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Birmingham 1 Manchester City 0

Heskey showed the power in the air that persuaded Blues manager Steve Bruce to splash out £6.25 million (€9.27 million) to Liverpool in the summer. The result leaves Kevin Keegan’s side still looking for their opening win of the campaign and he will not have been impressed with their overall performance.

Birmingham did not show the same fluency as against Chelsea at the weekend but they were worthy victors.