Wantaway Savage misses out again

Robbie Savage looks to have played his last game for Birmingham with a move to Blackburn set to go ahead sooner rather than later.

The Welsh international is again not included in the squad for the trip to The Valley with a knee injury given as the official reason.

Stan Lazaridis is given only a 50-50 chance of being fit after collecting a thigh injury during the FA Cup triumph over Leeds.

If he is ruled out, then either Olivier Tebily or Jamie Clapham would probably replace the Australian at left-back.

Provisional squad (from): Maik Taylor, Melchiot, Cunningham, Upson, Lazaridis, Anderton, Clemence, Carter, Gray, Morrison, Heskey, Vaesen, Clapham, Blake, Tebily, Martin Taylor.