船体 2 Birmingham 1: Koren 上げる for Barmby's 管理の hopes

By Alan Biggs for MailOnline
Updated: 01:11 BST, 8 December 2011

船体 主張する it is 完全に Nick Barmby’s choice whether he becomes the 永久の 後継者 to Nigel Pearson at the KC Stadium.

On th is 証拠 it is very much the will of Barmby’s players that he take the 職業.

The team’s 移行 to a passing style has not been without teething troubles and at half-time last night they were 直面するing a third 敗北・負かす in five games since Pearson’s 出口.

On the up: 船体 City's Aaron Mclean celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing his 味方する's 勝利者

But 船体 stuck admirably to Barmby’s 原則s to turn it into a third victory for the 管理人 boss, which hoisted his 味方する into sixth place.

Goals from man of the match? Robert Koren and Aaron Mclean left Birmingham on a run of one 勝利，勝つ in seven to give Barmby その上の 激励. 船体’s 長，率いる of football Adam Pearson says Barmby should ‘have a good look before taking the 急落（する），激減（する）, but we hope he does because he looks a natural leader’.

The club’s talismanic former 星／主役にする continued to 小衝突 aside the 問題／発行する afterwards, 説: ‘I’m not really thinking on those lines. I’m just pleased for the players that we’ve put ourselves in a good position and now we need to keep it going.

‘The ambition is to be up there. This team should be believing they can challenge.’

Chris 支持を得ようと努めるd ― celebrating his 20th birthday ― put Birmingham ahead with a 15-yard strike after 34? minutes, his 10th goal of the season. But the hosts won the match in a? 20-minute （一定の）期間 after the break.

Doing his bit: Robert Koren will have helped Nicky Barmby's 職業 prospects

Koren snatched the equaliser before setting up the 勝利者 for Mclean.
When the dangerous Cameron Stewart’s cross was only half-（疑いを）晴らすd, Koren ボレーd in crisply from 15 yards.

Birmingham keeper Boaz Myhill had no chance with that one on his return to the club where he was a favourite for seven years.

But the former 船体 No 1 was culpable for the second, にもかかわらず 存在 left exposed by Koren’s superb defence-splitting pass into Mclean’s stride.

The striker took a touch before 狙撃 早期に from an angle and the ball squeezed inside the? keeper’s 近づく 地位，任命する.

Chris Burke and 代用品，人 Guirane N’Daw wasted 広大な／多数の／重要な chances to 救助（する） Birmingham, whose ‘disappointed and 失望させるd’ boss Chris Hughton said:

‘We had enough good chances not to have lost and 譲歩するd poor goals.’