CITY were outclassed by Brentford on Tuesday evening but somehow managed to escape with a draw.

Three days earlier, City had put in a decent first-half display at Birmingham but come away with no points.

Tuesday evening was the opposite, however, with us turning in a wretched performance but getting a result.

At Birmingham on Saturday, City started brightly as they had done a week earlier in the season opener against Barnsley.

Our passing and movement was pleasing on the eye and we took a deserved lead in just the second minute as Reid bundled in after Diedhiou rattled the bar.

But for all our possession and nice interplay we were unable to create many clear cut chances and the home side equalised on the half hour mark.

Birmingham grew into the game and made a tactical change at half time that prevented City’s pressing game from working as effectively.

City head coach Johnson didn’t react to the change and Birmingham got a winner that had an air of inevitability about it.

City again started brightly in west London on Tuesday and went ahead through Josh Brownhill who fired a low shot into the net.

But it was one-way traffic after, with an impressive looking Bees team launching wave after wave of attack on the City goal.

They found City ‘keeper Fielding in inspired form though and City went in 1-0 up at the break.

But again, despite it being obvious things weren’t working, Johnson did not change things.

The inevitable goals for the home team came on 56 and 77 minutes. But there was a late twist in the tale.

Due to an injury there was 8 minutes of injury time. From somewhere City finally had a short spell of pressure at the end of the game.

Then, in that final minute of injury time, Brentford could not clear their lines and Reid pounced on a rebound off Bees ‘keeper Bentley to snatch a point for City.

I can’t say it was deserved but it made the journey back down the M4 a little more bearable!

City host Millwall at Ashton Gate on Saturday (3pm).