THE BAD displays from City this season have certainly outweighed the good ones. However, we produced a timely good one against Wolverhampton Wanderers last Saturday with a cracking 3-1 victory, says Will Collins

After turning in two wretched displays on the road against Brentford and Preston, the latter game resulting in City’s players refunding City’s traveling fans their ticket price, it was good to see a backlash from the team.

There was a distinct lack of effort and motivation shown in both the Brentford and Preston games which is frankly never acceptable to the fans who spend their time and hard earned money following the club.

So Saturday’s performance was really the least we deserved.

City’s opening goal was a peach from Jamie Paterson, a player who hasn’t been involved much of late.

Matty Taylor laid the ball off neatly to the forward who curled the ball beautifully into the far corner from just outside the area.

City were perhaps a little fortunate with the second when Mark Little was adjudged to have been brought down in the penalty area.

It looked harsh but Tammy Abraham was the benefactor as he stepped up to score from the spot – his 20th league goal of the campaign.

His 21st came early in the second half and the game was over as a contest.

Wolves grabbed a consolation goal late on but City deserved this win.

The victory lifts us four points clear of Blackburn Rovers who currently occupy the final relegation place in the Championship.

The Easter weekend brings two massive fixtures for the Robins.

Firstly, QPR visit Ashton Gate on Good Friday (3pm) and then we travel to Blackburn for a huge six-pointer in the fight for survival.

Blackburn are really struggling to pick up points at the moment with no win in their last seven games.

I feel a win over QPR and avoiding defeat at Blackburn will all but secure our Championship status, given we also have two winnable home games to come against Barnsley and Birmingham.

We can’t take anything for granted, however. The players and management must guard against the kind of complacency and poor performance like we saw last week.