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Alex Cochrane in action for Birmingham City against Crawley<\/p>\nBirmingham City were held to a 0-0 draw by Crawley Town on Good Friday<\/p>\n
18:59, 18 Apr 2025Updated 19:02, 18 Apr 2025<\/p>\n
Alex Cochrane in action for Birmingham City against Crawley<\/p>\n
Alex Cochrane reached a personal milestone in Birmingham City\u2019s<\/a> draw with Crawley by making his 50th appearance of the season \u2013 a target he set himself back in August.<\/p>\n The left-back has been a mainstay in Blues\u2019 XI this season and has had to plug away without competition for much of it due to Lee Buchanan\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n Cochrane may now get a breather after Lee Myung-jae finally made his debut as a substitute against Crawley.<\/a><\/p>\n Opening up on his personal target for the season, Cochrane said: \u201cIt was to get 50 games and to hit 50 for this club is a real privilege for myself. The most I had before was 46, so hitting 50 was always a target for me.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been enjoyable and definitely one to remember. Coming here it was just about trying to get into the team and play, and I\u2019ve been lucky enough to play as many games as I have, but there\u2019s still more to finish off the season.\u201d<\/p>\n Blues manager Chris Davies paid tribute to Cochrane in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n \u201cAlex has been one of our stars this season,\u201d said Davies. \u201cHe\u2019s probably been the best left-back in the league.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s such a reliable player, I think that\u2019s where you\u2019d put Alex. He\u2019s always strong defensively, a lovely left-foot, can pop up with an assist, and he\u2019s a great character.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he\u2019s the type that will grow and grow at this club and be one of those players that will rack up a lot of games and people will think very fondly of him.\u201d<\/p>\n How impressive has Cochrane been? 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":"Birmingham City were held to a 0-0 draw by Crawley Town on Good Friday 18:59, 18 Apr 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[18875,855,1205,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-32030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-alex-cochrane","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114362788352720440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030","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=32030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}