Birmingham City 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1 - Barry Bannan's penalty gives Garry Monk winning return to St Andrews

By The newsroom
Published 17th Oct 2020, 17:52 BST
Updated 17th Oct 2020, 17:56 BST
Sheffield Wednesday manager Garry Monk.Sheffield Wednesday manager Garry Monk.
Sheffield Wednesday manager Garry Monk.
Barry Bannan's 49th-minute penalty gave Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory over Birmingham to hand his manager Garry Monk a winning return to St Andrew's.

Bannan scored the only goal to earn Wednesday their first Sky Bet Championship win since the opening day of the season and end Birmingham's unbeaten league start under new head coach Aitor Karanka.

It also gave Monk his first victory at St Andrew's since his 16-month stint as Birmingham head coach ended in June 2019.

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Dominant Wednesday deserved their victory as they bid to claw back ground from a 12-point deduction which has left them rooted to the bottom of the table.

Blues desperately missed the presence of talismanic striker Lukas Jutkiewicz, who was absent for a Championship game for the first time in 31 months, after it was announced he was ill.

Last season's 15-goal top scorer had been an ever present for the previous 104 league games, since a 2-0 home defeat to Barnsley on February 24, 2018.

Before the game, no Wednesday player had scored in the Championship for 316 minutes, since the opening day when Jordan Rhodes struck in a 2-0 win at Cardiff City.