City Reserves V Arsenal Preview

Last updated : 08 March 2005 By Covsupport

With only three home games left, City are playing two of those back at Highfield Road. The first is tonight and brings Arsenal to Highfield Road.

Alan Cork has announced only one change to the side which travelled to Stevenage Borough to play Tottenham last week, only for the game to be postponed, with Andy Whing playing in the defence at the expense of Liam Nicell.

Trialist from Manchester United, Mark Howard gets another chance to prove his worth and will be alongside two more players with Manchester United connections in Eddy Johnson and Neil Wood.

City have only won once since Cork was appointed and have lost three consecutive matches, but they will go into the game knowing that with Arsenal having a Champions League game against Bayern Munich on Wednesday, the North Londoners are not as strong as the team which thrashed City 4-0 at Barnet earlier in the season.

They still have a few useful players in keeper Stuart Taylor, Sebastian Larsson, Jeremie and Arturo Lupoli.

The game kicks off at 7pm.

Coventry City: Jonathan Tuffey, Andrew Whing, Andy Hall, Isaac Osbourne, Mark Howard, Sean Cooney, Andy Morrell, Craig Pead, Eddie Johnson, Graham Barrett, Neil Wood, Craig Reid, Rikki Bains, Stuart Wall, Liam Davis, Liam Nicell.

Stuart Taylor, Sean Kelly, Kerrea Gilbert, Emmanuel Eboue, Mitchell Murphy, Sebastian Larsson, Stephen O'Donnell, Fabrice Muamba, Ryan Smith, Arturo Lupoli, Jeremie Aliadiere SUBS Luke Webb, Michael Jordan, Ben Gill, Issa Kadir, Anthony Stokes