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Leicester Beaten In Birmingham

The 10 men of Leicester City were defeated 2-1 by Birmingham City at St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday afternoon.

2026-02-07T16:55+00:00

by Sam Stevens

Published

07 Feb, 2026

from St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park

Leicester Beaten In Birmingham

The 10 men of Leicester City were defeated 2-1 by Birmingham City at St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-07T16:55+00:00

Leicester Beaten In Birmingham

The 10 men of Leicester City were defeated 2-1 by Birmingham City at St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-07T16:55+00:00

Leicester Beaten In Birmingham

The 10 men of Leicester City were defeated 2-1 by Birmingham City at St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-07T16:55+00:00

Leicester Beaten In Birmingham

The 10 men of Leicester City were defeated 2-1 by Birmingham City at St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park on Saturday afternoon.

Sam Stevens

2026-02-07T16:55+00:00

Two days after we were deducted six points, goals in each half from Ibrahim Osman and Jay Stansfield – either side of Abdul Fatawu’s strike – were enough for the Blues to take all three points in the pouring rain.

Andy King’s visitors had to play nearly an hour with 10 men too as, with the scores 1-1, Bobby De Cordova-Reid was shown a straight red card for a late challenge on Osman just before half-time.

Jamaal Lascelles and Joe Aribo made their full debuts for the Foxes, while Divine Mukasa and Dujuan Richards came off the bench, but the day ultimately ended in a third consecutive league defeat. This leaves us 21st in the Sky Bet Championship – with Southampton visiting LE2 on Tuesday (7:45pm GMT kick-off).

Behind early

With just three minutes gone, Ricardo Pereira lost the ball to Osman. The Blues winger, on loan from Brighton, was still around 35 yards out when he won the ball, but he burst forwards and beat the returning Asmir Begovic.

There were Leicester penalty appeals soon after, although referee John Busby was unmoved when goalkeeper James Beadle clattered into Patson Daka. Our first real opening came with 12 minutes on the clock. Tomoko Iwata’s attempted clearance was wayward and nearly became an inadvertent assist for De Cordova-Reid.

Beadle, mind you, raced off his line to smother the Jamaican’s effort. The Foxes, however, had recovered well to going behind and were starting to get a bit of a foothold in the game, with King – in temporary charge of the team – providing encouragement from the sidelines.

Fatawu strikes

Midway through the first half, Luke Thomas’ throw-in came to Stephy Mavididi on the left channel. He had more time than perhaps he was expecting and, although his cross was nodded away, it eventually landed perfectly for Fatawu to plant his foot through it.

Beadle, in the Blues goal, probably didn’t see the ball until he was picking it out of his net – such was the ferocity of the Ghanaian’s strike. That was a reward for the way Leicester had fought back into the contest, albeit with more disappointment to come.

Before that, Birmingham regained some control, firstly with Phil Neumann’s header initially beating Begovic, although the offside flag was up. Begovic, back in the Foxes XI, then made a superlative stop to deny Carlos Vicente.

Birmingham win it

Just seconds after debutant Lascelles had bulleted a threatening header narrowly wide, City were reduced to 10 men. De Cordova-Reid went in from behind on Osman – and the referee was in no doubt when he pulled out his red card just 32 minutes into the contest.

For the second game in succession, the Foxes were down to 10, and the task in Birmingham had just become a lot harder. We were able to keep the scores level until the break, but Blues – managed by former Leicester coach Chris Davies – put the foot down in the second half.

Jhon Solis’ long-range, side-footed hit needed tipping over by Begovic just before the hour. Birmingham were being patient, mind you, sitting on the edge of our box, looking for an opening. They found it, too, on 67 minutes as Marvin Ducksch threaded the ball through to Stansfield to slot it past Begovic and seal the points.

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