Blackpool v Birmingham City: Live updates from Bloomfield Road

Blackpool return to Bloomfield Road today for their Easter Monday encounter against Birmingham City.
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Blackpool v Birmingham City - live updates

Key Events

  • FT: Blackpool 6-1 Birmingham City
  • Seasiders looking for first win in SIX
  • Jordan Gabriel likely to miss out with another hamstring injury

Today marks Blackpool’s highest home game of the season - 13,993. That’s even more than the Forest game.

A change is made, but it's actually Jerry Yates for Shayne Lavery. Hubby looks set to continue.

Great chance for the striker to get a long-awaited goal.

68 - Another injury?

James Husband looks like he will be forced off with a knock. Reece James has been sent to warm up.

63 - GOAL BIRMINGHAM (4-1)

A goal back for the visitors as Ivan Sunjic slots home into an empty net after Onel Hernandez had been set free.

61 - Temporary stoppage

Play now halted as stewards deal with a blue smoke bomb thrown onto the pitch from the away end.

Troy Deeney lobs another one off.

56 - GOAL BLACKPOOL!!! (4-0)

Birmingham completely fail to clear their lines from a corner and Beesley is there to turn home after Callum Connolly was denied.

Anger now starting to boil over in the away end.

Chris Maxwell beats away an ambitious effort from Lyle Taylor. Birmingham corner.

The Birmingham keeper makes a complete hash of a fairly simple bit of goalkeeping as Shayne Lavery nips the ball away from him.

Blackpool end up winning a corner.

Jake Beesley goes down after taking a bang to his head.

He looks okay, probably just needs it strapping up. Gary Madine is warming up just in case.

CJ Hamilton lets fly with an ambitious effort from the edge of the box in the opening seconds, but a Birmingham man gets in the way.