After four successive defeats, Bristol City made it three games unbeaten against a resolute Birmingham City side.

The Robins made it two away wins in a row with a home draw against Millwall sandwiched in between.

Lee Johnson’s side had looked like they were on a slippery slope towards the lower reaches of the league, but have since been able to pull away and now find themselves comfortably in mid-table.

It was a close encounter between Garry Monk’s side and their visitors with only five shots on target in total from both teams.

It was always going to be a game that was to be won by the odd goal, and that was proved to be the case.

Clinical

The opening goal came on 63 minutes from Famara Diedhiou, who was clinical at St. Andrews.

The 25-year-old had two shots during the 90 minutes - a quarter of his side’s efforts - and saw one off target.

His other effort, found the back of the net - scoring with 50 per cent of his chances on goal in what was a game with minimal goalmouth action.

Sloppy

Despite being handy in front of goal, with the ball he was sloppy at times, being dispossessed five times during the match - the most of any player during the afternoon.

And with his two dribbles of the match, he only managed to complete one of those.

For a forward player who is a mountain of a man and physically one of the strongest, he was pretty weak in the air, winning just eight of his 11 aerial duels attempted.

Resilient

Having had the high of scoring the goal and the relative low of being below par with his forward runs and aerial prowess, Diedhiou managed to win all three of his tackles he attempted.

As well as winning possession three times, he managed to complete 50 per cent of his passes.

While doing all that, as well as getting shots away and scoring, the 25-year-old striker did that with just 43 touches of the ball during his 90 minutes on the pitch - and while having a yellow card over his head from the 49th minute.

The verdict

This performance showed both sides of his game and the improvement that is needed, Diedhiou is still relatively young and will have the ability to improve if he wants to.

Clinical in front of goal and in a tackle, other areas need to be worked on with the lack of aerial duels won and dribbles mate/completed.

Passing statistics, too, could be better but when goals are scored, then all the other parameters fade into insignificance somewhat.

Had he failed to score, then questions might have been asked of his performance - which overall could undoubtedly be improved