Derby County welcome Birmingham City to Pride Park in one of three lunchtime kick-offs in the Championship.
It's a fixture that feels like must-win territory for both managers with John Eustace's Rams and Chris Davies' Blues tallying just one league win each so far in this Championship campaign.
However, while Derby have suffered four defeats from their opening six, Birmingham have been held in four of their matches to start the season and the second city outfit have been left to rue a multitude of missed chances in the last 10 days against Southampton, Wolves and Norwich City.
Derby have yet to find much comfort at home this season and after coming from behind twice to claim a draw against Cardiff City, the Rams have been beaten by Swansea City and 10-man West Brom in the East Midlands.
Eustace has decided to make three changes to the starting XI that was defeated by West Brom in midweek with striker Carlton Morris returning to the team.
Joe Ward replaces former Birmingham defender Dion Sanderson at right-back, while Henrik Meister makes his first home start in place of Alex Mowatt.
Mohammed Fuseini starts against the club he was supposed to sign for on deadline day as the Union Saint-Gilloise winger was set for a move to Birmingham before Derby snapped him up on loan.
As for the visitors, Davies makes two changes from the side that was beaten by Norwich City with Alex Cochrane returning at left-back in place of Kristoffer Lund.
Jhon Solis missed the previous two fixtures with injury, but the Colombian is back in the middle of the park alongside Tomoki Iwata as Paik Seung-ho drops to the bench.
Derby County XI
Widell Zetterstrom; Ward, Langas, Cashin, Taylor; Clark, Ozoh; Szmodics, Meister, Fuseini; Morris.
Substitutes: Vickers, Salvesen, Mowatt, Johnston, Nyambe, Hedges, Sanderson, Fraulo, Blackett-Taylor.
Birmingham City XI
Beadle; Osayi-Samuel, Neumann, Klarer, Cochrane; Iwata, Solis; Vicente, Stansfield, Millar; Priske.
Substitutes: Allsop, Fry, Laird, Buchanan, Lund, Kanya, Paik, Ducksch, Vazquez.
