📊 Form Guide

Coventry City

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Coventry City will be hoping to bounce back here after a 1-2 Championship losing effort in their last game against Ipswich Town.

In that game, Coventry City had 62% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Coventry City was Haji Wright (64'). For their opponents, Ipswich Town had 14 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Kieffer Moore (8') and Cameron Burgess (69') scored for Ipswich Town.

Matches involving Coventry City have often been engaging affairs recently with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games alone, a total of 20 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 8 of these accredited to Coventry City. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily follow through into this next game, of course.

Coming into this clash, Coventry City have not lost a league tie with Queens Park Rangers in their previous 3 matches.

Queens Park Rangers

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QPR head into the match following a 4-0 Championship win versus Leeds United in their previous outing.

In that match, Queens Park Rangers managed 39% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Queens Park Rangers, the scorers were Ilias Chair (8'), Lucas Andersen (22'), Lyndon Dykes (73') and Sam Field (86'). On the other side, Leeds United got 15 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

The trend of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Queens Park Rangers has been noticeable of late. Checking on their last six outings reveals that it’s occurred 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 6 while Queens Park Rangers have scored 7.

Ahead of this meeting, Queens Park Rangers are without an away win for the past 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 02/04/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with Coventry City winning 3 of those games, QPR 3 and 0 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 9 from The Sky Blues and 8 coming from The R's. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

The previous league match between these sides was Championship match day 9 on 30/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Queens Park Rangers 1-3 Coventry City.

That time, Queens Park Rangers managed 52% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Kenneth Paal (90').

Coventry City got 15 shots on goal with 6 on target. Ellis Simms (56', 68') and Josh Eccles (60') scored.

The referee was Tom Nield.

🗞️ Team News: Coventry City

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Coventry City gaffer Mark Robins to contend with due to a largely intact group of players. Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (Back injury) will miss out.

It’s our opinion that The Sky Blues should make use of the 4-4-1-1 system for this game featuring Bradley Collins, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Luis Binks, Jake Bidwell, Josh Eccles, Liam Kelly, Ben Sheaf, Haji Wright, Ellis Simms and Callum O'Hare.

ℹ️ Team News: QPR

With a completely injury-free group ready to go, the QPR boss Martí Cifuentes has no fitness worries to report before this match.

From our viewpoint, The R's appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Joe Walsh, Reggie Cannon, Steve Cook, Morgan Fox, Kenneth Paal, Chris Willock, Isaac Hayden, Lucas Andersen, Elijah Dixon-Bonner, Ilias Chair and Lyndon Dykes.

✨ Prediction

When taking everything into account, Queens Park Rangers will have to work hard as a team to be putting a goal past this Coventry City side who will likely end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

That’s why we have predicted a hard-fought 1-0 victory for Coventry City at the conclusion of the game.

We’ll see what happens.

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Lucas Pereira, 11:08 04/05/2024