Lee Carsley's Brentford side are holding Birmingham City to a goalless draw at half time in their Championship clash at Griffin Park this evening.

David Cotterill cut inside from the right and curled a left-footed effort narrowly wide inside the opening 10 minutes as the hosts started brightly.

However, Bees striker Marco Djuricin then went close twice in quick succession with well-hit strikes that troubled Tomasz Kuszczak but went narrowly wide.

Djuricin then somehow failed to turn home Ryan Woods's back-post cross, instead firing tamely into the arms of the grateful Kuszczak.

Cotterrill saw his header from Stephen Gleeson's cross palmed away by David Button on the half-hour mark, before Button made another stop from Michael Morrison to keep his side level at the break.