Curtis Davies believes that Birmingham City's European adventure is having nothing but a positive impact on the team.

Blues were galvanised after their win in Slovenia against NK Maribor.

They returned to triumph at Nottingham Forest and then saw off Leicester City at St Andrew’s.

The dramatic win at Bruges, that put Blues top of Europa League group H, was followed up by victory at Bristol City.

That made it five successive wins for Chris Hughton’s outfit.

"We’re taking it as it comes," said the centre-half.

"Nothing was expected of us, I don’t think the fans expected anything from us, they were just looking forward to a good European tour.

"After three games, we’re top of the league.

"We’ve got ourselves into that position because of good play and good wins.

"We want to win every game we go into.

"People may say ‘is it a stretch?’ or whatever, having to deal with Europe and the Championship.

"But I don’t care what anyone says, if you are winning games, you get confidence.

"It’s different if you’re playing against the likes of Real Madrid and Juventus and you’re getting battered four or five nil and then going into Championship games.

"That could numb your confidence. But the fact is we’ve gone to two tough away places and won both, then come back and won both our league games as well."

Hughton has carefully rotated his starting line-ups, and Blues only came a cropper in their opening group fixture, at home to SC Braga.

In Bruges, there were six alterations made to the team that beat Leicester.

Jean Beausejour, Morgaro Gomis, Stephen Carr and Liam Ridgewell did not figure or were held in reserve.

Adam Rooney and Nikola Zigic started, and they were replaced from the off at Bristol by Marlon King and Chris Wood.

Blues squad may not be the deepest, but the calibre of player available to Hughton is even.

"That’s one thing I’ve always said," commented Davies, who returned from injury on Sunday for Pablo.

"The players on the bench, the couple that are left out, all of them can come in and play.

"It can be different when you’ve got a squad of - I don’t know - maybe 13, 14 players for the actual first team 11 and the others are back up.

"In this team, anyone can come in and play and you wouldn’t realise.