Ambitious attempt from the right wing from Andre Vidigal, his dipping effort just goes over the goal.

Into three minutes of injury time and the Blues have a foul throw given against them - you can guess Wayne Rooney's face and reaction to that...

Jordan James drops deeper to get the ball, plays a one-two with Siriki Dembele and then wins a corner.

Juninho Bacuna again with the set-piece, again Stoke clear with little hassle.

A Birmingham free-kick from halfway inside the Stoke half on the right is not cleared at the first opportunity, but the Blues are not awake to the loose ball and another opportunity is spurned.

Angela Smith
BBC Radio Stoke

Whether Stoke can sustain this pressure, and this pace, will be interesting.

The Blues attack down the right, but Jay Stansfield is ultimately frustrated that another attack comes to nothing.

He has not seen so much of the ball the last 10 minutes.

It could have and really should have been 1-2, the ball played right across the six-yard box, Jack Bonham is rooted to the spot as no-one connects, the slightest deflection would have been enough for Birmingham City.

Superb ball across from Emanuel Aiwu.

Jordan Thompson gets away without a booking, taking one for the team rather to stop Koji Miyoshi breaking away at the Stoke back four. The free-kick again leads to nothing.

Birmingham's corner from the right through Juninho Bacuna is easily cleared, Bacuna thinks he then earns a second one, but it is a goal kick.

A Stoke City booking too, the Portugese player Andre Vidigal gets his side's first caution of the evening.

Kerys Harrop
Ex-Birmingham City women defender on BBC Radio WM

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Good finish by Gooch there, right through the legs of John Ruddy.

Look at the body language, it's stupid mistakes that have cost Birmingham, so far.

Juninho Bacuna gets the home side's second booking, he is late with a sliding challenge.

Chris: It'll be 9 points from a possible 39 points if Rooney's Birmingham lose today. Safe to say the gamble severely backfired?

Ryan Mmaee plays Andre Vidigal in on goal. City's No.7 blazes over from within the box down the right-hand side. Wasteful from Stoke

Marc: How many Championship managerial records are worse than Rooney's? Truly diabolical.It's fair to say the former England captain hasn't had the best of starts to his time at St Andrew's. It's only nine points from a possible 36 so far before today's game.

Lynden Gooch has been Stoke's brightest attacker and their skipper wins a foul but Stoke do not do much with the free-kick, happy to keep possession at this juncture.

Two offsides in quick succession, wasteful from Stoke both times, gifting possession back to the home side.

Steven Schumacher might need to learn the rules about footballs and white lines...appealing for a throw in when the ball was nowhere near completely over the whole of the whitewash.

A misleading rule that is different in most ball, invasion team sports in fairness.

Or maybe he's just trying to wind up his former team-mate, if you did not know; he and Wayne Rooney were team-mates in their early years at Everton and, together, helped the Toffees reach the 2002 FA Youth Cup Final.

Stoke play it across to the right but in a positive position give it away and allow Juninho Bacuna to dribble it away from trouble and trigger a Birmingham attack.

End-to-end stuff this without many clear cut chances.

Angela Smith
BBC Radio Stoke

Stoke look much better as a team now.

They won't have had many sessions with Steven Schumacher, but they look like they know what they are doing, there is a game plan.