{"id":464817,"date":"2026-02-07T17:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:29:08","slug":"birmingham-city-2-1-leicester-city-blues-heap-more-misery-on-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464817\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City 2-1 Leicester City: Blues heap more misery on Foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts made a flying start and Osman gave them the lead inside three minutes when he robbed Ricardo Pereira and squeezed the ball home past recalled Leicester goalkeeper Asmir Begovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Leicester refused to lie down and Birmingham goalkeeper James Beadle made a smart save to deny De Cordova-Reid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham did not heed the warning and Foxes top scorer Fatawu levelled on 21 minutes with his seventh of the season. Paik Seung-Ho&#8217;s headed clearance fell to Fatawu who controlled the ball before lashing home on the half-volley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">De Cordova-Reid was sent off on 32 minutes for a dangerous studs-up challenge on Osman which caught the Ghanaian on the ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham piled on the pressure, amassing 22 shots, including six on target, as Osman and Marvin Ducksch both missed, while Begovic denied Paik and Jhon Solis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Foxes were finally beaten in the 67th minute when Ducksch fed Stansfield with a slide-rule pass and he produced an excellent, angled finish to end his 13-game barren run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hosts made a flying start and Osman gave them the lead inside three minutes when he robbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-464817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}