"Humbling" - Ex-Birmingham City striker Troy Deeney reacts to Tom Brady & Tom Wagner clip from EFL Trophy defeat | OneFootball

The Blues lost 2-0 to Peterborough United at Wembley, on Sunday.

Troy Deeney believes that Birmingham City's EFL Trophy final defeat to Peterborough United could work out being a good thing for the club and its players, whose pain, he believes, was reiterated to them by the club's chairman and owner, Tom Wagner, after the match.

Two brilliant goals from The Posh put a stop to Birmingham continuing their near-perfect season, the day after they became League One champions thanks to Wrexham failing to beat Wigan Athletic.

It's probably the first time that Blues have fallen short of expectations all season. Against the 16th-placed side in their division, they were huge favourites to walk out of Wembley as the winners, but it wasn't to be.

Troy Deeney's thoughts on Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner's post-final defeat speech

After the match, when the players went to collect their runners-up medals, Wagner gave his team a speech, of which the exact contents of it were not revealed by the chairman after the match.

Deeney, a former Blues player, believes that the American businessman, alongside co-owner and NFL legend Tom Brady, was telling his team to use the pain of the defeat at Wembley to spur them on as they now look towards a new challenge of competing in the Championship.

"It could be a blessing in disguise," Deeney said of Birmingham's EFL Trophy final defeat on Sky Sports, via Birmingham Live. "Everything since the new ownership has come in has gone up and it's been on a massive trajectory.

"Sometimes you need a humbling experience and this might be that for them. If they had won this, won the league with 100 points, they could go into next season thinking they were going to get promoted. That's not how it works.

"Football has a way of humbling you and Birmingham and Birmingham City fans, myself included, have to take today and ask how we can build from it. This occasion wasn't good enough.

"They're all being spoken to now by the owner and they know they've lost by not putting in their best performance," Deeney added.

"When you don't deliver the best version of yourself it's a long old evening. I think that's what Tom Wagner is saying to them, 'Remember this feeling, remember what it's like to lose, because that's what is going to carry you forward'."

Birmingham City must be fueled on by Wembley defeat for the rest of the season

Even though Birmingham have nothing physical left to play for in terms of silverware, they are still hunting down Wolverhampton Wanderers' League One points record of 103.

They only need nine points from six games in order to achieve that, but the loss at Wembley should only sharpen their focus on achieving it.

They have been faced with some problems along the way this season, but City have still managed to pretty much walk the league, as they were expected to do.

They were expected to walk through Peterborough too, but they were unexpectedly stopped in their tracks.

Even with all of their financial backing, those players and the manager are still human. That might become even more apparent next season if Chris Davies and his players have any thoughts of doing to the second tier what they have done to the third tier.