'It's crazy' - Every word from Lee Bowyer as Birmingham City hold Stoke

Lee Bowyer spoke with the press after Saturday's 2-2 draw with Stoke City.

The Birmingham City boss was pleased with his team's display, the contribution of Ryan Woods and Jordan James - and gave an update about the hamstrung Teden Mengi.

Here's a transcript of Bowyer's post match press conference.

I thought was a good game, from the start with seven attack minded players out of the ten outfield, I thought it was going to be an open game and it turned out to be that way. We deserved a point.

Once we took a 1-0 lead their full backs were causing us problems they were getting out too much so we had to change shape a little bit, had to adjust.

Going 2-1 down was frustrating a little bit because both their goals – the first one I don;t even know what’s happened and the second one we let him come in on his strong foot and a good finish.

To come here, they are a good team, to get a point and had we really taken care a little bit when we were hitting them on the break, I don’t know how many times we hit them on the break.

We got Onel into great positions and with a little bit more care we could have scored more.

The whole back four – you are playing two full backs as centre halves and two wingers as full backs, it’s crazy when you think about it.

But I think all four of them were outstanding. Bela and Jordan playing against really good wingers and obviously Max and Peds to put in the shift they did, I thought the whole back four were outstanding..

I just feel like he is getting better again, getting back to the player we had at the start of the season in possession.

There were some great passes, one stands out – outside of his foot, bends it round to Lyle, one-v-one with the defender and the defender gets away with it. But the