By CovSid67
August 13 2011

Head-To-Head, Recent Form, Team News, and the Latest Betting Odds, ahead of Saturday's Championship match between Birmingham and Coventry City.

Birmingham and Coventry City have met 52 times previously, with Birmingham having won 22 times (19 in the League), Coventry having won 16 times (14 in the league), and 14 matches have ended in a draw (13 in the league). The two sides met in the F.A. Cup last season, at St. Andrews, with Coventry City blowing a two-goal lead, with a dismal second half display. The last time the two sides met in the league, 2008/9, Coventry City won both fixture 1-0. 

Both sides started this season with a defeat, with Birmingham City losing 2-1 away to Derby. Birmingham were not involved in the First Round of the Carling Cup, so, unlike Coventry City, didn't suffer an embarrassing defeat. 

Coventry City's thread-bare squad will thankfully be without Carl Baker, and without Richard Wood too (As well as half-a-dozen others mentioned two defeats ago). Birmingham will be without Marlon King, Cameron Jerome, and Nikola Zigic. Scott Dann is in the Birmingham squad, possibly playing his last match for the club before joining a top Premiership side. 

Birmingham are 4/5 to win, Coventry City are a fairly huge 4/1, with the draw at 11/4. Birmingham to win 2-1 is 8/1, while Coventry to win 2-1 is 16/1. Birmingham to win 4-0 is as low as 40/1. Birmingham to be winning at half-time, Coventry to be winning at full-time, is 59/1 (Coventry H/T, Birmingham F/T, as per the FA Cup last season, is 29/1). Five Birmingham players are on the first scorer list before Jutkiewicz is mentioned, with said player being 9/1. Freddie Eastwood, possibly out till October, is 10/1....