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Three successive clean sheets and 50 appearances for Birmingham City make it a week to remember for Albion keeper.

Bruce Talbot

2026-10-19T13:00+01:00

James Beadle kept three successive clean sheets for Birmingham City last week. 📷Birmingham City FC

It’s been a good week for goalkeeper James Beadle, who kept three clean sheets to help propel Birmingham City into the Championship’s top four.

Beadle, who is in his second season on loan at St Andrew’s, enjoyed shutouts in the 1-0 win over West Brom, last Tuesday’s 4-0 success against Preston and the 3-0 victory on Saturday at home to QPR , when he made his 50th appearance for the club.

Those wins have lifted Chris Davies’s side to within two points of the automatic promotion places.

Two points and a place better off than Birmingham are Middlesbrough, for whom Amario Cozier-Duberry also had a productive week, with an assist in Boro’s 3-2 win at Stoke City and again on Saturday when they rescued a point from 2-0 down at home to Cardiff City.

Another player with an assist to his credit was Brajan Gruda, although it didn’t come as much consolation for RB Leipzig, who were 6-0 down when they got a consolation goal in stoppage time in Saturday’s Bundesliga game against Bayern Munich. Leipzig did beat PSV in the Champions League last week, though, with Gruda getting the only goal.

In League One Kamari Doyle was on target for Leicester City, who claimed a welcome 2-1 win over Doncaster Rovers while Mark O’Mahony returned after injury for Burton Albion as a second-half substitute in their 2-2 draw against Peterborough United.

Charlie Tasker played for 64 minutes of Rochdale’s 3-2 defeat at Crewe in League Two while in Spain’s Ligue 2 Matias Orozco helped CD Castellon to a 3-0 win over Las Palmas.

Unused subs in the last week have been: Freddie Simmonds (AFC Wimbledon), Facundo Buonanotte (Elche), Harry Howell (Leicester City) and Josh Robertson (Fleetwood Town).