Coventry City vs Burnley: Full pre-match guide and statistics

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 08.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena

Coventry City have not won many points this season. Can the gang get something to cheer about when Burnley stop by The Coventry Building Society Arena?

Insights:
  • Coventry City have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Championship
  • Burnley have scored more than double the goals of Coventry City.

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.

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Coventry City form and stats

Only two Championship home games for Coventry City so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

The Coventry goalkeeper Ben Wilson is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 345 minutes without conceding a goal in the Championship.

Coventry City drew their last game, 0-0 away at Bristol City (placed 14th). Midfield player Palmer got a match rating of 7.8 in that game, the max score being 10. Palmer hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).

Before that, Coventry had a home game versus Middlesbrough which ended with a victory 1-0.

At The Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry City has the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.

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Burnley form and stats

2 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Burnley playing as the away team in the Championship this season. It's three draws from Burnley's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.

Burnley played 1-1 against Stoke City in their previous match. Midfield player Brownhill was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.01/10. Brownhill served one assist and hit four key passes.

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Cardiff City.

A tale of few goals? 9 of this team's latest 12 league fixtures have seen two or less goals.

The travelling fans enjoy Burnley's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Burnley as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Coventry City victories, three draws and four Burnley wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BurnleyJ. Rodriguez
J. Rodriguez
5 goals
BurnleyJ. Brownhill
J. Brownhill
4 goals
BurnleyN. Tella
N. Tella
4 goals

Coventry City missing players

Burnley missing players

Coventry City Burnley
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 2 0 Played P 2 6 12
1 1 0 Won W 1 2 4
4 0 0 Drew D 1 3 7
4 1 0 Lost L 0 1 1
8 1 0 Scored S 2 9 19
13 1 0 Conceded C 1 5 12
78% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
56% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 83%
44% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 17% 25%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 17%
22% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 17%
44% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 75%
33% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 17% 17%
44% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 8%
 
3.9 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.3 5.7
5.3 6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.3 4.3
1.9 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.3 1.2
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.9 11 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 11.5 12.9
3.7 2.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.7 4.9
24% 20% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 32% 32%
 
10.6 8.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 13 11 10.2
4.4 4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.3 3.9
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Burnley have scored more than double the goals of Coventry City.
  • Burnley have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Burnley haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Coventry City have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Championship
  • Coventry City have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Championship
  • Coventry City have won significantly more corners at home than away.

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

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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.