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Birmingham City have four key players running the risk of suspension – but Chris Davies has told them to ‘play their natural game’.

Bright Osayi-Samuel has already incurred a one-match ban for picking up five yellow cards this season and hasn’t been able to regain his place in the starting line-up.

Tomoki Iwata is one booking away from a ban and Christoph Klarer, Paik Seung-ho – who suffered a worrying shoulder injury in the defeat to Middlesbrough on Saturday – and Jay Stansfield are all at risk on three yellow cards.

Fortunately for Blues, all of the players in question avoided a booking on Saturday, but there are still four games before the first yellow card amnesty of the season comes in.

Players will no longer receive a ban for accumulating five yellow cards af

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