Follow live coverage as Derby County face Coventry City in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season.

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.

Latest Derby County news from DerbyshireLive brings you full coverage of the Championship clash as the Rams look to secure another priceless three-point haul

By sinking his old team at Pride Park, Eustace ended a dampening winless run for Derby stretching all the way back to a Boxing Day success over West Bromwich Albion, since when they had gone an unlucky 13 games without victory, losing 11 of them.

Derby boosted their hopes of Championship survival after goals from Matt Clarke and Marcus Harness saw them beat in-form Coventry at a raucous Pride Park. Clarke opened the scoring against the run of play after latching on to a Harness cross from the right after 23 minutes.