Fulham 2 Birmingham 1

A stoppage time winner from Bobby Zamora consigned Birmingham to defeat after taking the lead against Fulham at Craven Cottage.

It took Blues just three minutes to open the scoring through Chris Baird's own goal, before Damien Duff equalised just before the hour.

The visitors' slice of fortune was thanks in no small part to Lee Bowyer's right-wing cross, which Baird could only turn into net to give Alex McLeish's men an early boost.

But it didn't last as Fulham put the pressure on and made the breakthrough from Duff's 20-yard rocket which drilled in off a post on 59 minutes, after a neat one-two with former Albion star Zoltan Gera.

Blues nearly retook the lead late on but were thwarted by a combination of goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer and the crossbar, after the Cottagers No 1 tipped James McFadden's 25-yard effort onto the woodwork.

And the away side lived to regret it when in-form Zamora notched for the fourth game in a row, with a curling free-kick a minute into time added on to leave Birmingham beaten.