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Birmingham boss Chris Davies was delighted his side showed patience before beating 10-man Leicester 2-1 to boost their play-off hopes.
Leicester's Bobby De Cordova-Reid was sent off after 32 minutes and Davies liked the way his Blues kept going before Jay Stansfield scored the winner midway through the second half.
Davies told BBC Radio WM: "I think we got off to a great start, Ossie's [Ibrahim Osman] press and finish got us going and we looked really bright at the start of the game, one-up. I like the way we started the game with a bit of intent.
"I was frustrated with their goal. It was a really nice finish from the winger, but we're frustrated we let that cross come in and then we didn't deal with the second phase.
"It was a definite red card and from then on, like I said to the players, it's really a mental game when it's 10 v 11 because you can get so frustrated and you can think it's going to be easy. But when you take the ball down one side of the pitch and they narrow off, they've got just as many bodies as they would normally have in that situation with 11.
"So it's about switching the play and really doing it at speed to try and make them run and open the gaps. In the end, the goal we got was an eye-of-the-needle pass from Marvin Ducksch, but we made them run and opened spaces that we exploited."
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