**Ahead of the game against Preston, Blues were unbeaten at home, but also winless at home.**
Strangely for us, we have been better away so far, so it was high time we got three points at St Andrew's.
Although buoyed up by the victory at West Brom, as a typical Blues fan I was slightly concerned about us playing the team at the bottom of the league.
Past history shows that we're good at giving struggling teams a leg up to better form.
I hesitate to use the "banana skin" cliche, but we needed to put on a proper performance.
And it was a performance; it was one of those games when it's difficult to pick out just one standout player, because so many of the team played well.
August Priske is improving game by game and Jay Stansfield is instrumental to the way Blues play their pressing game.
Liam Millar now has five goal involvements in six games, which is impressive.
Alex Cochrane's quick thinking and accuracy provided the second goal, and it was great to see Demarai Gray on the scoresheet.
Once again, Christoph Klarer and Phil Neumann were solid.
We've been waiting to see Blues produce a dominant display for a while and this is exactly what was served up.
Preston were low in confidence and we preyed upon that; as well as getting more resilient, we need to be more ruthless.
As we put the game to bed early, Chris Davies was able to use this game as a opportunity to give returning players some minutes; you don't get that luxury when you're trying to hang on for a result. It was also good to get our third clean sheet of the season.
This win puts us up to fourth in the table, but I doubt Saturday will be anywhere near as easy as the next visitors are QPR, who are just one place behind us.
They chalked up a comprehensive victory over Derby County on Wednesday night, so we need to stay in that winning headspace.
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