Wayne Rooney drops ‘failing’ midfielder as star player injury call made – Birmingham City predicted XI vs Coventry City

This Friday night, Birmingham City will return to the Sky Bet Championship when they travel to Coventry City, another West Midlands team. Wayne Rooney will be hoping for an improvement from his team, since he has only managed to register one victory in his first eight games as manager.

The previous time around, Birmingham and relegation-threatened Rotherham United drew 0-0 at St Andrew’s, which was another sad outcome. Even though they are now in 15th place, Blues are just seven points above the bottom three and, if their current bad play continues, they will soon be worried about their future.

Coventry, on the other hand, has recently shown improvement as they have defeated Plymouth Argyle and Millwall twice in their previous five games. In that run, they have lost twice, the most recent being in the test, although those losses came against elite teams like Preston North End and Ipswich Town.

Before this match, Rooney will be well aware of the threat posed by the Sky Blues and will be hoping his team can shake off their current trend of making mistakes. These 11 guys are our guesses for the starting lineup when the team travels to the Coventry Building Society Arena.