Roberts in Sky Blues thinking on Prem tilt!

BLUES are taking stock following a less-than-profitable batch of games before the second international break of the season.

- By ALEX DICKEN

Chris Davies' men accumulated five points from a five-game stretch, culminating in a hard-fought 1-1 draw at Wrexham on Friday night.

It is still early days in the Championship but 16th isn’t where Blues intended to be after nine matches.

They will now need to draw on all of their experience and few have more Championship nous than Patrick Roberts, who scored Blues’ equaliser against the Red Dragons.

Roberts, who won promotion to the Premier League with Sunderland via the playoffs in May, has reminded his Blues teammates that the Black Cats were also defeated 3-0 by Coventry last year.

He said: “I lost 3-0 to Coventry last year and we ended up in the playoffs and we won the playoffs. You can’t count this team out. The start of the season is always the same, you can have a good month and a bad month, but it’s how you pull in the right direction.