The wait is nearly over for the massive Championship Play-offs semi-final showdown 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 date with the final, it really does promise to be a great game.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Sunderland v Coventry City game (plus the best game odds).
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Form Guide
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Sunderland
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Sunderland, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 Championship Play-offs victory vs Coventry City.
In that match, Sunderland managed 25% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Sunderland, the goalscorers were Wilson Isidor (68') and Eliezer Mayenda (88'). For their opponents, Coventry City got 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Jack Rudoni (70') scored 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
A review of their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 25/02/2023 tells us that Sunderland have won 1 of these and Coventry City 3, with the tally of draws being 2.
A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 5 for The Black Cats and 11 coming from The Sky Blues. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.
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Team News: Sunderland
Aji Alese (Broken leg), Daniel Ballard (Hamstring injury) and Niall Huggins (Knee surgery) won’t be able to feature for Sunderland gaffer Régis Le Bris.
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Team News: Coventry City
From a largely healthy group, there is just the lone fitness worry for the Coventry City manager Frank Lampard to contend with. Ben Wilson (Knee injury) won’t be in action.
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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,
03:00 11/05/2025
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.