Birmingham City 0-2 Fulham: Stansfield helps Cottagers past former side

Birmingham city 0o to two Fulham Stansfield helps cottagers pass former side Jay Stansfield was on target against former Club Birmingham city as Fulham swept aside their league one host with a comprehensive two to zero victory in the efl cup second round Marco Silva's side fell short against Liverpool in the semifinals of this competition last season but made another good start to the new cup campaign on Tuesday after easing to victory at St Andrews Ral Jimenez opened the scoring with a 10th minute penalty awarded for hand ball against Alex Cochran before Birmingham were undone by a familiar face just four minutes later Striker Stanfield spent last season on loan with the blues and owing to that spell refused to celebrate after profiting from wae Anderson's long pass before finishing with a clinical Edge Birmingham could find no second half response as Fulham progressed into Wednesday's third round draw with the cottagers next task a trip to ipswitch toown in the Premier League on Saturday Daya debrief cup control for cottagers Fulham have progressed from 12 of their last 15 efl cup ties against sides from a lower division including Tuesday's win and both such matches last term against East angland Duo Norwich City and ipswitch this outcome was somewhat expected considering Fulham have won their last six games in all competitions against Birmingham by an aggregate score of 16 to three Birmingham meanwhile have lost at this stage in their last four attempts 2017 to 18 2021 to 22 2023 to 24 in this season