Blues had endured a seven-match run without a win but two goals from Marvin Ducksch and another from Lewis Koumas saw them get over the line against Frank Lampard\u2019s 10-man Sky Blues.<\/p>\n
Davies said: \u201cIt\u2019s our biggest win of the season. We\u2019re playing the league leaders who are running away with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not just marginal, either. They\u2019ve been fantastic this season. They were in the play-offs last season. We were in League One.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely the best win of the season, given the run we have been on. It was a really good day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davies added on Birmingham\u2019s official website: \u201cFull credit to the players, it\u2019s all about them today.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one gave us a chance today, everybody thought Coventry were going to turn up and beat us, and I said that to the players before the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see they had that bit between their teeth, they really believed, and we showed all the qualities that are needed to win football matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, team spirit, togetherness, quality on the ball, clinical finishing, hard work and resolute defending.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you do all that, you\u2019ve got a great chance in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davies also revealed he took the staff at the training ground for a walk and a coffee in the build-up following a 3-0 defeat by Watford at Vicarage Road on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Birmingham led three times but were pegged back twice by Lampard\u2019s side, who have now won just twice in their last eight outings.<\/p>\n
Kai Wagner crossed for Ducksch to finish on the full to get the hosts off to a flier but Coventry hit back inside two minutes when Josh Eccles strode forward and let fly from 25 yards.<\/p>\n
Birmingham drew blood again in the 17th minute with a move that saw Liverpool loanee Koumas score his first goal for the club.<\/p>\n
Jack Rudoni shot through the legs of Jack Robinson, perhaps unsighting goalkeeper James Beadle, for Coventry\u2019s next leveller.<\/p>\n
But Birmingham were not a spent force going forward and former Germany international Ducksch defeated Carl Rushworth at his near post for the winner.<\/p>\n
Coventry\u2019s frustration spilled over in the fifth minute of stoppage time when Bobby Thomas was dismissed after aiming a slap at Phil Neumann which was spotted by referee James Linington.<\/p>\n
Lampard was upset that Linington failed to award a late penalty when Ephron Mason-Clark was pulled over by Tomoki Iwata while contesting a cross.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe\u2019re disappointed to lose the game. I thought it was there for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe conceded three goals which makes it very difficult to win and I normally credit the opposition if they beat us but it was there for us to go and win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a game where you felt a hot atmosphere and big pressure \u2013 it didn\u2019t feel like that. There was the opportunity for us to take control \u2013 and we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blues had endured a seven-match run without a win but two goals from Marvin Ducksch and another from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674302","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674302","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=674302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}