{"id":16698,"date":"2025-04-13T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16698\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:14:11","slug":"chris-davies-makes-six-changes-as-birmingham-city-go-for-vertu-trophy-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16698\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Davies makes six changes as Birmingham City go for Vertu Trophy glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City face Peterborough United in the Vertu Trophy final at Wembley<\/p>\n

14:00, 13 Apr 2025Updated 14:02, 13 Apr 2025<\/p>\n

\"ChrisChris Davies, manager of Birmingham City<\/p>\n

Chris Davies has made six changes to the Birmingham City<\/a> team he hopes completes a league and cup double at Wembley this afternoon.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Blues boss has effectively reversed the changes he made as promotion was secured at Peterborough United on Tuesday night, with Jay Stansfield coming back in to lead the line.<\/p>\n

He does so at the expense of Alfie May, who drops to the bench, in what has become a recognisable XI as Blues\u2019 season has come to the boil in recent weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Davies, Ethan Laird, Paik Seung-ho, Keshi Anderson and Kieran Dowell are the other returnees, with Marc Leonard, Taylor Gardner-Hickman and Luke Harris joining May among the substitutes.<\/p>\n

Davies knew he would have to disappoint some members of his squad and Alfons Sampsted and club captain Krystian Bielik<\/a> have not made the match-day group.<\/p>\n

That means Ryan Allsop plays behind Laird, Christoph Klarer, Davies and Alex Cochrane. Paik is reunited with Tomoki Iwata in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n

Dowell teams up with Anderson and Willum Willumsson behind Stansfield.<\/p>\n

BLUES (4-2-3-1): Allsop; Laird, Klarer, Davies, Cochrane; Paik, Iwata; Dowell, Willumsson, Anderson; Stansfield.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Subs: Peacock-Farrell, May, Jutkiewicz, Leonard, Gardner-Hickman, Harris, Hanley<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you make of the XI? Have your say here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City face Peterborough United in the Vertu Trophy final at Wembley 14:00, 13 Apr 2025Updated 14:02, 13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-16698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chris-davies-football-coach","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114331075727684626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}