Defeat leaves play-offs 'unlikely' - Davies

Birmingham City boss Chris Davies says Saturday's narrow 1-0 defeat by Charlton Athletic at The Valley leaves the play-offs looking "unlikely" for his side.

Blues were beaten by Charlie Kelman's 74th-minute goal following a long throw and inflicted a third straight league loss on Davies, in his 100th game in charge, for the first time since taking over at St Andrew's in the summer of 2024.

The result left Blues 12th now eight points off the top six with 10 games to go.

"I think it would be unlikely that we'd go and make the play-offs with the amount of points we'd have to get," Davies told BBC Radio WM.

"We'd have to have some incredible run, which I know been done here before, but first things first, we need to get back to winning ways.

"It was another disappointing result. We didn't do enough to win the game. It was a game of very, very few chances.

"We had some decent situations in the second half but didn't capitalise on when we had the momentum.

"It's such a soft way to lose - from a long throw into the box, bouncing ball, scrappy goal. It's very frustrating.

"We've got to do more. We can't expect to win gets if, in those critical moments, we don't defend well enough.

"I'm really frustrated. It was a game we let get away from us and I expected more. We've got to learn and we really need to pull together now and finish the season strong."