National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Coventry City or Bristol City that keep their silverware dream alive.
Bristol City could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Championship game only four sleeps ago.
Coventry City form and stats
Coventry participated in Carabao Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.The home team returns to Pirelli Stadium after drawing with Sunderland on their last time out; the game ended 1-1. The attacking player Gyökeres was announced as "man of the match" for Coventry City with a rating of 7.71/10. Gyökeres scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 6 of 9 times.
A 1-1 draw away in the Championship before that, with Stoke City the opponent.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Coventry have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 3 and lost 3.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Coventry City as they are travelling to their away game against Millwall in the Championship. That match is three days after this one.
Bristol City form and stats
Bristol City's mission in Carabao Cup last season failed in the 1st round.As the visiting team in Championship matches, Bristol City have produced an overall stat of 0-0-1 so far.
Home advantage was not enough for Bristol City in their previous game as they lost hosting Sunderland, 2-3. Attacker Weimann got a player rating of 7.93 in the game. "Man of the match" Weimann scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.
Prior to that match, the Bristol manager Pearson faced defeat when travelling to Hull City and losing 1-2.Bristol City 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, 3 draws and 9 defeats. From a total of 16 matches.
Bristol City have another match away in just three days, a Championship game against Wigan Athletic. A grim programme for them!
It's early days yet, but Bristol City has scored 1 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Previous ten meetings featuring these teams: Coventry won five, Bristol City triumphed in four and we saw one draw. eight games with more than 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Weimann 2 goals |   V. Gyökeres 1 goals |  C. Martin 1 goals |
Coventry City missing players
Bristol City missing players
| Coventry City | Bristol City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 3 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 39 | 10 | Scored | S | 12 | 36 | ||
| 30 | 12 | Conceded | C | 18 | 34 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 44% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 22% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 22% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 16% | ||
| 5.8 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 3.6 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.4 | 6.9 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13.8 | 15.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 9.9 | ||
| 5.4 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.5 | ||
| 29% | 18% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 39% | ||
| 10.3 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.8 | 13.3 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Blackburn Rovers | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Sunderland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Birmingham City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Burnley | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Hull City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Watford | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Sheffield United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Queens Park Rangers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Cardiff City | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Millwall | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Reading | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Stoke City | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Blackpool | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 14 | West Bromwich Albion | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Luton Town | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Wigan Athletic | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Preston North End | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | Coventry City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Rotherham United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Middlesbrough | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 21 | Norwich City | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 22 | Swansea City | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 23 | Bristol City | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 24 | Huddersfield Town | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
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