They are glad that they play a welcome in the jungle from Guns N ‘Roses in St Andrew’s, which is a suitable choice when the club has prepared for the Badlands of League One this season. However, the promotion was achieved in a quiet style. Birmingham City looks up again.
Under Chris Davies, Birmingham secured his return to the six games championship. They already have 95 points, the League One record of 103 all except inevitability. The best shooters with the best defensive record, no one could live with them.
The way of their dominance is well illustrated by the statistics of possession. Blues had more than 67 % of the ball this season, the best since they started such records for League One ten years ago. In fact, only Pep Guardiola’s Great Manchester City pain has ever improved in the first four levels during this period.
It is the redemption of species for club owners, the American company Knighthead Capital Management, including the Legend of NFL Tom Brady Investor Minority. Due to resources and ambitions, descending in the first season should not happen.
Rough lessons were learned. After the incorrect step of the ditch of John Eustace, while at a high level followed by a big judgment in the conversion of Wayne Rooney, before the serious illness forced Tony Mowbray to retreat. Gary Rowett could not keep them. It was a mess.
Supporters were frustrated, but acknowledged that the possibilities remained. They saw an improvement in infrastructure. Not only the great talk of the 60,000 stadium and the sports neighborhood that appears in what is the relatively molten part of the city, but about small things.
More than £ 15 million was spent on infrastructure projects during the summer, with total expenditures exceeding 35 million GBP from Knighthead investment in July 2023, after spending 1 million GBP to improve the playground. Injection of funds was very needed.
When they arrived, there were only two working showers in the home dressing room. These details were neglected. It is important that they are not only players who enjoy improved environment, but also supporters. The experience with the match has been transformed.
The newly introduced fan park can accommodate 1,200 supporters, and although it is free to enter, the research shows that the average fans of the match on the day of the match are now 700 percent, with the area in the capacity of each home game many hours before the start.
Rebranded as ST Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park, a visit is a different experience today. It is fully open to beginners and again accommodates almost 30,000. It is an atmosphere, live music, a fan park, which makes it a place where people want to be again.
He asked Davies in the summer and said, “It was the level of organization that excelled for me. They are really experienced operators and very ambitious, but they also have a real plan. It’s not just the pipeline.”
This season they sign Jay Stansfield map for Birmingham City Signature Jay Stansfield
The results on the playground reflected to improve the mood. It was not cheap. Jay Stansfield signed £ 15 million more than a four -time League One transfer record, but the wrapping of a popular striker was essential as a statement on the club supporters’ intention.
And do not underestimate the work that Davies brings clarification. It was an imaginative but smart choice, the right man at the right time. This is Davies’s first job in the field of management, but has a huge experience as a long -time assistant Brendan Rodgers before supporting his development under Ange postcogla in Tottenham.
When he talked to Davies in 2023, he talked about his time to calculate the passages as a child who watched Watford and was sold in the holder’s game. “People say he’s a purist,” he said about the Guardiol style. “I fundamentally disagree.” It was pure pragmatism for Davies.
During this season it led his thinking, although some supporters urged him to chase the approach of more Gung-Ho. “I think it’s the most effective way to play,” he repeated as he spoke to him on the eve of this campaign. “That’s what I believe in.”
He knew the challenge that lay in front of us. The opponents who have been overcome are so difficult. “If the opponent is only the species sitting in the block, we have to get them somehow to run,” he explained. Patience has always been necessary.
Tomoki Iwata events from zone and Sonar passing for Birmingham City in League One
He added: “The idea is that if you can circulate the ball and stretch the opposition and do it at a good speed, then the gaps inside will eventually open. We see it so many times, it takes about 60 or 70. A minute to open these gaps.”
And so it was a controlled demonstration of superiority. Ben Davies, on a Rangers loan, added a great head along with Christoph Klarr. Tomoki iwata kept it ahead of them. They were firm defensively.
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Perhaps surprisingly, Birmingham did not win three goals after the turn of the year and did not score four in the game until February. But they didn’t have to. Since August they have won seven on the first time in the league since 1946.
After the failure of the defeat at the Lower Shrewsbury Club in November, they replied by winning eight in a row in all competitions and culminating in a box of boxing before the sale crowd at ST Andrew’s. Davies talked about his team became another animal.
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The most important points of the Sky Bet League One match between Birmingham and Barnsley
This sense for the party is still improving, as evidenced by the second time around Shrewsbury and then Bashing Barnsley for the second time, it is a source of optimism. Keshi Anderson opened a close defense. Kieran Dowell has improved attacking sets. Willum Willumsson, with his deceitly fine touch, adapts.
For all, it was an experience with learning in this most visited seasons. It is already 53 games, 39 won and most played with a goal on the back, The the team to beat. On Sunday there is still the final of Wembley in Verta Trophy.
In Birmingham’s 150. The anniversary of the year is double on. And while the heroes of this campaign may not be able to ban on murals to accompany the paintings of Trevor Francis and Jude Bellingham along Cattell Road, the momentum is again with the club.
MOBIAL Painting of Club Legends Trevor Francis and Jude Bellingham Out of ST Andrew’s
What will come next? This is a question of everyone’s lips in Birmingham. Davies speaks of “taking a club on the way” and knows that he will not disappear at the championship. “If you’re thinking about slowing down, you’re in the wrong club.”
Will they be able to play in this way against a better opposition? “We play a very specific style and do not expect wholesale changes. We played against Newcastle in the FA Cup and the principles were the same, but I knew the game would look different.”
It looked different. Birmingham had his statistics to see the lowest posture of the season below 40 percent of the ball. But Iwata was still scored by the screenwriter and st Andrew roared the team as he pushed the Premier League’s side all the way into five thriller goals.
“Positions, there were modifications that we had to prepare for this game. This is an example of the opposition of higher levels and small adaptations. Moving forward is the case where the challenge is to ensure that it is set.
“The principle for me to try to be aggressive and printing.
“But I never look at it like,” I just want it to look like this way “. This is what is most effective, that’s it.
As he cut it off from cut off from the Tilton Road booth, Davies knew exactly what Birmingham needed this year. The demand, as their most famous song goes on, is that this club keeps directly. They are from the jungle, but the road continues.
