Blues 'got it together' - Davies on win at Wrexham

Birmingham City boss Chris Davies says his Blues team 'got ourselves together' as they bounced back from Tuesday's embarrassing home Carabao Cup hammering by Brentford to win at Wrexham.

Despite all the personal criticism that came his way in midweek after Blues' 6-1 defeat, the club's worst in nine years, the under-pressure Davies was confident that his players would turn it around.

And, sure enough, after outwitting winless Wrexham to extend their unbeaten away run to five games, Davies is upbeat and looking forward again.

"I've had some low moments," the Blues boss told BBC Radio WM. "But I actually had some much lower moments when we were in League One. I've just learnt how to deal with them.

"I trust the players. My job was to pick them up - and I had no doubt that they would be ready. We got ourselves together and we showed what we are about.

"The most important thing was that we looked like a team. Anyone could see that. But it was a big win. And a deserved win too."

Davies pinpointed the quality of his side's set-pieces, as they once again triumphed on Welsh soil for the second time in three weeks.

Their Carabao Cup first-round tie at Swansea was a 1-0 win thanks to an August Priske strike from a set-piece - and this time it was defender Phil Neumann with a double to prove the matchwinner, bundling home the first at the far post before a superbly deft near-post flick to steer in Priske's perfect lobbed right-flank delivery.

"Tight games like that can go either way," added Davies. "And in games this tight you need your set-pieces. We won away at Swansea with a setpiece - and now we've won away here with a set-piece too.

"Phil was fantastic - a great header and real quality from August with the cross.

"The only problem was that Phil didn't get a hat-trick," he added. "But he was outstanding against Kieffer Moore. And big Kieffer is as hard as they come to play against on the physical side."

Blues now face the challenge of trying to get it right at St Andrew's, as they take on successive home games against Southampton, on Tuesday, then Wolves next Saturday.

Birmingham City boss Chris Davies was talking to BBC Radio WM's Richard Wilford