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Birmingham City manager Chris Davies celebrates at full time<\/p>\nChris Davies was speaking after his Birmingham City team defeated Coventry City 3-2<\/p>\n
17:08, 04 Jan 2026Updated 17:17, 04 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
Birmingham City manager Chris Davies celebrates at full time<\/p>\n
Chris Davies got caught up in the emotion of Birmingham City<\/a> beating Championship leaders Coventry City with his most jubilant lap of honour at St Andrew\u2019s @ Knighthead Park this season.<\/p>\n The festive fixtures haven\u2019t been kind to Blues and questions have been asked of Davies but they cut a run of seven games without a win with a 3-2 triumph over Coventry.<\/a><\/p>\n Marvin Ducksch answered his own critics with a brace and Lewis Koumas netted his first Blues goal to cancel out Josh Eccles and Ellis Simms\u2019 strikes.<\/p>\n The final whistle was greeted by raucous noise inside St Andrew\u2019s and Davies fist-pumped his way around the stadium after embracing each of his players.<\/p>\n He reflected: \u201cThe fans have been amazing with me since I came to the club and I feel that. Everyone needed that win today.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been so close in games and you sound silly for saying it sometimes, because people don\u2019t want to hear that. But if you have followed this club you will know that we’ve hit the post and the bar in the last three home games and that could easily have gone in, so there\u2019s another few points.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you don\u2019t get it, noise starts around it.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to make the fans proud of their team. Days like this do that because football is about memories and moments, it\u2019s not about a destination.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve just had the league leaders in our stadium and we\u2019ve beaten them. These are the games we have to savour.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were top of the Championship, we were in League One last season, people shouldn\u2019t lose sight of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Davies was more coy on the four notable absences from Blues\u2019 squad. Alex Cochrane is injured and made way for debutant Kai Wagner, but Davies wasn\u2019t exact when asked why Marc Leonard, Lyndon Dykes and Keshi Anderson weren\u2019t involved.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a mixture of injury, team selections and tactical selections as well,\u201d said the Blues boss.<\/p>\n Pressed whether midfielder Leonard and striker Dykes \u2013 who almost joined Hibernian in the summer \u2013 could be on the way out, Davies added: \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\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":"Chris Davies was speaking after his Birmingham City team defeated Coventry City 3-2 17:08, 04 Jan 2026Updated 17:17,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,8372,71307,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674825","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-coventry-city-fc","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115841001311996352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674825","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=674825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}