By CovSid67
August 28 2012

Head-To-Head, Recent Form, Team News, and the Latest Betting Odds, ahead of Tuesday's League Cup fixture between Coventry City and Birmingham City.

The two sides have played each other 54 times (In all competitions), with Coventry City winning 16 times, Birmingham City 23, and 15 matches being drawn. The two sides have met three times in the League Cup, with both sides winning once, and the other fixture being a draw.

The last time the two sides met in the League Cup (September 1996), a Gary MacAllister goal was enough to take the Sky Blues through after a drawn fixture at Highfield Road (Where Daish's 88th minute goal against his former side cancelled out ex-Coventry striker Paul Furlong's goal).

Birmingham defeated Barnet 5-1 to make it through to the second round of the Cup, and in the Championship have started the season with one draw and two defeats (Zigic's 90th minute equaliser against Charlton stopped it being three defeats in three). Marlon King has scored twice for the Blues this season, with both goals coming from the penalty spot.

Coventry City are 38/15 to win, Birmingham City are 5/4 to win, with the draw at 44/17 (Best odds). A 1-1 draw is 6/1, 1-0 to Birmingham is 7/1, with the same scoreline fo Coventry at 9/1. Coventry to win 4-1, under the temporary care of Shaw and Carsley, is 100/1, while Blues to win 3-0 is 22/1.

Five Birmingham players make the first scorer betting before a Coventry player gets a look-in, with King at 11/2, and Zigic and Lovenkrands at 13/2, Rooney is 7/1, while for CCFC, Ball, McDonald, McSheffrey, Elliott, and O'Donovan are all at 8/1 (The odds are 100/1 for any CCFC player to score a hat-trick). Malaga, who's already had a legitimate goal chalked off due to sub-standard officiating this season, is 50/1.

Clarke and Fleck are out for the home side.