Birmingham City endure injury nightmare as Lee Bowyer hits back at training claims

Birmingham City were unable to interrupt Huddersfield Town's play-off charge on a costly afternoon at St Andrew's.

First half goals from Levi Colwill and Lewis O'Brien saw the Terriers extend their unbeaten run to 17 games in all competitions.

Although Blues stuck at it - and were able to give first team minutes to the returning Tahith Chong, everything that could have gone wrong before and during the first half did .

Lyle Taylor was injured in the warm-up, bringing Jordan James into the team - then in the 24th minute Maxime Colin went down and was replaced by Ivan Sunjic.

That forced Gary Gardner into central defence and left Blues with only one fit senior defender.

Predictably the reorganisation became disorganisation and Blues quickly shipped two goals.

First a Sorba Thomas corner flew to the back post where Terriers players were queuing up.

Colwill chested the ball into the middle and it seemed to ricochet off Gardner and into the net.

Huddersfield grabbed their second just before half time when Gardner failed to clear a ball over the top.

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“Trust me I have trained myself for 18 years and I know if we are over training or the intensity,” the Blues boss hit back when questioned over the intensity of training.

“If you can’t train the way we train then how can you perform the way we perform, with the intensity? We don’t over-train at all, no. Not at all.

“If anything now we are probably going the other way because we are so scared because we keep getting injuries. We are coming off them more.

“We train an hour a day, that’s including the warm-up, so not, that’s not the reason (for injuries).

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"I'm pleased with the commitment of the players. When you play a lot of games in a row