Aitor praise for his team’s fighting spirit

AITOR Karanka praised his team for coming from behind on Tuesday night to claim points for the second time in successive matches.

Blues weren’t able to finish off the job in the way they had against QPR on Saturday, but they did at least equalise at Huddersfield through Marc Roberts – five minutes after going behind.

The head coach felt his side should have gone on to seal the victory – with Scott Hogan missing a late chance – but he insisted this was a match in which Blues would have buckled a few weeks ago.

“We had more chances than them, especially the last one

Scotty had the chance to win the game,” Karanka said.

“Once again we started loosely but we had a good come back and I could feel that they (Huddersfield) are not the team they were at the beginning of the season.

“For us it has been a good game, for sure in the past we would have lost that game, now we are better. We have a point, we are keeping them close to us in the table. “I think it is a good point and especially a good performance. “We had a very good reaction

(to conceding), it is not a mentality problem because every single time we had one goal against us we had a very good reaction, once again today scored and today the reaction was really good and we had more chances to win the game.

“Nobody needs to apologise because if every single player who made a mistake this season had to apologise we would have all of them apologising. When you put one hundred per cent on the pitch you don’t have to apologise.” Karanka also explained why he made three changes to a team that had performed much better in the last couple of weeks, Gary Gardner and Scott Hogan particularly missed.

“They couldn’t start the game because they were exhausted, with the four games or five games that they have played,” he said.

“I knew they were going to be really important in the last 15-20 minutes because they have the quality, they have the experience and they have the energy to play those minutes.”