Chris Davies has backed Kyogo Furuhashi hit the goal trail after missing a couple of very good chances against Oxford United.

Birmingham City played well against Gary Rowett ’s team, winning courtesy of a Paik Seung-ho first half goal and creating several other promising openings.

However, only one of their 16 shots was on target, with Furuhashi missing when clean through and then sending a free header over the bar after being picked out by Demarai Gray.

The Blues boss was happy with the nature of his team’s display. “It was a pleasing result. It was a really pleasing performance again I’m encouraged by the way we played,” Davies said.

“The game looked exactly as I thought it would do in terms of stylistically, both teams, and I thought we got good control, we obviously dominate

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