Mark Robins believes Nigel Pearson has "sorted Bristol City out" claiming the Robins side were a "different animal" from the one his Coventry City team so meekly turned over in November.
City suffered their first league defeat at Ashton Gate this year as Viktor Gyokeres claimed a 89th-minute winner for the Sky Blues to secure a 2-1 win. But for the majority of the crowd inside the stadium, and Pearson himself, it was a performance that delivered enough positives to override the underlying negativity of the result.
The Robins staged a second-half revival to get back into the contest through Chris Martin's equaliser and looked the most likely team to win the game only for Gyokores to profit from Han-Noah Massengo's loss of possession.
