Jack Robinson was sent off in Birmingham City’s 3-2 defeat to Hull City at St Andrew’s
Referee Ruebyn Ricardo shows Jack Robinson a red card during Birmingham City’s defeat to Hull City
Chris Davies blamed Jack Robinson’s ‘lack of discipline’ for Birmingham City’s failure to get anything out of their game against Hull City.
Hull became the first visiting team to win at St Andrew’s during Davies’ tenure in a fiery encounter on Saturday afternoon.
Robinson’s day started badly when he put through his own net in the 11th minute and the Tigers added further goals from Regan Slater and Joe Gelhardt to seal their 3-2 victory.
Blues trailed 2-1 and were in the ascendancy in the 59th minute when a goal-kick was awarded instead of a corner after Marc Leonard’s shot deflected behind and Robinson voiced his displeasure to referee Ruebyn Ricardo.
The 32-year-old defender was initially shown a yellow card before Ricardo upgraded it to a straight red. Due to this being his second dismissal of the season, Robinson will be banned for Blues’ next four games against Preston, Bristol City, Portsmouth and Millwall.
Davies said: “I’m very disappointed to lose at home in the league for the first time. We were fairly strong in our attacking game in the first half, I thought we looked more dynamic and I wanted us to be a bit more fluid in our attack and have a bit more threat on their goal.
“There was a lot of that there and again, the two occasions they really got near our goal they scored. We were 2-1 down against the run of play really with very sloppy moments from us in a defensive sense, but if I looked at the half objectively we looked much the better team in terms of our threat.
“Despite being very frustrated about being 2-1 down, naturally it was a case of if we continue to play like that and tighten up on moments when they get near our box, then we’re going to go on and score the couple of goals we need to win this match.
“I was fairly confident in the second half but to lose a player through that lack of discipline is pretty hard to take because it’s ultimately cost us the opportunity to push on.
“We went to 10v11 and I thought the players did well to generate the chances that they did. They couldn’t have done much more. We pushed right to the very end.
“Ultimately, I think that lack of discipline in a key moment has cost us.
“He’s apologised to his teammates for the incident and it’s not something I want from my players, our team, and it’s something that shouldn’t happen. In the end we’ve suffered the consequences of it.”
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