“Resilience is the number one thing in football,” Chris Davies said after Birmingham lost 6-1 to Brentford at St Andrew's in the Carabao Cup. The manager said players and staff held a team meeting after the defeat, and Wrexham are next up on Friday.
Birmingham's quick reset
“You lick your wounds. We sat down and had a meeting about it,” Davies said on the BBC. He added that some of the detail from that conversation would stay private, but the point was clear enough: Birmingham had to move on quickly.
Davies also said, “The good news is we have the chance to bounce back against Wrexham and we have put that game to bed now and move on.” He has been in charge since 2024, and he guided Blues to a record-breaking points tally and the League One title.
Why one heavy loss is not the full story
Davies was adamant that the Brentford result would not undo what Birmingham have built. “It isn't going to derail anything. We have built something strong here over the past few years and it will take more than one heavy defeat to really dent that,” he said.
That sits alongside Birmingham's recent run, which has seen them win four of their last five competitive games. Brentford finished ninth in the Premier League last season and collected 53 points, so the gap in quality was obvious on the night, but Davies is treating it as one bad result rather than a wider collapse.
The pressure point now is Friday's meeting with Wrexham, and Birmingham will need a cleaner response than the one they produced against Brentford.
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