Premiership result:
Birmingham 0-1 Man Utd F/T
van Nistelrooy 56
Birmingham: Vaesen, Kenna, Cunningham, Upson, Clapham, Damien Johnson, Savage, Clemence, John, Dugarry, Morrison.
Subs: Bennett, Devlin, Lazaridis, Kirovski, Swierczewski.
Man Utd: Carroll, Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Brown, Silvestre, Beckham, Keane, Veron, Giggs, Scholes, van Nistelrooy.
Subs: Phil Neville, Butt, Ricardo, Solskjaer, Forlan.
Referee: S Dunn (Avon)