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Jay Stansfield of Birmingham City<\/p>\nThe latest Birmingham City team news from BirminghamLive as Blues lose 1-0 at Burton Albion<\/p>\n
17:59, 19 Jul 2025Updated 18:02, 19 Jul 2025<\/p>\n
Jay Stansfield of Birmingham City<\/p>\n
Chris Davies revealed Jay Stansfield\u2019s omission from both of Birmingham City\u2019s friendlies today was down to a \u2018niggle\u2019.<\/p>\n
The Birmingham City<\/a> striker played 45 minutes of the pre-season curtain-raiser against Sevilla, but was not involved at Burton or Crewe.<\/a><\/p>\n Instead he and the likes of Ethan Laird and Lyndon Dykes remained behind to build their fitness, although new signing Kanya Fujimoto has made progress.<\/p>\n \u201cThey’re just back at the training ground, they’ve been trained and some have had injuries at different times but they’re all they’re OK,\u201d Davies said.<\/p>\n \u201cJay’s on a different schedule. He’s had a lot of football with England and came back and he’s got a little bit of a little bit of a niggle, so we’ll see how he is.<\/p>\n \u201cKanya is picking up his training actually, I’m hoping he rejoins team training in the next week or so.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom then he needs a good couple of weeks to really get up to speed in terms of any game time. He’s getting there, it’s been quite a good week of progress for Kanya.\u201d<\/p>\n Overall Davies wasn\u2019t too unhappy with the 1-0 loss at the Pirelli Stadium, which came about after a poor goal scored by Fabio Tavares in the fifth minute.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe No. 1 thing you’re looking for is, can you build your fitness from these type of games as the first 60 minutes we’ve been exposed to this season?<\/p>\n \u201cI think the boys looked leggy, they’ve had a strong week in training. So, I think that’ll do them the world of good having that 60 minutes under their belt for most of them.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought first half we were very fluid, we conceded a ridiculous goal which we won’t concede any worse than that, so that’s something to learn from.<\/p>\n \u201cBut then it was obviously all us and we were pretty fluid, we just lacked a bit of killer instinct in the in the final bit. That will come.<\/p>\n \u201cQuite encouraging, obviously disappointing to lose the game but there were things there that we can definitely work with.<\/p>\n \u201cThe young lads came on and I wanted to see them look like a Birmingham<\/a> City player, run and fight like one and they did that. So all in all, I think we can take a lot from the day.<\/p>\n \u201cI never like losing even a friendly, but it’s a pre-season game that we need to get for fitness and then move on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n What did you make of Blues’ performance today? Have your say here<\/a>Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest Birmingham City team news from BirminghamLive as Blues lose 1-0 at Burton Albion 17:59, 19 Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,393,4884,1206,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275259","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-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-jay-stansfield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114881066698384588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275259","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=275259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}