COVENTRY City goalkeeper Keiren Westwood said he was glad to back among familiar faces after returning from international duty with the Republic of Ireland.

The shotstopper was named in Giovanni Trapattoni's squad for Ireland's European Championship qualifying wins over Armenia and Andorra but he said he wanted to now concentrate on doing well for the Sky Blues.

"You do well for your club and the international thing will hopefully take care of itself so yeah I'm looking forward to the weekend," he said.

"It's been very good so far, obviously the result last week against Millwall wasn't ideal but we've started really well and we deserve to be where we are."

Westwood, who recently became a father for the first time, also said it was nice to be back in the dressing room at Ryton where he got questions about his international trip from the Sky Blues' Irish contingent.

"It's nice to join in in the dressing room and that and the banters always flying about.

"I've been getting a lot of questions because there's a lot of Irish boys in there as well so they want to know how it went and 'we did alright' and stuff like that but all in good jest and onwards and upwards."

Turning his attentions to Saturdays' M69 derby clash with Leicester at the Ricoh Arena, Westwood also said he was looking forward to a big derby atmosphere.

"Of course, you know it's a big game and I'm sure Leicester will bring a few fans down add to the atmosphere.

"You know that our fans get right behind us anyway and the Portsmouth game and the Derby game there weren't as many at the Derby game but when Ben scored that header the whole place erupted and it felt like there was 30,000 in there which is always brilliant.

"Of course you want your team to get behind you and support you no matter what and you know I'm no different and the team's no different."

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