Birmingham City vs Liverpool

1. 94'

   Although substitute Owen got a goal back, Liverpool didn't have one shot afterwards. They never looked like equalising, had no urgency and got exactly what they deserved

2. 94'

   Goals from Clemence and Morrison put the Blues in control, and at that stage they were cruising

3. 94'

   Birmingham thoroughly deserved their victory and move six points clear of the relegation zone

4. 94'

   And there goes the final whistle

5. 93'

   Heskey crosses from the left, there's three red shirts in the box but Vaesen rises high to claim

6. 92'

   Liverpool pour forward for the leveller

7. 91'

   Savage plays the free-kick to Horsfield in the corner. He makes a mess of it and gifts possession back to Liverpool

8. 90'

   Three minutes to be added on

9. 90'

   Birmingham win a rare free-kick for a foul by Diao on Devlin

10. 90'

    Birmingham break, Savage picks out Lazaridis on the left but Dudek races out, belatedly, to clear

11. 90'

    Baros is muscled off the ball on the right wing. A real chance for Liverpool. Riise's free-kick is woeful and Savage heads clear

12. 89'

    A final change for Birmingham as the hard working Clinton Morrison, scorer of the vital second goal, is replaced by Paul Devlin

13. 88'

    Murphy plays a threaded ball throught he centre, straight to Vaesen

14. 87'

    Liverpool probing for the equaliser now, trying to find a way through

15. 86'

    Riise lauches a long throw into the box from the right, Heskey fails to get a touch, Owen's shot is blocked by Cunningham and Birmingham clear

16. 85'

    Bruno Cheyrou is replaced by Neil Mellor in an attacking change

17. 85'

    Hamann brings Johnson to the floor, precious seconds for the Blues

18. 84'

    Morrison gets to the byline and looks to cut the ball back into the box, but he takes his eye off the ball and it just runs over the line for a goal-kick

19. 83'

    Geoff Horsfield comes on for Christophe Dugarry

20. 82'

    Dugarry looks to be struggling with cramp, and gets some treatment off the pitch

21. 82'

    Birmingham hoist a long throw into the box, and Morrison just fails to get on the edge of Dugarry's flick

22. 81'

    Darren Carter enters the fray in place of the scorer of the first goal, Stephen Clemence

23. 80'

    ...Diao gets there ahead of Morrison to head the ball away

24. 79'

    Clapham tries to get past Diao on the left flank, but is pushed to the ground. Free-kick to Birmingham, played into the box by Savage...

25. 78'

    Owen did well to watch the flight of the ball and stab it past the helpless Vaesen. Question marks over the defending, but Liverpool are back in this at 2-1

More from this season series: LIV leads series 1-0-1

• LIV 2 vs BIR 2Final, Sep 11
• LIV 3 vs BIR 0Final, Jan 5

More EPL games on February 23

• West Brom6-8-241

  West Ham10-12-162
  Final