Craig Bellamy has been ruled out of the League Cup tie on Tuesday night.
The West Ham striker who is hated amongst City supporters for his comments when he left the Sky Blues in 2001. suffered a recurrence of an abdominal injury during the first half of West Ham's 0-0 draw at Portsmouth yesterday.
Bellamy Out Of League Cup Tie
"Craig's injury is not too bad but there's still something niggling there," said Hammers boss Alan Curbishley.
He won't be playing Tuesday at Coventry. He has had this abdominal strain through the pre-season and despite the operation which we went off to have in Germany it has come back again.
He won't be playing Tuesday at Coventry. He has had this abdominal strain through the pre-season and despite the operation which we went off to have in Germany it has come back again.
"We are not very lucky with injuries at the moment. There's Dean Ashton, Bobby Zamora, Scott Parker, Julien Fauberdt, Freddie Ljungberg all out. Now Bellamy. "He could be weeks out or it could be something that can be sorted out quickly."