Michael McIndoe will be relieved of his duties as City's penalty-taker after missing a potential match-winning spot-kick against Nottingham Forest this afternoon.
Gary Johnson says he does not want to place "too much pressure" on the midfielder, who also had a penalty saved at Southampton last Saturday.
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McIndoe has enjoyed plenty of success from 12 yards out in his career to date but his latest miss cost City three points, after the home side had fought back twice to level in an entertaining 2-2 draw.
Gary told Bristol City World: "We fought back well from two poor defensive mistakes and it would have been great if we had tucked the penalty away.
"It is always great to look back in hindsight, and had he scored it would have been a big three points - now we have to make them up elsewhere.
"[It is usually] down to our people [on the pitch] to choose who will take the penalty on the day. We can all take a penalty, and plenty fire it into the top corner on the training ground all the time, but under pressure it is another thing entirely."
He added: "Generally, people only get the one chance after the one miss. Normally, if they miss that one you have to go somewhere else [next time] because they become under too much pressure to tuck that next one away.
"People are going to be disappointed, and none more so than Macca because it would have been the winning strike if he had put in.
"But, thinking of the positives, we came back twice against a Forest side who have been a good form in recent weeks. We've gone up in the table and go into the next game knowing we haven't been beaten for a couple of games. And, even though we have dropped two points, we are still within reach [of the top six]."
"It is always great to look back in hindsight, and had he scored it would have been a big three points - now we have to make them up elsewhere."
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Gary agreed with referee Graham Horwood - officiating in his only second Championship game - that the decision to award the penalty was the correct one.
"It would have been a free kick in any other part of the field so why shouldn't it be a penalty?
"Stern [John] is clever like that. He backs into people at the right time and, when they try and win it back, arches his back and draws the foul."
Jamie McCombe was removed at half-time after picking up a facial injury in a clash with Forest striker Joe Garner in the first half.
Gary revealed that Jamie, who had surgery in August to repair a fractured cheekbone picked up in the opening home league game against Derby, had been transferred to hospital for a precautionary scan.
He said: "Jamie was a big miss, especially when you want to get a goal back, but we felt it better to take him off. He got a whack on the cheekbone, and had pins and needles in his teeth, which obviously concerned the medical team."
"Thankfully it is the other side of his face [than the cheekbone he fractured] and, fingers crossed, it will be nothing like the last injury."
