Wayne Rooney makes Birmingham City promise after admitting this ‘can’t continue’

Wayne Rooney admits Birmingham City are in a ‘difficult place’ after six defeats from his nine matches in charge.

Blues slipped to an eighth straight away defeat against Coventry City at the CBS Arena on Friday night and 4,000 supporters showed their displeasure at the final whistle. Ex-Aston Villa player Callum O’Hare bagged a brace for the Sky Blues on another sorry night for Rooney’s men.

“We’re in a difficult place, we know that, with the run of results and the points we’re losing,” said Rooney. “The big thing is the goals we’re conceding are very poor goals. We have to figure it out and make sure we don’t give easy goals away. The run of form can’t continue.

“Of course I understand the fans’ frustration. That’s normal when you go through a run of results like this and we have to change this as quickly as possible. If I was a fan in the stands there tonight I would be exactly the same. But what I can tell you is we’re working really hard to fix it, to improve results and performances.”

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Siriki Dembele lost the ball cheaply on halfway in the build-up to O’Hare’s opening strike. Individual errors have been a theme of recent matches and Rooney knows it has to change.

He added: “We are getting punished when we’re making mistakes and we need to cut that out. Throughout the 90 minutes Coventry were the better team, so they deserved to win the game.

“We let ourselves down with the goals we conceded. That’s my responsibility, it’s on me to get the players to perform better and pick up more points than we have done. It’s disappointing when you concede goals that are avoidable.”