📊 Form Guide

Coventry City

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Coventry City will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 4-0 Championship triumph against Plymouth Argyle.

In that match, Coventry City had 65% possession and 19 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. For Coventry City, the scorers were Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (5'), Josh Eccles (20', 45') and Ephron Mason-Clark (39'). On the other side, Plymouth Argyle had 5 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

It has not been often in recent games that Coventry City haven’t conceded. The reality is that Coventry City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 11 goals on the way.

Analysis of their past results shows that Coventry City:

• have not lost a league tie with Millwall in their last 4 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 home league matches.

Millwall

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After being beaten in their last game against Norwich City in Championship competition, Millwall and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Millwall managed 32% possession and 8 shots at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Millwall was Romain Esse (65'). Norwich City had 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Emiliano Marcondes (4') and Oscar Schwartau (39') scored for Norwich City.

Over the course of 6 of the prior six clashes featuring Millwall, a relatively low number of goals have gone in between them and opposing teams. The overall average number of goals per game during that period is a meagre 1.33, with the number of goals averaged by The Lions standing at 0.5. Regardless, time will tell whether the trend might continue on in this game or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Millwall:

• are winless against Coventry City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 4 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes dating back to 29/12/2021 shows that Coventry City have won 4 of these and Millwall 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from The Sky Blues and 5 for The Lions. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league meeting between the two was Championship match day 19 on 07/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Millwall 0-1 Coventry City.

On that day, Millwall had 37% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

On the other side, Coventry City got 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Ephron Mason-Clark (63') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Thomas Bramall.

ℹ️ Team News: Coventry City

Ben Wilson (Knee injury) and Raphael Borges Rodrigues (muscular problems) won’t be playing for Coventry City boss Frank Lampard.

We think that The Sky Blues will probably line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for this game, utilising Oliver Dovin, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Joel Latibeaudiere, Jake Bidwell, Josh Eccles, Ben Sheaf, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Jack Rudoni, Ephron Mason-Clark and Norman Bassette.

ℹ️ Team News: Millwall

We believe The Lions appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system using Lukas Jensen, Ryan Leonard, Japhet Tanganga, Murray Wallace, Joe Bryan, Casper De Norre, George Saville, Femi Azeez, Romain Esse, Duncan Watmore and Mihailo Ivanovic.

✨ Prediction

We feel that Coventry City are likely to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

In contrast, Millwall will be up against it getting on the scoresheet but we do fancy them hitting back at some stage.

We’re tipping a pretty comfortable 3-1 margin for Coventry City by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 14:00 29/12/2024