{"id":334834,"date":"2025-08-11T04:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:23:23","slug":"birmingham-city-1-1-ipswich-town-chris-davies-on-town-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334834\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City 1-1 Ipswich Town: Chris Davies on Town penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The newly-promoted home side dominated most of the game against Town, but had to settle for a point after George Hirst coolly slotted home a penalty in added time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That was awarded after a cross into the box deflected off the hand of Lyndon Dykes as he jumped to try to clear the danger.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25377698.five-observations-following-1-1-draw-birmingham-city\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five observations following 1-1 draw at Birmingham City<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And\u00a0Davies said: \u201cI thought it was really, really harsh. He\u2019s gone up and obviously his arms are raised \u2013 you have to raise your arms to jump \u2013 and it\u2019s scraped his fingers on the way down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s really harsh. I would be surprised if anyone doesn\u2019t have that opinion. That\u2019s happened now, we just have to take it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s made a huge impact on the game because we were one-nil up with a couple of minutes to go. That\u2019s football, it can happen.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"George Hirst kept his cool to level from the spot late on\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>George Hirst kept his cool to level from the spot late on (Image: PA Sport) Davies added: \u201cWe were the better team, we dominated the match, and we deserved to win the game but for misfortune with a decision.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Birmingham boss also lamented a decision earlier in the game which saw\u00a0Kyogo Furuhashi adjudged to have fouled towering Town defender Jacob Greaves before he lobbed the ball into the net just seven minutes in.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25377502.ill-always-back-myself---hirst-dramatic-penalty-towns-draw-birmingham\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;I&#8217;ll always back myself&#8217; &#8211; Hirst on dramatic penalty in Town&#8217;s draw at Birmingham<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Again, I thought it was harsh,&#8221; Davies admitted.\u00a0&#8220;You only have to look at Kyogo to see the size of him compared to the centre-back. For me, that one looked harsh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe good news is that is what Kyogo is capable of. He was trying to make the right runs and was disciplined in his performance. I\u2019m really happy with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly-promoted home side dominated most of the game against Town, but had to settle for a point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115008228776171972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334834","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=334834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}