{"id":192243,"date":"2025-09-14T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/192243\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:28:16","slug":"blues-shouldnt-lose-heart-says-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/192243\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;lose heart,&#8221; says Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City boss Chris Davies says that he doesn&#8217;t want the side to &#8220;lose too much heart&#8221; after suffering a second successive loss in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The West Midlands side conceded a narrow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c8d7q1jzp09t?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:1-0 loss to Stoke City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">1-0 loss to Stoke City<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You expect it to be a tough start here and we weren&#8217;t good enough in the first 20 minutes or half an hour and it cost us the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very rarely have I seen us as passive and soft as that in the opening periods of a game &#8211; there weren&#8217;t enough blue shirts winning second balls and in the duels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was all us in the second half without turning that possession and dominance into meaningful chances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a surprise to me how tough the Championship [is] but we have to make sure we don&#8217;t lose too much heart from it and learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0kfv42l?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Listen to the full post-match interview with Davies and more Birmingham City content on BBC Sounds.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Listen to the full post-match interview with Davies and more Birmingham City content on BBC Sounds.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Listen on BBC Sounds\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"842\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/05dea5e5e55f425d082ca5fda358b207.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[BBC]<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757809696_215_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City boss Chris Davies says that he doesn&#8217;t want the side to &#8220;lose too much heart&#8221; after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[32908,71,32906,5,4,534,84,5285,5284,32907],"class_list":{"0":"post-192243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-birmingham-city","9":"tag-blues","10":"tag-chris-davies","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-blues","15":"tag-stlouis","16":"tag-stlouisblues","17":"tag-stoke-city"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115199823317691114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}