Birmingham will be without five senior players for the visit of manager Steve Bruce’s former club Manchester United to St Andrews tomorrow.
Muzzy Izzet, Stephen Clemence, Stan Lazaridis, long-term injury victim Mikael Forssell and Clinton Morrison are all ruled out to leave Bruce with only 17 players.
Morrison will undergo a cartilage operation on Monday and is expected to be sidelined for a month with the injury suffered on World Cup duty for the Republic Of Ireland.
Provisional squad: Maik Taylor, Melchiot, Tebily, Clapham, Gray, Upson, Cunningham, Martin Taylor, Johnson, Savage, Dunn, Gronkjaer, Anderton, Yorke, Heskey, Kilkenny, Bennett.