CLOTET CONTENT WITH THE BLUES’ DISPLAYS

PEP CLOTET will not let Birmingham’s blip overshadow his side’s impressive start to the campaign.

The Blues lost just two of their first seven games this season under the caretaker boss.

But after an impressive 1-0 win at Charlton, Birmingham suffered a run of three straight defeats.

But Clotet, 42, said: “We have a good number of points, we are sitting well above expectation.

“But are we happy about it? No. Are we happy about the last few results? No. Are we happy about performances? We are – the performance at Derby, most of the performance at Wigan as well.

“For whatever reason, the results didn’t go hand to hand with the performance. That’s football and it happens, not just to us, but every team.

“We all know where we came from this summer and we had a really good start, the best start in 11 years so they say.

“We need to put things into perspective. Yes, there is always pressure in football. I am more worried not having the performances because results come from good performances.

“It’s not like being naive to think ‘performance, performance, performance’, no, no. At the end of the day we want to win every game and we want to win every game playing well to the best of our abilities.

“We have not lost confidence because these performances have given us a good step forward for ourselves and for the work that we do – and we know we are on the right track. We have had a solid start, sitting in a good position.”