Kal Naismith insists he won’t compromise his playing principles even after a number of high-profile mistakes have blighted what has been an encouraging start to life in a Bristol City shirt.
Assessing Naismith’s first 10 games for the Robins is a complicated process; the Scot has brought so much to City’s build-up play, added creativity in the final third, especially from set-pieces, and brought significant communication and leadership at the back. But that’s been tempered by four major mistakes that have directly led to goals for the opposition - all of which have cost City points. Six in total, that could have elevated them all the way into the automatic promotion places.
There’s no secret to why it happens. Naismith’s high risk-reward approach of getting on the ball and trying to play through the lines, rather than instinctively hitting aimlessly into the channels, or clearing into the stands, opens up the possibility for unforced errors to occur.
