Bruno N'Gotty has urged Blues to keep their momentum going in the wake of their fifth win in seven Championship games, writes Colin Tattum in the Birmingham Mail.

The defender headed Blues' first goal last night and then defended manfully to help keep QPR at bay.

"It is good where we are," said the centre-half.

"We just have to take the points where we can and carry on in the same way and stay top of the league.

"Home games are very important so we need to win on Saturday against Ipswich Town.

"We cannot just stay in this performance, we have to move on to the next one and get another win.

"I think our team is still growing. It has been difficult because everybody is saying 'we need to get back in the Premiership'.

"Every game is a pressure game for us and we are supposed to win every game.

"In the Championship that is difficult, of course. We have a good team, but everybody wants to beat Birmingham.

"We need the maximum every game and sometimes we will play well, sometimes we will play badly - that's normal over a long season.

"But I am confident we can keep our momentum going and achieve our ambition."

With N'Gotty and Radhi Jaidi in particular among the ranks, Blues have become much more of a threat from set-pieces.

N'Gotty added: "You see a lot of goals from free-kicks and corners in this league, in football.

"It is important there is a good delivery of the ball so that you can attack it. Whether it's me, maybe Radhi or another player, we have to get onto the end of the crosses.

"You work hard on the training ground to perfect this kind of free-kick and last night it paid off.

"I think we can score more goals from them. In our last game we had good corners and Nicklas Bendtner scored, we hit the post from a free-kick as well. We can score more - and we have to."

Also in the Birmingham Mail, Cameron Jerome today vowed that Blues would do everything in their power to stay top of the Championship.

"It remains to be seen whether we will, but we should aim to stay there definitely," he said.

"We have got into a little run now; we have got the knack of winning, which is a good habit. So let's keep it going, that's what we want to do.

"The performances are not as great as we would like, they are there in flashes, but not throughout the whole game.

"I know people might be frustrated at that but they've got to be patient, the boys are working at it.

"Teams are making it difficult for us to play football. They are aggressive against us. Most games in this league are a battle and very physical.

"And, to be fair, we are coping with it quite well, and trying to be better than that by playing our football.

"We are learning to adapt, and I think it showed last night."

Jerome said his first goal was a weight off his shoulders.

"I would have taken a goal off my knee, just to score the first one," admitted the summer signing from Cardiff.

"It has taken the pressure off me now and I can just concentrate on trying to get in the team and score more.

"It has been frustrating so far for me, definitely. I was suspended after getting sent off in our first game and I was injured so I couldn't play last Saturday.

"Hopefully I can go on from here and do more of the same."

Bendtner is now suspended for Saturday's match against Ipswich Town, which gives Jerome the chance of making his first league start.

"Hopefully I will. Both the strikers (Bendtner and DJ Campbell) have been in good form and there's Mikael Forssell wanting to play too so if I'm on the bench on Saturday's it's no problem.

"I've just come back; I've got to earn a place."