📊 Form Guide

Derby County

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Derby County, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 2-1 Championship triumph over Blackburn Rovers.

In that game, Derby County had 31% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 on target. For Derby County, the scorers were Craig Forsyth (3') and Ebou Adams (7'). On the other side, Blackburn Rovers got 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Makhtar Gueye (40') was the scorer for Blackburn Rovers.

Derby County have not been in good attacking form in more recent games. Their goals record stands at just 3 vs opponents during the course of their last 6 outings. In those meetings, Derby County have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 8.

Coming into this fixture, Derby County are unbeaten in the league by Coventry City in their previous 3 games.

Coventry City

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Coventry City will come into the meeting following a 3-2 Championship win in the defeat of Stoke City in their last fixture.

In that match, Coventry City had 57% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. For Coventry City, the goals were scored by Victor Torp (22', 31') and Bobby Thomas (97'). Stoke City got 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Sam Gallagher (65', 86') scored for Stoke City.

Looking at their form, and Coventry City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals in all. Defensively, Coventry City can certainly do much better. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen whether that trend might be maintained here in this game or not.

Pre-game facts show that Coventry City:

• have left without a victory over Derby County when they've played them away from home in the last 9 matches in the league. It has been a terrible run on the road.
• haven't been beaten by Derby County in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 01/12/2020 tells us that Derby County have won 1 of these and Coventry City 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

A combined total of 11 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 5 from The Rams and 6 netted by The Sky Blues. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Championship match day 14 on 06/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Coventry City 1-2 Derby County.

In that game, Coventry City had 70% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorers were Bobby Thomas (73' Own goal) and Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (77').

For their opponents, Derby County had 3 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Jerry Yates (11') was the scorer.

The referee was Sam Allison.

🗞️ Team News: Derby County

Curtis Nelson (Torn knee ligaments), Nathaniel Méndez-Laing (Knock), Corey Blackett-Taylor (Hamstring injury), Lars-Jørgen Salvesen (Cruciate ligament tear), Kane Wilson (Hamstring injury), Dajaune Brown (Hamstring injury) and David Ozoh (Torn thigh muscle) are unavailable for Derby County gaffer John Eustace.

📋 Team News: Coventry City

Coventry City manager Frank Lampard has multiple availability issues to deal with. Ben Wilson (Knee injury), Haji Wright (Ankle injury) and Raphael Borges Rodrigues (muscular problems) won’t be making appearances.

🔮 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Derby County will really need to work well to break down this Coventry City team who we think should be able to grind out a win.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 0-1 winning margin for Coventry City when all is said and done.

Hoping for a good game.

Lucas Pereira, 19:04 11/03/2025