Coventry City vs Blackburn Rovers: Match guide and preview

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: England Championship
Competition: Wed 04.Oct
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena (32609 seats)

Get ready for Championship and Coventry City - Blackburn Rovers. In this article you'll get numbers, previous results, data, trends and news!

Insights:
  • Coventry City have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Championship
  • Blackburn Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

W D L D D

Coventry City form and stats

The story so far in the Championship for Coventry City at their home stadium (The Coventry Building Society Arena) is 1 win, 3 draws and 0 defeats. Three draws from their last three home games means a steady supply of points here at The Coventry Building Society Arena, but a victory now would be sweet for Coventry.

A strong away win for Coventry City against Queens Park Rangers the last match, as Eccles and Simms (2) were on target. What a relief, as that was the first league victory after failing to win six consecutive fixtures. Attacking player Simms bested all teammates in that fixture and managed a match rating of 8.33 out of 10. Simms scored two goals.

In the match before that, Coventry City hosted Huddersfield Town and drew the game 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Coventry handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats.

Goals from both sides! That has been the case in 5 league games in a row for this team. Could it happen again?

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Championship game versus Norwich City in only three days. This game is also played here at The Coventry Building Society Arena.

The Coventry City fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 7 goals in 4 league matches.

L W L L W

Blackburn Rovers form and stats

1-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Blackburn Rovers in their Championship matches away. It's a growing despair in Blackburn as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

The manager Tomasson was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium Ewood Park (Blackburn). Blackburn Rovers suffered a 1-4 loss to Leicester City (placed 1st). Szmodics, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.04. Szmodics scored one goal and had 27 successful passes (of 30 total).

Before that one, the victory at home hosting Cardiff City in the Carabao Cup (5-2). Blackburn Rovers are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 9 matches.

Goals galore? This club have played 5 consecutive league matches all having at least three goals (over 2.5 goals).

Blackburn have another fixture away from home in just three days, a Championship fixture against Queens Park Rangers. A demanding itinerary for the guests!

Blackburn Rovers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 6 times in 4 away games so far. For Blackburn Rovers, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Coventry have managed a streak of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (1-4-0) when playing Blackburn Rovers.

Top Goalscorers

Blackburn RoversS. Szmodics
S. Szmodics
6 goals
Coventry CityM. Godden
M. Godden
5 goals
Coventry CityE. Simms
E. Simms
2 goals

Coventry City missing players

Blackburn Rovers missing players

Coventry City Blackburn Rovers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 3 Played P 1 4 9
2 1 1 Won W 0 1 3
5 3 2 Drew D 0 1 1
2 0 0 Lost L 1 2 5
15 7 7 Scored S 0 6 13
12 4 4 Conceded C 3 9 20
89% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 89%
56% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 75% 89%
33% 25% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 44%
22% 25% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 22%
78% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 78%
22% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 11%
11% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 11%
 
6.6 7.5 8.7 Corners for (avg) C F 9 6.8 5.8
5.3 6 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 9 8 7
2.2 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13 14 13 Shots (avg) S ( 20 14 14.9
4.4 5.2 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.5 4.9
38% 33% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 30%
 
13.1 13.2 12.7 Shots against (avg) S A 23 21.2 18.1
3.7 3.2 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 9 6.8 5.6
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Blackburn Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Coventry City have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Coventry City have the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leicester City 9 8 0 1 18 6 4 3 0 1 5 3 5 5 0 0 13 3 12 24
2 Ipswich Town 9 7 1 1 18 11 4 3 0 1 12 9 5 4 1 0 6 2 7 22
3 Preston North End 9 6 2 1 13 10 5 4 0 1 8 8 4 2 2 0 5 2 3 20
4 Sunderland 9 5 1 3 18 8 4 2 0 2 8 4 5 3 1 1 10 4 10 16
5 Hull City 9 4 4 1 14 9 5 1 4 0 7 5 4 3 0 1 7 4 5 16
6 Cardiff City 9 5 1 3 16 12 5 4 0 1 10 5 4 1 1 2 6 7 4 16
7 Norwich City 9 5 1 3 19 16 5 4 0 1 8 4 4 1 1 2 11 12 3 16
8 West Bromwich Albion 9 3 4 2 16 11 4 2 1 1 8 6 5 1 3 1 8 5 5 13
9 Leeds United 9 3 4 2 14 10 4 1 3 0 6 3 5 2 1 2 8 7 4 13
10 Southampton 9 4 1 4 15 20 5 2 1 2 10 11 4 2 0 2 5 9 -5 13
11 Bristol City 9 3 3 3 11 10 5 1 2 2 7 7 4 2 1 1 4 3 1 12
12 Birmingham City 9 3 3 3 8 9 4 2 2 0 4 2 5 1 1 3 4 7 -1 12
13 Plymouth Argyle 9 3 2 4 17 14 4 3 0 1 13 5 5 0 2 3 4 9 3 11
14 Coventry City 9 2 5 2 15 12 4 1 3 0 7 4 5 1 2 2 8 8 3 11
15 Millwall 9 3 2 4 7 11 5 2 0 3 4 7 4 1 2 1 3 4 -4 11
16 Stoke City 9 3 1 5 11 14 4 2 0 2 6 6 5 1 1 3 5 8 -3 10
17 Huddersfield Town 9 2 4 3 10 14 5 1 2 2 5 8 4 1 2 1 5 6 -4 10
18 Blackburn Rovers 9 3 1 5 13 20 5 2 0 3 7 11 4 1 1 2 6 9 -7 10
19 Swansea City 9 2 3 4 13 12 4 1 2 1 6 4 5 1 1 3 7 8 1 9
20 Watford 9 2 3 4 13 13 6 2 2 2 10 6 3 0 1 2 3 7 0 9
21 Middlesbrough 9 2 2 5 10 17 4 1 1 2 3 5 5 1 1 3 7 12 -7 8
22 Queens Park Rangers 9 2 2 5 8 15 4 0 1 3 3 8 5 2 1 2 5 7 -7 8
23 Rotherham United 9 1 2 6 8 19 4 1 2 1 6 6 5 0 0 5 2 13 -11 5
24 Sheffield Wednesday 9 0 2 7 5 17 5 0 1 4 2 8 4 0 1 3 3 9 -12 2

Coventry City:
Blackburn Rovers:
Championship:
England:

Read more about Championship

The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.