Coventry City vs Brentford Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Coventry City

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Coventry City will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 0-2 Championship losing effort in their last game against Norwich City.

In that match, Coventry City had 32% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For their opponents, Norwich City got 12 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Teemu Pukki (28') and Emiliano Buendía (45') scored for Norwich City.

Over their last 6 fixtures, Mark Robins's Coventry City have scored 5 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 0.83.

Heading into this contest, Coventry City have not won at home in their last 3 matches in the league.

Brentford

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Queens Park Rangers in Championship competition, Brentford and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Brentford managed 46% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Brentford was Ivan Toney (30'). Queens Park Rangers got 9 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Sam Field (72') and Charlie Austin (76') scored for Queens Park Rangers.

In as many as 5 of the previous 6 games featuring Brentford, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is 4.67, with the average number of goals for Brentford standing at 3. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, though.

👥 Head to head

The previous league clash between the two was Championship match day 5 on 17/10/2020 which ended up with the score at Brentford 2-0 Coventry City.

That time, Brentford had 55% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player to score was Ivan Toney (46', 55').

Coventry City got 10 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

The match was refereed by Andy Woolmer.

📋 Team News: Coventry City

Tyler Walker (Hip Injury) and Jodi Jones (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) will be missing for Coventry gaffer Mark Robins.

📰 Team News: Brentford

From a largely healthy group of players, there is only a single fitness problem for the Brentford boss Thomas Frank to be concerned with. Shandon Baptiste (Knee Surgery) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

Here is a game where Coventry City will really need to work well to get anything against this Brentford side who we think will just have the edge.

We’re going for a highly competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Brentford at the end of the 90.

We’ll see what happens.

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Peter Guest, 00:13 16/02/2021