All change for Birmingham

Central defenders Martin Jiranek and Liam Ridgewell are the only players to keep their places in the Birmingham team for today’s FA Cup fourth-round clash against Coventry.

Manager Alex McLeish had hinted at plenty of changes following Wednesday’s gruelling Carling Cup semi-final win over West Ham and so it proves, with keeper Colin Doyle, midfielders David Bentley and Alexander Hleb and strikers Kevin Phillips and Nikola Zigic among those brought in.

A calf injury to Roger Johnson and the unavailability of new signing Curtis Davies means that McLeish had little choice but to stick with Jiranek and Ridgewell, while Coventry boss Aidy Boothroyd made two changes, bringing in Clive Platt and Conor Thomas.

Birmingham: Doyle, Parnaby, Jiranek, Ridgewell, Murphy, Bentley, Fahey, Hleb, Beausejour, Phillips, Zigic.

Subs: Foster, Larsson, Gardner, Jerome, Derbyshire, Mutch, Kerr.

Coventry: Westwood, Keogh, Cranie, Wood, O’Halloran, Baker, Thomas, Gunnarsson, McSheffrey, King, Platt.

Subs: Ireland, Bell, Eastwood, Jutkiewicz, Clarke, Cameron, Ruffles.

Referee: Mike Dean.