Drop escape boosts Blues
13 Feb 2008 - 07:59:04
Birmingham City defender Martin Taylor believes his team-mates have been boosted by their immediate leap out of the Premier League drop zone.
The Blues had slipped into the bottom three ahead of last Saturday's meeting with West Ham United, but the point gained in a 1-1 draw at Upton Park saw them overtake Reading and move into 17th place.
"Dropping into the relegation places last week was a bit of a downer for the lads, but now, with a bit of a break until our next league game, it is so much better to look at the table and see us not in the bottom three," Taylor told the club's official website.
"It was a hard-working point earned and we knew beforehand that, if we were going to get ourselves out of trouble, we had to go to places like that and get a result.
"We found ourselves behind but we reacted very well and got ourselves back in the game.
"It is difficult when you are in the bottom three and you go a goal down - everyone starts looking around at each other but we reacted well.
"They could have really given us a hard time but we reacted well and grew in confidence as the game went on.
"We are a bit disappointed we didn't keep a clean sheet.
"When you don't concede for 84 minutes you think you could get a reward but it was just one mistake that led to the goal.
"We have to take confidence from this now into the next game."