Steven Caldwell will be at the heart of the Birmingham defence tonight and will be playing against Burnley for the first time since he left the club at the end of the 2009/10 season.
“This is a big game for us,” Caldwell said. “We have to win, we want to win. We want to go out there and steal a march on a good few teams. You look at our fixtures we’ve got Blackpool, Hull, Cardiff, Palace, teams who are ahead of us.
“It’s going to be a big period up to Christmas, so many important games coming up. If we are going to be challengers for first or second – which I think we can – we need to start proving it now.
“We don’t want to be a team who are always just about trying to get into the play-offs, just in them and out them, in them and out them. Let’s aim for the top two, push really hard. We’ve got the quality. A bit of luck and another couple of additions, it’s possible.
“The worse that happens if you aim for the top two and it doesn’t materialise is you are in the play-offs and then there’s still the opportunity of promotion.”
Jason Tindall took over the duties from Eddie Howe again for this game and he's looking only one way and that's up. He said: "We don't want to start talking about relegation or anything like that. Our main objective is to concentrate on our next game and put things right and start climbing up the table.
"We know we are capable of beating any team in the division. We have proved that before. We are a good side and we can't start thinking that with two or three results you become a bad side - it doesn't happen.
"You can have a bad patch and you try and come out of it as quickly as possible. That's our objective and we are confident we can do that. You can look how many points you are from the bottom but you can look at how many points you are from tenth place and it's not many.
"You string back-to-back wins together and all of a sudden you jump five or six places and that's how tight this division is."
Tindall, looking back at the Leeds game, added: "The result was disappointing but there were so many positives we can take from the game. I thought we were excellent for the majority of the game, but obviously the result is the most important thing.
"We limited Leeds to very few chances and then we switched off for a split second and got punished and that's what happens. Unfortunately we are getting punished for every little mistake we are making at the minute.
"On another day we score two or three goals and win the game comfortably but football has a habit of kicking you in the teeth and that's what happened on Saturday. It was a big blow for us, but all we can do is dust ourselves off and bounce back in the right way. There's no time to dwell on it and we have another tough game at Birmingham.
"It's a difficult place to get a result but we have to take some confidence from the performance on Saturday and put all the positives into Tuesday night's game. If we do perform like we did on Saturday we will win more games than we lose."