The tension continues to build for the huge Championship Play-offs semi-final face-off between Sunderland and Coventry City on Tuesday. Given that they’ve both made it to this stage, and with the reward for the winners of the match being a coveted place in the final, this really should be a great game.
View all of the Sunderland v Coventry City predictions, poll and stats below - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Form Guide
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Sunderland
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Sunderland fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 1-2 Championship Play-offs victory against Coventry City.
In that match, Sunderland managed 25% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Sunderland, the goals were scored by Wilson Isidor (68') and Eliezer Mayenda (88'). Coventry City got 14 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Jack Rudoni (70') was the scorer for Coventry City.
Sunderland have been quite ineffective in attack in recent times. Their sum of goals equals just 3 vs opponents over their last six fixtures. In those meetings, Sunderland have also seen the number of goals against them total 8. We will find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.
Coventry City
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In the course of their six latest matches, Frank Lampard's Coventry City have had reason to celebrate scoring 7 times, yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.
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Head to head
Inspecting their past head to head clashes going back to 25/02/2023 shows that Sunderland have won 1 of these & Coventry City 3, with the number of drawn games being 2.
An aggregate of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 5 of them from The Black Cats and 11 created by The Sky Blues. The average goals per game has been 2.67.
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Team News: Sunderland
Aji Alese (Broken leg), Daniel Ballard (Hamstring injury) and Niall Huggins (Knee surgery) are not available for Sunderland boss Régis Le Bris.
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Team News: Coventry City
Thanks to a mainly full-strength group, there is just a single fitness problem for the Coventry City boss Frank Lampard to be concerned about. Ben Wilson (Knee injury) won’t be playing here.
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Prediction
When taking everything into account, Coventry City may find it difficult to find the net against this Sunderland side who should get the vital goal that wins it.
We therefore think that it’s going to be a good battle with a 1-0 winning margin for Sunderland at the end of the 90 minutes.
We’ll see what happens.
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⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?
Looking at the betting prices for the match on the win-draw-win market, a win for Sunderland can be had for 2.1, a wager on a draw is 3.4 & staking on victory for Coventry City gets you 3.4. Those are the best of the bets that can be secured right now.
Victor Martins,
20:00 10/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Sunderland
Formed: 1879
Stadium: Stadium of Light (49,000)
Captain: Dan Neil
Chairman: Kyril Louis-Dreyfus
Manager: Régis Le Bris
Competitions: Championship position 4, Championship Play-offs (Semi-Finals)
⭐ Star Player: Wilson Isidor
Regularly taking up the Striker position, Wilson Isidor was born in Rennes, France. After having made a senior debut playing for Monaco in the 2018 - 2019 season, the accomplished Forward has netted 12 league goals in the Championship 2024 - 2025 season so far in 43 appearances.