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Coventry City

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Coventry City will be looking for a repeat result of the 1-3 Championship success vs Huddersfield Town.

In that match, Coventry City had 55% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 7 on target. For Coventry City, the goals were scored by Ellis Simms (16', 22') and Haji Wright (94'). At the other end, Huddersfield Town had 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. Rhys Healey (79') scored for Huddersfield Town.

At least three goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Coventry City have been involved. Opposing sides scored 5 of them in this period while Coventry City amassed a tally of 16. Despite that, we will just have to wait and see whether that pattern might continue on here in this game or not.

Coming into this contest, Coventry City have not registered a win against Cardiff City in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Cardiff City

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Sunderland in Championship competition, Cardiff City will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Cardiff City managed 56% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Sunderland got 18 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Adil Aouchiche (12') and Jobe Bellingham (27') scored for Sunderland.

A run of reliable showings from the Cardiff City defensive players has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their last 6 clashes overall. In that period, their own forwards have managed to score 6.

Coming into this clash, Cardiff City have not won against Coventry City when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/02/2021 shows us that Coventry City have won 2 of these and Cardiff City 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

In all, 13 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 from The Sky Blues and 8 coming from The Bluebirds. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league contest featuring the two was Championship match day 7 on 19/09/2023 when it finished Cardiff City 3-2 Coventry City.

That time, Cardiff City had 36% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Goals were scored by Dimitris Goutas (8'), Karlan Ahearne-Grant (61') and Kion Etete (84').

On the other side, Coventry City got 7 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Matt Godden (35', 96') scored.

The match was refereed by Sam Allison.

ℹ️ Team News: Coventry City

Looking at personnel, there is just the lone fitness concern for the Coventry City boss Mark Robins to be concerned with due to a largely intact set of players. Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (Back injury) won’t play.

📋 Team News: Cardiff City

Cardiff City boss Erol Bulut has to choose a team with limited availability. Mark McGuinness (unknown injury) and Callum Robinson (unknown injury) won’t be making appearances.

⚡ Prediction

Our thinking is that Coventry City are likely to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Cardiff City are also probably going to find it difficult to score but we do fancy them converting at least once here.

We’re therefore expecting to see a comfortable 3-1 winning score for Coventry City when all’s said and done.

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

Andre Moura, 13:04 01/04/2024