Source: Team_Talk
Hleb demands better from Blues
irmingham midfielder Alexander Hleb has told his team-mates to show more fight if they are to improve on last season's ninth-placed finish.[LNB] The Belarus international, on loan at St Andrews from Barcelona for the remainder of the season, has tasted both victory and defeat in his opening two games for the club.[LNB]Memories of the 3-1 derby reverse to West Brom were quickly cast aside with a win by the same scoreline against MK Dons in the Carling Cup three days later.[LNB]But Hleb, while admitting the Blues are lacking the quality he is used to after playing for Arsenal and Barcelona in the Champions League, is still demanding a big improvement.[LNB]"Of course it's different to Arsenal and Barcelona," he said. "I know that, everybody can see that it's different. I need to accept this and try to bring my best to this team.[LNB]"Here there is not the same quality from players, people don't keep the ball as much.[LNB]"This is a different side and we need to fight for points.[LNB]"Saturday was difficult, I don't know what happened. We recovered but then we didn't keep the ball, we didn't play football.[LNB]"On Tuesday, we did well in the first half and scored three good goals. We were playing well but after that it was not so good.[LNB]"I don't know why, we were so scared and didn't control the ball.[LNB]"I hope on Saturday we will play better, more like we did in our draw with Liverpool."
