FT CCFC 0-1 BCFC
Referee; Matt Smith. Assts Manish Gupta and Anthony Giles.
Goals Liam Truslove 25
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Coventry City U21's went down to a 1-0 defeat against Birmingham City.
Six days after losing 2-1 at Wast Hills, Darren Murray's side faced Birmingham City yet again. Problems with Nuneaton Town's pitch meant that a change of venue was required to get the game on and at short notice, the game was switched to Ryton Training Ground.
Supporters were admitted and there was a few supporters, scouts, agents plus former players Claus Jorgensen, Ian Goodwin and Steve Ogrizovic, Neil MacFarlane and Steven Pressley present to see a City side which included Ryan Haynes, Conor Thomas, Adam Barton, Danny Swanson and Shaun Miller who had City's first chance in the ninth minute.
Ryan Haynes made a great tackle to concede a 12th minute corner. That was cleared and The Blues attacked again through Solomon-Otabor.
Haynes and Miller, who looked lively in the first half, put together a good move down the left in the 21st minute. But four minutes later, Birmingham took the lead with a header from the edge of the area from Liam Truslove which went into the bottom corner.
Miller went close with a twenty yarder as City passed the ball round well on a pitch
Reece Brown, not the one who played for City on loan, fired at Burge and Swanson had a tame effort before Miller had a shot deflected for a 38th minute corner.
Devon Kelly-Evans was unlucky with an effort and worked well for City along with Stevenson, Lawton, Haynes and Kelly-Evans as the half ended .
Jordan Shipley was sent on for the second half which saw Birmingham with an early goal disallowed and a Truslove shot.
Lawton was marshaling City's defence well but was unlucky to concede a 62nd minute free kick on the edge of the area. Brown took the free kick but Burge was down to his right to save.
The confident Burge saved from McGee with Brown firing wide from inside the area in the 67th minute.against a Coventry side who keeping the ball in their own half.
In the 72nd minute, a shove by Nat Kelly gave City a free kick that Haynes curled over.
City offered little up front in the second half and although they won a very late corner, they went down to another defeat which leaves them rock bottom of the table.