Welcome to LIVE coverage of the Second City derby as Birmingham City take on Aston Villa at St Andrew's!

And there's the final whistle! A cracking encounter ends one apiece!

A smoke bomb has been let off at one end of the ground, but play continues as Foster hits a free-kick deep downfield... ZIGIC!!! He beats Friedel to it but glances his header wide!

Cool goalkeeping from Friedel, who receives a Dunne backpass and plays the ball straight back to the Irishman with Bowyer bearing down on him.

Three minutes of stoppage time to be played.

Is there time for some late drama, as there was in the Carling Cup match between these teams?

Villa win a corner, but Dunne is adjudged to have impeded his marker.

Late, late challenge by James Collins and he is duly booked.

DELFOUNESO HITS THE BAR!! Nicks the ball beyond Ridgewell and smashes a shot that Foster gets a faint touch on, and the ball clips the woodwork on its way over!

Birmingham: Lee Bowyer comes on for Matt Derbyshire, with Alex McLeish looking to toughen up his midfield.

DUNNE!! COLLINS!! The Irishman's header is cleared off the line by Ridgewell before Collins hits the rebound wide! So close Villa...

Bentley... curls a disappointing effort well over the bar.

The streaker has been apprehended and David Bentley is ready to take the free-kick.

Albrighton commits a foul right at the edge of the Villa box as a streaker comes on to the pitch...

Two good blocks by Dunne and Collins to deny Derbyshire and Murphy! Villa putting their bodies on the line!

Birmingham: Nikola Zigic comes on for Alex Hleb.

Good save Foster!! Agbonlahor finds Delfouneso in the box who lays it off for Downing, and his shot is well saved by the goalkeeper's legs.

Collins's shot looked as though it may have been going wide before going in off the former Villa man Ridgewell. That might go down as an own-goal...

GOAL!!! VILLA ON TERMS! James Collins! Birmingham fail to deal with Albrighton's cross and thev ball drops for Collins whose volley ricochets in off Liam Ridgewell!

So Gerard Houllier is putting his faith in youth. Mind you, he has done that for most of his reign and Villa are in the relegation zone...

Double change for Aston Villa: Barry Bannan and Nathan Delfouneso on for Nigel Reo-Coker and John Carew.