Birmingham 0-0 QPR: Stalemate at St Andrew’s as each side discover goalkeepers in effective type and wrestle for innovative in goalless draw

 Goalkeepers John Ruddy and Asmir Begovic had been the celebs as Birmingham and QPR battled to a 0-0 Championship draw at St Andrew’s.

Begovic, the previous Chelsea, Bournemouth and Stoke goalkeeper, and ex-Wolves keeper Ruddy, each 36, produced a string of saves because the hosts missed the possibility to climb into the highest six in a single day.

QPR created the primary likelihood when Ilias Chair crossed from the left and Sinclair Armstrong looped a header over the bar.

Solely a determined, acrobatic goal-line clearance from QPR midfielder Sam Area prevented Blues taking a Twenty first-minute lead.

Lee Buchanan’s fierce cross flicked off centre-back Steve Prepare dinner and looped over Begovic, however Area hooked the ball away, replays displaying it was half over the road.

Asmir Begovic made a string of saves to maintain out Birmingham and safe some extent for QPR 

Each Birmingham and QPR did not discover a breakthrough within the goalless draw at St Andrew’s 

For all Birmingham’s attacking intent, QPR pressured the primary save of the sport when Paul Smyth reduce in on his left foot and his shot from simply contained in the field was pushed away by Ruddy.

Blues responded quickly after when right-back Cody Drameh’s cross-shot was shovelled away on the close to put up by Begovic.

The house aspect continued to push for the opening purpose and had three efforts blocked within the field, Jay Stansfield attempting his luck with a header after which a shot both aspect of an effort from Miyoshi.

They then went near taking the lead inside two minutes of the restart.

This time Krystian Bielik produced a snapshot that was stored out by a shocking one-handed save by Begovic at full stretch.

Rangers went simply as near breaking the impasse from the following transfer.

Sam Area acrobatically clears the ball of the road to forestall Steve Prepare dinner from an personal purpose 

Chair gave himself room to cross on the run after a one-two break up the defence and he pulled the ball again to Area, whose side-footed effort was palmed away by Ruddy and hit Armstrong earlier than bouncing simply huge.

Scott Hogan then missed a golden likelihood. The Birmingham striker had solely Begovic to beat after Miyoshi put him by however sidefooted too near the keeper.

Stansfield pressured one other save from Begovic when he reduce inside and fired goalward from simply contained in the field.

However Ruddy produced arguably the save of the match when he tipped away Lyndon Dykes’ downward header from Albert Adomah’s cross as each side needed to accept some extent.