Troy Deeney feels that Friday night’s 2-0 loss to Sheffield Wednesday was a letdown for Birmingham City’s creative players.

Buoyed by positives from their defeats to promotion-chasing West Brom and Leicester City, Blues proceeded to Hillsborough with great optimism.

Dembele seemed impoverished to me. Bacuna seemed impoverished to me. They are the two players that, in those kinds of games, have to get into the pockets and create things. They were pretty lackluster and gave up a lot of balls.

“We can easily criticize Scotty Hogan, who hasn’t played in a while, or suggest that Stansfield should take this action, but the strikers are only as good as their support system.” They lacked a true cutting edge and had a lot of ball.

“You mention 25 shots and 63% possession, but when have we looked at any of these and said, ‘He ought to have scored?'” Tony is 100% correct in what he is saying because there were shoots between individuals and on the perimeter of the box. Making the appropriate choice is it.

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