Blackburn Rovers manager Michael O’Neill told BBC Radio Lancashire:<\/p>\n
“I’m exhausted a little bit to be honest. It was one of those games, especially with seven additional minutes, where we put everything into the game.<\/p>\n
“We had said to the players, we had to show that we wanted it more than the opposition, given the league position of the two teams. <\/p>\n
We had to frustrate them at times, which we did well. We also had to carry a threat as well, and we did that well. <\/p>\n
“I thought we had the better chances in the game, our goalkeeper made a couple of big saves when we needed him to, as did theirs. <\/p>\n
“But obviously its a real moment of quality from Todd to win the game, and its a massive three points for us.”<\/p>\n
Birmingham City manager Chris Davies told BBC WM:<\/p>\n
“A very disappointing result for us obviously. We can’t say we did enough to win it. You can see the confidence isn’t there. <\/p>\n
“Everything that I want from our play – the intensity, the tempo – we don’t have enough of that attacking players really firing right now, where they have been earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
“What I will say is I don’t think its for want of trying. The players are running and working, and giving everything they can which ois fundamental, but we’re lacking that fundamental confidence.<\/p>\n
“After being in such good form after Christmas, we’ve really hit a period where we’re suffering right now, and its up to me to find the answers for it.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers manager Michael O’Neill told BBC Radio Lancashire: “I’m exhausted a little bit to be honest. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-380418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}