United win by single van Nistelrooy goal

Premiership result:

Birmingham 0-1 Man Utd F/T

van Nistelrooy 56

Birmingham: Vaesen, Kenna, Cunningham, Upson, Clapham, Damien Johnson, Savage, Clemence, John, Dugarry, Morrison.

Subs: Bennett, Devlin, Lazaridis, Kirovski, Swierczewski.

Man Utd: Carroll, Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Brown, Silvestre, Beckham, Keane, Veron, Giggs, Scholes, van Nistelrooy.

Subs: Phil Neville, Butt, Ricardo, Solskjaer, Forlan.

Referee: S Dunn (Avon)