🔎 MansionBet Match Preview: Coventry City (A)

🔴 OURSELVES

City go into the game looking to bounce back from the 3-0 midweek defeat at Birmingham City.

Manager Nigel Pearson may be able to select Tommy Conway and Joe Williams who have returned to training this week. However, the Robins will be without Nathan Baker, recovering suffering a concussion against West Bromwich, while Robbie Cundy, Andy King, and Antoine Semenyo are still on the way back from injury. Matty James is continuing to be assessed after coming off injured against Birmingham City.

Pearson says City will have to ‘be at their best’, telling Robins TV: “Tuesday night (at Birmingham) was a game that was there to be won in all honesty. Instead, we came away with the same result as we did at West Brom, although they were different types of games. It was a lesson. When we take to the field against Coventry we have got to be at our best – it’s as simple as that.”

🔵 OUR OPPONENTS

Coventry have started the season well and sit in fourth place in the SkyBet Championship table as they relish being back in the city following their exile in Birmingham, and before that Northampton.

The Sky Blues have gaining 27 points from their opening 16 games of the campaign and demonstrated a level of consistency, particularly at home, that has catapulted them into the play-off picture.

The feel-good factor at the Coventry Building Society Arena has been quelled by a dip in form in recent week after winning one of their last five games.

In midweek they lost 2-1 to visiting Swansea City after two early goals from Jamie Paterson and Joe Piroe.

📝 PROFILE

Formed: 1883

Stadium: Coventry Building Society Arena

Nickname: The Sky Blues

Manager: Mark Robins

Finish last season: 16th, Championship


HONOURS

• League One Champions 2019-20



• Division Two Champions 1966-67
• Division Three Champions 1963-64


• Division Three (South) Champions 1935-36, Runners Up 1933-34


• Division Four Runners-Up 1958-5
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League Two Play-Off Winners 2017-18

• FA Cup Winners 1987


• Football League Trophy Winners 2016-17 

📍 MATCH DETAILS 

Where: Coventry Building Society Arena
When: Saturday, November 6^th (3pm)
Competition: SkyBet Championship

Referee: Jeremey Simpson
Assistant Referee: Lee Venamore
Assistant Referee: Natalie Aspinall
Fourth Official: Geoff Eltringham