Pick of the stats: Derby County v Coventry City
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Derby County welcome Coventry City on Tuesday night (19:45 GMT) for a meeting between two sides with different ambitions at each end of the Championship table.
The Rams are desperately battling to stay up and are four points adrift of safety in 22nd after ending a 12-game winless run with a 2-1 victory over Blackburn on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Sky Blues are the form team in the division, winning nine of their past 10 games to lift themselves to fifth and three points ahead of Bristol City in seventh as they push for a play-off berth.
After winning the reverse fixture 2-1 in November, Derby County will be looking to record a first league double over Coventry City since the 2009-10 season.
Coventry City have failed to win any of their past nine away league games against Derby County (D6 L3), since a 3-1 victory in October 2003.
Derby are winless in their previous three midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) league games (D1 L2), failing to score in both of the previous two.
Coventry have won each of their past four away league games; only in December 2012 in the third tier have the Sky Blues enjoyed a longer winning run on their travels in the EFL (six games).
Coventry have only lost two of their past 18 away league games against newly promoted opposition (W11 D5), a 2-1 defeat at Ipswich last season and 4-1 loss to Portsmouth this term.