'Birmingham have hit challenging spell' - Davies

Birmingham City boss Chris Davies admits his side have endured a "challenging spell" following back-to-back away defeats in the Championship.

Blues suffered a 1-0 defeat at Stoke City last Saturday, a fortnight after losing 2-0 at Leicester prior to the international break.

"I think we started brightly in our first few games and we have just hit a little bit of a challenging spell with these few away games, but my job is to find the perspective pretty quickly," Davies told BBC Radio WM.

"I am looking at those two games as the harder games that we will have this season, especially on the road. We are back at home on Saturday, where we are typically very strong, so we are looking forward to that game."

Davies' side are without a goal in their past three games in all competitions, including a defeat by Port Vale in the Carabao Cup.

"It is something we are aware of," the 40-year-old added. "I certainly don't want to create too much of it, but it is about how we can become more unpredictable at times in order to create more goal chances.

"Our build-up play is quite good. We can get through the lines into the final third OK - we have had a lot of entries into the box in comparison to Leicester and Stoke - but we haven't been able to convert that into big chances."

Birmingham host Swansea City on Saturday (12:30 BST) and the Swans come into the game off the back of a dramatic midweek Carabao Cup comeback victory against Nottingham Forest.

In seventh spot, they are four places and one point better off than Blues.

"It is a club I know pretty well and that I am very familiar with," added Davies, a former Wales Under-19 international.

"But like anything, that counts for very little when the game gets going. They have had a strong start themselves and they will be really buoyed by their victory [over Forest], so I think they will come full of confidence."

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