Alex McLeish tells Birmingham City to start the way they finished

Mar 24 2010 by Colin Tattum, Birmingham Mail

ALEX McLeish has told Birmingham City to take the ‘enormous positives’ from their game at Sunderland, despite the 3-1 reverse.

Tonight Blues travel to Blackburn Rovers to an Ewood Park venue where they have not won since 1968.

But that statistic doesn’t bother Big Eck, who pointed to the dynamic second-half display at the Stadium of Light and asked for more of the same.

“We lost and of course we were disappointed at that,” said McLeish. “But anyone who was there and watched the game could see there were enormous positives to take because we were fantastic in the second-half.

“Our start was shocking, we were all over the place, we weren’t as compact as we normally are and the reputation we have earned this season for being that way.

“We have spoken about it, looked at it, the players have taken it on the chin and we will look to start the Blackburn game the way we finished the Sunderland game.”

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