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<\/p>\nJames Beadle has been Birmingham City’s No. 1 for most of this season despite calls for Ryan Allsop to be recalled to the side<\/p>\n
James Beadle of Birmingham City<\/p>\n
Chris Davies has thrown his full backing behind James Beadle after the goalkeeper put in an erratic performance<\/a> in Birmingham City<\/a>\u2019s 3-1 loss to Middlesbrough on Monday evening.<\/a><\/p>\n The England Under-21 looked uncomfortable throughout the first half, in which he collided with Jonathan Panzo and also suffered a swelling over an eye.<\/p>\n Blues\u2019 inability to play through Middlesbrough\u2019s press, starting with Beadle<\/a>, meant most of their performance was built on sand and inevitably resulted in defeat.<\/p>\n Not for the first time this season Beadle was given stick by some Blues fans who would rather see Ryan Allsop play against Charlton Athletic this weekend.<\/p>\n However, Davies preferred to deflect blame from the Brighton loanee. \u201cIt was a night that will serve James well because he had to deal with real adversity for a spell in that game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cJames is a young goalkeeper with huge promise and he\u2019s come here to impact this season and develop. He will have done that, whatever happens at the end of the season. He\u2019s an exceptional goalkeeper.<\/p>\n \u201cYou could see the way the other players were supporting him and the way the team was playing wasn\u2019t helping him. We were giving him the ball too much, not making good enough angles, and everything else like that.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can make too much of these things. There was so much that we could have done better. James has got my complete support. I always speak to them and support them. Absolutely. No doubt about that.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is improving. Sometimes you forget he\u2019s 21 and that is really young for a goalkeeper but he\u2019s built up a lot of experience, he\u2019s at a Premier League club, there\u2019s high hopes for James.<\/p>\n “He\u2019s seen in the international set-up as someone who can keep going on that pathway. That tells you what people think of him.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think he\u2019s improved. He\u2019s had to battle for his place this season and I was clear with that when he came in because Ryan Allsop had done so well for me. James had to fight for his position but he did it and I think he\u2019s had a good season, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n Who should start in goal? Have your say<\/a>Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Beadle has been Birmingham City’s No. 1 for most of this season despite calls for Ryan Allsop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11538,37088,218,164208,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-461100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-birmingham-city-fc","tag-chris-davies-football-coach","tag-football","tag-james-beadle","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}