Blues need to keep focus - McLeish

Birmingham are 11th in the table after taking seven points from their opening six games, including a 1-0 win at Hull last weekend. But McLeish knows City have paid for naivety and a lack of concentration at times and keeps drumming into his players the need to cut out such errors. Blues were sunk by a 95th-minute goal at Tottenham and then a last-gasp goal at home to Aston Villa before the victory against Phil Brown's side. McLeish said: "I think we've been a hard luck story in terms of certain things. "But we have also shot ourselves in the foot a little bit, with a bit of naivety and adjusting to the Premier League. "We know the Premier League can be very cruel if you make a mistake and you switch off. "The players sometimes think I am splitting hairs when I bring up little incidents like running down the clock against Spurs. "Then there was the last five minutes against Aston Villa when Gabriel Agbonlahor gets a free run into the box and scores despite us telling players to pick up. "We let them know these things and, if we don't, it is going to happen time and time again. "The good thing was that at Hull everyone stood up, took the ball, wanted to pass it, we got forward as a team and defended resolutely and we have to build on that."

Source: Team_Talk