{"id":792347,"date":"2026-02-27T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/792347\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:40:13","slug":"birmingham-citys-xi-from-the-2011-league-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/792347\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City&#8217;s XI from the 2011 League Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetfootball.com\/tag\/birmingham-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham City<\/a> beat Arsenal in the 2011 League Cup final in one of the biggest shocks in modern English football history \u2013 but how well do you recall the winning XI?<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners were expected to sweep Birmingham aside and win their first trophy since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>But Alex McLeish\u2019s side proved to be dogged opponents, especially after knocking out city rivals Aston Villa in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>With the scores tied at 1-1, Obafemi Martins scored a late winner following a defensive mix-up between Wojciech Szczesny and Laurent Koscielny.<\/p>\n<p>Martins was only a substitute at Wembley, meaning you have the entire Birmingham starting XI to name as your challenge.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for another challenge after this, why not have a go at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetfootball.com\/quizzes\/can-you-name-every-club-to-have-won-the-league-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">naming every club that\u2019s won the League Cup<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy our quizzes, head to our new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetfootball.com\/games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Football Games<\/a>\u00a0home where you can search an archive of over 1,000 quizzes and play them all in beautiful full-screen mode.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, and don\u2019t forget to tweet us your scores at\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planetfutebol\" target=\"_blank\">@planetfutebol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT QUIZ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetfootball.com\/quizzes\/league-cup-sponsor-quiz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Can you name every sponsor of the League Cup?<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City beat Arsenal in the 2011 League Cup final in one of the biggest shocks in modern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,748,393,4884,121847,9314,16,15],"class_list":["post-792347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-league-cup","tag-quizzes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116142173330409158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}