Cotterill bans talk of Man Utd despite Mourinho's team awaiting winners of FA Cup replay

Birmingham boss Steve Cotterill dismissed any thoughts about facing Manchester United ahead of Blues' FA Cup replay with Huddersfield.

They host the Terriers on Tuesday in the fourth-round tie with the winners welcoming United on February 17.

Birmingham drew 1-1 at Premier League Huddersfield last month and have won their last two Sky Bet Championship games to lift themselves out of the relegation zone.

But, despite the carrot of facing Jose Mourinho's side, Cotterill is fully focused on Huddersfield.

He said: 'Everybody knows about it but we won't be talking about it. We will give full respect to Huddersfield.

'I'm sure it's what everyone will talk about but we're not at that point. Huddersfield will have our undivided attention first.

'Going into a cup tie against a team in a higher division there isn't a lot of pressure on us. We feel we should have won it anyway. We felt disappointed we didn't nick a winner.

'We've been doing well and don't get me wrong, if we were going to get 46 games like the last two then we'd accept that by a country mile. It's far from perfect but I'm a bit of a perfectionist.'

Jonathan Grounds (knee) is out while Jacques Maghoma (groin) remains a doubt after missing Saturday's 3-1 win at Sheffield Wednesday.