PREVIEW | Coventry City vs Birmingham City - team news, lineups, predictions

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·26 settembre 2025

PREVIEW | Coventry City vs Birmingham City - team news, lineups, predictions

Coventry City welcome Birmingham City to the Coventry Building Society Arena this weekend, with the two sides level on points after six Championship fixtures. The game will be shown live on Sky Sports Football at 12:30.

The Sky Blues stretched their unbeaten league run to six matches last Saturday, holding Leicester City to a goalless draw in front of a packed King Power Stadium during the M69 derby.

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Birmingham, meanwhile, halted a run of three consecutive defeats without scoring in dramatic fashion. Substitute Lyndon Dykes struck deep into stoppage time to seal a much-needed win over Swansea City and lift spirits among the Blues faithful.

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Ross Cooper (SkyBlues Extra): Another local derby this weekend as we welcome Birmingham City to the CBS Arena this weekend for the 12.30 kick off.

We remain unbeaten this season in the Championship with four draws and two wins so far. After a good point out last weekend away at Leicester it is important that we back up that result with a home win against Birmingham City.

It is going to be a very tough game and potentially a fiesty one as it feels like the intensity of matches between the two clubs has certainly increased over recent seasons, possibly ever since we ground shared at St Andrews with Birmingham.

We have scored a lot of goals so far this season and are the top scorers in the league with 15 goals scored, but we have also had two goalless draws so far this season.

Our home form has been alright so far, three games (one win and two draws) and we need to start winning again at home to increase our momentum as we look ahead to a three game week before the next international break.

The biggest positive last weekend was the performance of Carl Rushworth who was given the Man of The Match Award and was easily his most complete performance so far since his arrival at the club. There was a marked improvement in the coherence between him and our defence which bodes well going into this weekend.

Going forward it is clear we have real threat, but last weekend the final decision or execution of the final ball just wasn't quite there but we will be looking to get back to the ruthless nature that saw us put QPR and Derby to the sword not that long ago.

A lot of focus is on Haji Wright, and rightly so, Frank Lampard has given him the central striker role and has backed him and there has been a marked improvement in elements of his game and him staying consistent is key to our success this weekend and beyond.

Prediction: 2-0

George Revell (Blues Focus): Birmingham City head to Coventry City on Saturday lunchtime having failed to find the net in their last two away matches.

Blues will face Frank Lampard’s side buoyed by their late win over Swansea City last weekend but a very tough challenge awaits.

Apart from scoring a 98th-minute winner to secure a dramatic 2-1 victory at Blackburn Rovers last month, Blues have drawn a blank on the road this season - and Coventry haven’t exactly struggled at home.

The Sky Blues are still unbeaten at the CBS Arena at the start of this Championship campaign, recording a 7-1 annihilation of QPR and two draws.

And Blues have struggled on the road against them recently, too. They’ve lost the last two meetings two-nil and haven’t scored in their last four trips to the CBS.

In fact, Blues haven’t beaten Coventry away from home since 2006.

It certainly feels like a case of any points that Blues do take from Coventry would be very positive ones.

Blues can win on Saturday if they get it right, but there is no doubt that it will be a rather stern test.

Prediction: 1-1