Key player Vs. Fulham

Fulham are the visitors to St Andrews this Saturday where Blues have the opportunity to bounce back from successive defeats and earn a first win under Gianfranco Zola.

Slavisa Jokanovic`s side are just three points off the top six and are on a run of just two defeats from their last 10, so they’ll be high in confidence when they come to face Blues.

If we are to see that first win under Zola, then I think that Tuesday nights Man of the Match Kerim Frei will have a key part to play against his former club.

Blues are seriously lacking that cutting edge going forward at the minute and there’s way too much pressure on Lukas Jutkiewicz to deliver the goods.

Frei created our best chance of the game against Reading which Jutkiewicz just couldn’t connect with and it`s the creativity of the Turkish winger that we should look towards utilising more often.

As I said in my previous key player article, we must feed the ball to Frei as much as possible and give him the chance to run at the opponents defence and frighten them from the get-go.

His sheer pace alone is enough to get him in behind the Fulham rearguard but his ability to beat his man is something that we must use to our advantage.

The key thing, though, is to get bodies up in support of the attack and we need runners from midfield to get on the end of those Frei cutbacks and the loose balls that drop.

The deadline day arrival of Jerome Sinclair will hopefully add some more firepower to the attack and if he can be the man to show those instincts in the box, then we could be onto something.

The emphasis will be on Blues, being the home team, to attack Fulham from the start and we can’t have anymore of this laboured sideways passing that gets us nowhere.

It’s all good having possession of the ball but if we don’t do anything with it or fail to create chances then it counts for nothing.

We need to have a sense of unpredictability about us and Kerim Frei is the perfect option to have that allows us to do just that.