Birmingham City manager Chris Davies said his team failed to compete with Millwall in their 3-0 defeat at The Den.

Davies told BBC Radio WM: “I said to the players that we have to hold our hands up and say we didn’t deserve anything from that match. We were well below the competitiveness required when you come to a place like this, firstly to keep clean sheets and then to have a go yourself in the game.

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“This is a timely reminder of how challenging this league is, and what you have to do in every single game, and we weren’t good enough.

“Their tails were up but it wasn’t [a case of] carving us open, a lot of it was setpieces. The first [goal] was off a long throw was a great finish to be fair, an outstanding moment of quality.

“The second was a shot off a post and a rebound. These are really sloppy mistakes from our point of view and the third was a wide free kick, so it wasn’t a game where we were having massive problems generally, but when it comes to the basics, the bouncing balls and ugly side to the game, we were short and it cost us.”