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Birmingham City captain Christoph Klarer was sent off for a high foot on Derby County’s Ebou Adams<\/p>\nBirmingham City’s 1-1 draw with Derby County on Boxing Day came at a cost<\/p>\n
16:39, 26 Dec 2025Updated 16:41, 26 Dec 2025<\/p>\n
Birmingham City captain Christoph Klarer was sent off for a high foot on Derby County’s Ebou Adams<\/p>\n
Chris Davies is fearing the worst on Demarai Gray\u2019s injury after the influential winger limped out of Birmingham City\u2019s<\/a> draw with Derby early on.<\/p>\n Gray<\/a> had to be replaced by Lewis Koumas in the 16th minute after pulling up and Davies isn\u2019t convinced he will be available for Southampton.<\/p>\n The games are coming thick and fast for Blues with Southampton followed by Watford and Coventry before the Championship pauses for the FA Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cDemarai was feeling something early in the game, I was aware of it and we were trying to see if he could run it off,\u201d said Davies.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be able to give you days or weeks on that one, but if you have to come off in a game you can anticipate a few weeks. I think it\u2019s a knock on his calf.\u201d<\/p>\n Blues will be without captain Christoph Klarer against Southampton, Watford and Coventry after he was sent off in stoppage time for a high challenge on Derby\u2019s Ebou Adams.<\/p>\n Davies reacted: \u201cI think it was an uncharacteristic mistake from him. What can I say? Someone who is a colossal leader for us will be a miss, no doubt. That\u2019s him obviously suspended.<\/p>\n \u201cChristoph has been fantastic, he doesn\u2019t make many mistakes, but that was obviously one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n Patching up the defence is becoming more problematic for Davies by the game. It is hoped that left-back Alex Cochrane will return at some stage in the next 10 days to give Blues a boost.<\/p>\n Davies added: \u201cAlex has made that position his own in our system as that hybrid left-back, he\u2019s played it so well. We\u2019re hoping Alex is going to be available for one of these games.<\/p>\n “Southampton could come too soon. That\u2019s very possible. We\u2019re talking about days between games.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want him back as quickly as possible, he\u2019s such an integral part of our system.\u201d<\/p>\n 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’s 1-1 draw with Derby County on Boxing Day came at a cost 16:39, 26 Dec 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[18875,855,1205,748,8372,10461,55206,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-656617","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-chris-davies-football-coach","13":"tag-christoph-klarer","14":"tag-demarai-gray","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115788036463861403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656617","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=656617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}