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Birmingham City Vs. Coventry City: Lineups

The FA Cup can bring us great games. There've been numerous classic FA Cup matches over the years, and this is almost certainly not going to be one of them. Birmingham City are the second most boring team in all of Europe's top flight leagues, and although I don't want Coventry anymore, I used to and they used to be boring. They're also 14th in the Championship without scoring or conceding many goals, which makes them even more likely to be boring. So I'm going to be closed minded and declare that this game will quite probably be boring. Birmingham don't even care about the FA Cup, considering the lineup they're putting out, but considering the way their first team play that might actually help:

Birmingham (4-4-2): Doyl; Parnaby, Jiranek, Ridgewell, Murphy; Bentley, Fahey, Hleb, Beausejour; Phillips, Zigic.

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

Coventry (4-4-2): Westwood; Keough, Craine, Wood, O’Halloran; Baker, Thomas, Gunnarsson, McSheffrey; King, Platt.

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

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