Nottingham Forest will be gunning to make it two wins out of two for the first time this season when they meet Coventry at The Ricoh Arena on Saturday (kick-off 3pm).

The Reds boosted their Championship survival hopes with a 1-0 win over Barnsley in a nervy encounter at The City Ground last Saturday.

It represented only their third win of the campaign but, significantly, Colin Calderwood's men have now kept two successive clean sheets and have a much more solid look about them.

Coventry's recent fortunes have certainly been mixed with a win at Sheffield Wednesday followed by a home draw against Swansea and then a 3-1 defeat at Reading on Monday.

Team news

The fitness of Chris Cohen is the main talking point ahead of the trip to Coventry.

The midfielder has missed the last two games with an ankle injury but there are hopes he may be declared fit to return at The Ricoh Arena.

Colin Calderwood, who will be without the suspended Nathan Tyson, must decide whether to recall Julian Bennett to his squad after he made a successful comeback from a broken collarbone earlier this week.

Bennett, who has missed eight first team games, played for 90 minutes of a behind-closed-doors reserve friendly against Leicester.

Coventry, meanwhile, have been rocked by the news they will be without their captain Scott Dann for six weeks due to a shoulder injury. Ben Turner is likely to deputise for him.

They already have a crisis at right back with Stephen Wright and Isaac Osbourne ruled out, while left Danny Fox misses the game through suspension.

He played for both

Ian Wallace forged such a prolific goal-scoring partnership with Mick Ferguson at Highfield Road that Brian Clough paid a then club record £1.2million to take him to The City Ground.

That was in the summer of 1980 as the master manager set about rebuilding his side following Forest's second European Cup triumph.

The flame-haired diminutive striker scored 47 goals in 157 starts for The Reds and topped their scoring charts for three successive seasons.

He joined French club Brest in the summer of 1984 but returned to England a year later to play for Sunderland.

Head to head

Forest have recorded 40 league and cup victories over Coventry, compared to the Sky Blues' 17 wins. Twenty seven games between the two sides have finished deadlocked.

It was Coventry who had the better of things in their last meeting, at Highfield Road in April 2005.

A 2-0 defeat did little to help what would prove to be a fruitless battle against relegation for The Reds.

Gary McSheffrey penalty and a Dele Adebola strike sent Forest tumbling to their first defeat in five games, which left them five points adrift of safety with six games remaining.

It could have been a whole lot worse for Gary Megson's men as goalkeeper Paul Gerrard kept Coventry at bay with a string of fine saves.

Forest, on the other, struggled to create any goal-scoring opportunities and it wasn't until 10 minutes from time that they managed their first shot on target.

There was an air of controversy about Coventry's 23rd minute opener as referee Andy D'Urso awarded the home side a penalty after adjudging that Gareth Taylor had handled in the area.

McSheffrey made the most of the opportunity to score from the spot and things went from bad to worse for Forest four minutes before the interval when Adebola scored a superb solo goal.

Gerrard may not have stood much chance with either goal but he produced excellent second half saves to frustrate McSheffrey.

Skipper Taylor came close to pulling a goal back in the dying seconds when he headed against the bar from a Kris Commons corner.

Coventry: Steele, Duffy, Page, Staunton, Hall, McSheffrey, Doyle, Hughes (Osbourne 85), Dyer (Whing 85), Adebola, Goater (Benjamin 72). Subs not used: Pressman, John.

Forest: Gerrard, Morgan, Melville, Doig, Louis-Jean, Commons, Powell (Gardner 57), Perch, Robertson (Bopp 51), Dobie, Taylor. Subs not used: Doyle, Thompson, Harris.

Where they currently stand

Forest - 23rd

Coventry - 17th