Cup clash gives Sky Blues a swift chance to ring changes and rest stars struggling for fitness

COVENTRY City have a quick turnaround after their opening season fixture against Hull, welcoming Luton Town to the CBS Arena tonight in the Carabao Cup.

- By ANDY TURNER

The game is likely to be used to get important match minutes into players who missed out in the Sky Blues’ goalless draw with the Tigers, but Frank Lampard will also be keen to rest a number of his personnel who are recovering from knocks and niggles picked up over the preseason programme.

Those include the likes of Jack Rudoni and Ephron Mason-Clark - both of whom had been nursing injury issues in the buildup to Saturday's Championship curtain raiser - while City were hit with a fresh blow when skipper Ben Sheaf was forced off at the weekend after just seven minutes of going on as a late sub.

Rudoni suffered a minor calf strain ahead of the previous week's friendly against St Pauli and sat that one out. Lampard revealed post-match that the talisman midfielder is still not quite up to speed, revealing: “If you look at Rudi, who always looks dangerous, but he missed some days training recently and missed the last game”