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No one can say the balance of Birmingham City’s defence didn’t look better against Swansea City.

Jack Robinson replaced Phil Neumann to allow Christoph Klarer to move back to his natural right side and there were no issues playing out from defence.

The benefit of playing with a left-footed centre-back is the passing angles and lanes that it creates. During his brief spell on the other side Klarer, as a right-footed player, couldn’t open up and play forward and quite often his only pass was a short one to Alex Cochrane.

That in turn put pressure on Cochrane to always be available and to find the forward pass that Klarer couldn’t. We saw a huge improvement from the two players in question with Robinson between them last weekend.

Phil Neumann was the unfortunate casual

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