{"id":689774,"date":"2026-01-11T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:20:12","slug":"birmingham-boss-chris-davies-keen-to-build-momentum-with-cambridge-victory-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689774\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham boss Chris Davies keen to build momentum with Cambridge victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues were three goals ahead and looked to be comfortably progressing against their Sky Bet League Two opponents before Sullay Kaikai came off the bench and score twice to get the score back to 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Championship side who progressed though after their third away victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden you\u2019ve got a right old finish on your hands, but it doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is winning,\u201d Davies said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had plenty of games this season where we\u2019ve deserved so much more. Today we\u2019ve deserved to win, absolutely, and we did, and we\u2019re through to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was all about can we win after winning, and build that momentum. Today was about continuing that and that winning feeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got ourselves into a great position, then had a bit of an unnecessary stressful finish, but that\u2019s the FA Cup for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forward Kyogo Furuhashi ended a 23-game run without a goal by netting Birmingham\u2019s second, and Davies assessed his performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was really good tonight. The second goal was all about Kyogo. He makes it all himself, chases a lost cause and takes his goal well,\u201d Davies added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see the reaction from all the players, himself, the fans, the staff. Everyone will be really chuffed for him and it meant a lot to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neil Harris wanted the use this season\u2019s cup runs to spur Cambridge on to a successful end to their League Two campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I want to grow this football club then come on, let\u2019s win those games. Why can\u2019t we? Why can\u2019t we drive forward and cause upsets?\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I will say is that cup competitions this year have been really good for us. We\u2019ve had three great games in this. We go out in a fashion of real pride, appetite and aggression in the way we\u2019ve played at times. A pat on the back for the lads, but that\u2019s now done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re out now, now it\u2019s just 22 league games to go. They\u2019re huge games for us. We\u2019ve got ourselves into a brilliant position in the league by sheer determination and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep pushing, keep developing the group with and without the ball, add in the transfer window and we\u2019ve got 22 huge games in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues were three goals ahead and looked to be comfortably progressing against their Sky Bet League Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-689774","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\/115878797271211671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689774","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=689774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}