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Birmingham City striker Jay Stansfield<\/p>\nJay Stansfield limped off the field after Birmingham City’s 1-0 defeat to Port Vale in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night<\/p>\n
16:00, 27 Aug 2025Updated 16:39, 27 Aug 2025<\/p>\n
Birmingham City striker Jay Stansfield<\/p>\n
Talisman Jay Stansfield is a major doubt for Birmingham City\u2019s<\/a> trip to Leicester City after taking a whack on the ankle in Tuesday\u2019s defeat to Port Vale.<\/p>\n The striker came off worse in a challenge with Vale left-back Liam Gordon in stoppage time and could be seen hobbling around before the final whistle.<\/p>\n Stansfield<\/a> was on crutches at Blues\u2019 training ground on Wednesday afternoon and is currently wearing a protective boot. It must be said that Tomoki Iwata left Huddersfield Town on crutches last season before starting against Rotherham a few days later.<\/p>\n Blues manager Chris Davies<\/a> said: \u201cJay had a little bit of a knock towards the end of the game and was limping. He\u2019s being assessed by the medical department today so I haven\u2019t got the full extent of what exactly that is. We can\u2019t add any more detail to it but he did take a knock.\u201d<\/p>\n Stansfield, who has scored three goals already this season, was introduced as a half-time substitute to try and drag Blues back into the Carabao Cup tie against Vale.<\/p>\n \u201cI always planned to give the boys some game time because I wanted them to get some minutes under their belt,\u201d added Davies.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew certain players like Marvin (Ducksch) and Kanya (Fujimoto) weren\u2019t going to be able to last anyway, so I had planned to give them some time in that second half and I thought Jay and Paik (Seung-ho) could come in and really improve our level.<\/p>\n \u201cThey did to a certain extent but what was really frustrating was that it was pretty much the last kick of the game that Jay got a knock. These things happen, this is football. It\u2019s really unfortunate but we don\u2019t know how severe it is. It\u2019s something you can\u2019t do too much about.\u201d<\/p>\n Who should take Stansfield’s place if the striker isn’t fit to start at Leicester? 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":"Jay Stansfield limped off the field after Birmingham City’s 1-0 defeat to Port Vale in the Carabao Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,393,4884,1206,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378094","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-jay-stansfield","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101751311553555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378094","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=378094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}