Chris Davies was speaking after Birmingham City sealed a 1-1 draw away to Swansea City on Saturday evening
20:41, 17 Jan 2026Updated 20:44, 17 Jan 2026
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Chris Davies has challenged his Birmingham City players to build on their point at Swansea and take three points at Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday.
Patrick Roberts scored 18 minutes from time at the Swansea.com Stadium to cancel out Zan Vipotnik’s opener and earn Blues their first point away from home since November.
“It’s something we’ve wanted to address,” Davies said of Blues’ away point. “If we are going to improve away from home then it’s going to be those types of performances in terms of the character, the grit, the determination — all those intangibles that you need in a game. They were all there today. I think we can view that as a good point and move on.
“It was a tight start but then Swansea had their tails up a little bit, got hold of the ball and had more possession than I would have liked. You can’t always stop that because they are a good footballing team.
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“To go down gave us a mountain to climb but it wasn’t necessarily the way they broke through, because that was a problem in itself, it was indicative of what we were doing, we just gave the ball away so easily 30 seconds before and it gave them the chance to launch another attack.
“We still had our moments in the first half, I felt like the game was well and truly alive and I said that to the players at half-time: ‘We’re right in this game but we need to be more aggressive. We need to press them more. We need to be 10 or 15 yards higher up the field with our defensive line and we need to get on the ball and play quicker.’
“I thought we saw a much better performance in the second half.”
Blues now travel to basement side Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday looking for their first away victory in three months.
Davies added: “It’s a performance to build on today. As I said to the players, we have the opportunity to go a step further against Sheffield Wednesday.
“We should anticipate it being a very difficult match but we have a chance away from home to go and get that victory. We’ve got to go for it.”
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