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Birmingham City 0-2 Everton | Premier League match report Everton's first win of the season lifted them off the bottom of the table and ruined Birmingham's unbeaten home record, which stretched back 12 months. David Moyes's men were much the better team and deserved the good fortune handed to them when Roger Johnson turned a right-wing cross from Leon Osman into his own net. Tim Cahill headed in the second, from Leighton Baines's cross, in added time.Birmingham were poor and were abused by their own fans at half-time and again at the end.Everton hadn't scored away from Goodison, Birmingham had failed to find the net in their previous two matches at home. It was unlikely to be a goalfest, and there was even less chance of one with Birmingham's leading scorer, Craig Gardner, starting a three-match suspension. His place in midfield went to Keith Fahey. Everton were also forced to make one change – Osman, who was fit again, taking over from Steven Pienaar, also in midfield.Everton had much the better of the first half, making good progress down the left through Osman and Baines. They would have been rewarded with the lead after 26 minutes but for a goal-line clearance by Liam Ridgewell after Ben Foster could only get an ineffective touch to a shot by Yakubu. The opportunity had been created by Johnson's slip, which let in the burly Nigerian.Osman, too, might have scored but, played in by Yakubu, he fired over on the half-turn. Birmingham's only goal attempts before the interval fell to Cameron Jerome, who made a poor fist of both, shooting wide from the edge of the penalty area and heading Stephen Carr's cross on to the roof of the net.The goal Everton's superior football deserved finally arrived, gift-wrapped, in the 54th minute, when Osman's centre from the left was taken virtually out of Foster's hands and diverted into the net at the near post by Johnson.Birmingham sent on Matt Derbyshire in place of the blunt instrument they call Jerome but, with Alexander Hleb anonymous, they were not good enough to reply. Instead it was Everton who doubled the margin in the third minute of added time, when Cahill headed home from four yards.Premier LeagueBirmingham CityEvertonJoe Lovejoyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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