Blues unchanged against Coventry City

Southend United Manager Phil Brown has named an unchanged side to face Coventry City at Roots Hall this afternoon.

Coventry City are without top scorer Adam Armstrong and former loanee Jacob Murphy for this fixture, Noel's brother Stephen is making his debut for the Sky Blues.

Southend XI | Bentley, Hendrie, Bolger, Thompson, Barrett, O'Neill, Deegan, Leonard, Atkinson, Payne, Barnett (subs) T.Smith, White, Timlin, Mooney, Hunt, McQueen, Kamara

Coventry XI | Charles-Cook, Stokes, Vincelot, O'Brien, Cole, Ricketts, Bigirimina, Tudgay, Ramage, Hunt, Haynes (subs) Burge, Lameiras, Maddison, Lorentzson, Philips, Antoine-Fortune, Rose