The Manchester United talent that 'can't return fast enough' for Birmingham City

Birmingham City mugged Peterborough with two late goals to secure a 2-2 draw at St Andrew’s last night.

Lacklustre Blues were heading to a desperate defeat against Posh, until with five minutes to go Gary Gardner pulled one back and then soon after Scott Hogan bagged his ninth of the season.

Here’s what stood out on a surprising evening.

There can be no lipstick put on this pig. As grateful as everyone was to see two late goals give Blues a point, the comeback should not obscure the fact that Blues were lucky to get anything from this game.

Let the record show they were poor for 85 minutes, really poor. Physically they were a long way short of where they needed to be – and if you’re not running or fighting hard enough it becomes difficult to make any tactics or formation work.

The stats will show that Blues had more shots than Peterborough, that they had as much possession and actually completed a higher percentage of passes. That doesn’t even begin to tell the story of a really flat display.

Only Scott Hogan, Teden Mengi, Marc Roberts and the three subs, can claim to have played anything like well enough.

Perform like that at Derby and they’ll get ravaged by an enterprising side in a false position in the league .

Blues ended the game with three wingers all on the left of the team. Jeremie Bela had been at left back since half time, Jordan Graham came on to replace Jordan James as a wide central midfielder and Onel Hernandez operated in the front-line.

It was then that lop-sided Blues began to pepper the Peterborough area, from which they scored twice and stole the most unlikely of points.

Therefore, logic would suggest that if Blues had started with wingers the danger to the Posh goal would have been there for the