{"id":841345,"date":"2026-03-21T20:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/841345\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:19:22","slug":"birmingham-city-boss-chris-davies-hits-out-as-derby-county-do-the-business-in-big-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/841345\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City boss Chris Davies hits out as Derby County do the business in ‘big, big game’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derby County defeated Birmingham City 1-0 to keep up in the play-off race and also eliminate one of their rivals<\/p>\n

Brian Dick<\/strong> Reach Football Correspondent<\/p>\n

18:26, 21 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Davies, manager of Birmingham City (Image: Lindsey Parnaby\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Chris Davies was highly critical of Birmingham City\u2019s performance as their play-off hopes were finally rendered fanciful by Derby County.<\/a><\/p>\n

A goal from Rhian Brewster just before half time was enough to give the Rams a 1-0 win, <\/a>maintain their own top six hopes and distinguish those of John Eustace\u2019s former club.<\/p>\n

While the Rams boss was left to fire shots about \u2018no fear football\u2019<\/a>, his counterpart \u2013 and successor in the Birmingham City hotseat \u2013 Davies didn\u2019t hold back in his condemnation of his side\u2019s display.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery disappointed with the result and performance, we didn\u2019t deserve anything from the match,\u201d Davies said. \u201cIt\u2019s very frustrating and the story of our season in many ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that game was at St Andrews it would look completely different, we would have been on the front foot the entire game but away from home we\u2019ve had many performances like this.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe strength and personality to really hurt the opposition hasn\u2019t been there and ultimately it\u2019s my responsibility, that\u2019s my job to get that out of the players and put a team on the pitch that can do that. Today was a big, big game for our season and it\u2019s even more painful that we lose the game in such a fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought first half we were trying to be a bit more solid and make sure we didn\u2019t give anything sloppy away but we conceded a poorly timed goal and a very soft goal right on half-time but it was with the ball I was equally disappointed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t the bravery, the forward thinking and we just didn\u2019t have the strength or personality to look dangerous with any possession we had.<\/p>\n

“Second half I thought we improved in terms of possession, we had a lot more of the ball but without making that last touch or pass to be dangerous enough again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the Rams finish in the top six? Let us know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby County defeated Birmingham City 1-0 to keep up in the play-off race and also eliminate one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,17303,393,4884,50904,16,15],"class_list":["post-841345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-fc","tag-britain","tag-derby-county","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-john-eustace","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116269020924657245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841345","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=841345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}