Pep's praise for his brave Blues

PEP CLOTET hailed his Birmingham players for sticking to their game plan after they made a shocking start at Ashton Gate.

- Richard Latham

Bristol City were in front inside a minute, Jamie Paterson racing on to a poor back pass from Marc Roberts to round goalkeeper Lee Camp and shoot into an empty net.

But, after 23 minutes, Dan Bentley could only parry a left-footed drive from Jeremie Bela and Scott Hogan was on hand to equalise.

Birmingham took the lead on the half hour as City’s Andreas Weimann got his head to a Jude Bellingham cross and only succeeded in glancing the ball into his own net.

And, in stoppage time, Lukas Jutkiewicz turned Filip Benkovic on the edge of the box before neatly beating Bentley from close range.