Ivan Sunjic says that Birmingham City are targeting Nottingham Forest as a means of putting their bad run of form behind them when the two sides meet this weekend.
The Reds travel to St. Andrew's this Saturday for a 3pm kick-off to face Lee Bowyer's Blues, who have won just one of their last six matches in the Championship.
Forest, on the other hand, are unbeaten in the three matches since Chris Hughton was sacked as manager, while new head coach Steve Cooper masterminded his first win in charge when beating Barnsley in midweek.
Defensive midfielder Sunjic, who will make his 101st appearance for Birmingham when he takes to the field against Forest, believes that Saturday's meeting is a winnable tie and one they can take advantage to arrest their current slump.
“(Saturday) is an important game to get a win from, especially because we are in a bad run now, lost three, drawn one, it is not good thing, I think," the Blues player said, as quoted by Birmingham Mail.
“But we have another opportunity on Saturday, I think we can win this, then go into the international break, have a rest and then work for the next games.
“We started well, we got good momentum, we lost to Fulham, okay. But I think the Peterborough game was not good enough, I think maybe after that game confidence had a little drop.
“The QPR game we started good, then we didn’t score, if (Tahith) Chong scores it’s a completely different game.
“We have a lot of things to improve but I think the Peterborough game cost us a lot. We need to regroup and the good thing about the Championship is every two or three days there’s another game.
“Especially in this league it is important whoever scores first. Okay if we concede one goal but from my point of view the second goal is a mistake from us."
Sunjic also suggested that Birmingham will have to box clever and perhaps even play cynically in order to get a result against Cooper's charges.
“Against QPR we pressed high then because they are good on the ball the got through that press and they got straight on our back three, four or five.
“Maybe higher up the pitch if we get a little bit of a tackle, professional, you need to figure out when to do that to break it.
“Maybe I am a little bit too negative, we started really well, beat Sheff U, the Luton game was unbelievable. If we can get to 15 points by October, it’s good, we are off again.”
