Football preview: Coventry City favourites when Huddersfield Town visit

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 28.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena

Get set for Coventry City - Huddersfield Town! Even with their varied results, this match could be a riot!

Insights:
  • Huddersfield Town have the fewest scored goals in the second half (11) in Championship

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Coventry City form and stats

6 victories, 4 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Coventry City have to build on here at The Coventry Building Society Arena in the Championship.

The Coventry City crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-4 to Norwich City here at The Coventry Building Society Arena. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Sheaf (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.43/10. Sheaf dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 24 successful passes (of 27 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Burnley (0-1).

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Coventry's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 5 games, won 0 matches, drawn 4 and lost 1.

Low-scoring affair? In this team's last 21 league games, 16 have seen two goals or less.

Coventry City has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches.

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Huddersfield Town so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-7 (win-draw-lose).

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Hull City (placed 16th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. Defender Helik was the best team player with a rating of 8.01. Helik scored one goal and won 2 of 3 duels.

A loss, in the FA Cup away at Preston North End, before that. As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Huddersfield Town playing away, we found 8 games. Results were 2 away wins, 3 draws and 3 home wins.

Lacking goals? 10 of this club's last 13 league fixtures have had two or less goals.

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Huddersfield Town have conceded 19 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Huddersfield Town have pulled off a streak of 4 consecutive games without losing (1-3-0) when facing Coventry.

Top Goalscorers

Coventry CityV. Gyökeres
V. Gyökeres
12 goals
Huddersfield TownJ. Rhodes
J. Rhodes
5 goals
Coventry CityJ. Allen
J. Allen
4 goals

Coventry City missing players

Huddersfield Town missing players

Coventry City Huddersfield Town
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
27 14 5 Played P 4 12 26
9 6 1 Won W 2 2 7
8 4 3 Drew D 1 3 5
10 4 1 Lost L 1 7 14
29 17 6 Scored S 6 12 25
31 14 5 Conceded C 6 19 33
89% 93% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
52% 50% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 65%
33% 29% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 58% 42%
26% 21% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 17% 15%
15% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
37% 36% 60% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 46%
44% 50% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 23%
30% 21% 20% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 38%
 
4.5 4.9 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.8 4
5.5 5.1 4.6 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 6.1 5
2 1.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.2 2.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.4 13.4 16 Shots (avg) S ( 10.2 8.7 9.5
4 4.5 4.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 3.5 3.4
27% 27% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 28%
 
10.7 10.4 9.6 Shots against (avg) S A 17.8 16.2 13.6
3.4 3.2 2.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.3 4.5
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Huddersfield Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Huddersfield Town have the fewest points (9) away in Championship
  • Huddersfield Town have the fewest scored goals in the second half (11) 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 Burnley 28 18 8 2 55 26 15 11 4 0 32 12 13 7 4 2 23 14 29 62
2 Sheffield United 28 17 6 5 48 24 14 9 3 2 30 13 14 8 3 3 18 11 24 57
3 Watford 28 12 8 8 34 29 14 7 3 4 20 13 14 5 5 4 14 16 5 44
4 Blackburn Rovers 28 14 1 13 31 35 13 9 0 4 20 13 15 5 1 9 11 22 -4 43
5 Middlesbrough 27 12 6 9 42 33 13 6 5 2 18 12 14 6 1 7 24 21 9 42
6 Norwich City 28 12 6 10 40 31 14 5 4 5 19 16 14 7 2 5 21 15 9 42
7 Luton Town 27 11 9 7 35 29 13 3 7 3 18 16 14 8 2 4 17 13 6 42
8 Millwall 27 12 6 9 33 27 13 8 3 2 20 8 14 4 3 7 13 19 6 42
9 West Bromwich Albion 28 11 8 9 38 30 14 6 4 4 20 14 14 5 4 5 18 16 8 41
10 Preston North End 28 11 7 10 26 31 14 3 4 7 8 18 14 8 3 3 18 13 -5 40
11 Swansea City 28 10 9 9 40 38 13 6 2 5 20 16 15 4 7 4 20 22 2 39
12 Sunderland 27 10 8 9 39 32 13 4 4 5 17 16 14 6 4 4 22 16 7 38
13 Queens Park Rangers 28 10 8 10 31 34 14 5 4 5 17 18 14 5 4 5 14 16 -3 38
14 Reading 28 11 4 13 31 42 13 8 2 3 20 14 15 3 2 10 11 28 -11 37
15 Coventry City 27 9 8 10 29 31 14 6 4 4 17 14 13 3 4 6 12 17 -2 35
16 Hull City 28 9 7 12 33 44 14 4 3 7 14 23 14 5 4 5 19 21 -11 34
17 Bristol City 28 8 9 11 37 38 15 5 4 6 19 17 13 3 5 5 18 21 -1 33
18 Stoke City 28 9 6 13 33 37 14 4 3 7 17 18 14 5 3 6 16 19 -4 33
19 Birmingham City 28 8 8 12 30 35 15 4 5 6 18 18 13 4 3 6 12 17 -5 32
20 Rotherham United 28 7 10 11 33 40 13 5 4 4 24 17 15 2 6 7 9 23 -7 31
21 Cardiff City 28 7 8 13 21 31 15 4 5 6 11 13 13 3 3 7 10 18 -10 29
22 Huddersfield Town 26 7 5 14 25 33 14 5 2 7 13 14 12 2 3 7 12 19 -8 26
23 Blackpool 27 6 8 13 28 40 13 3 3 7 14 19 14 3 5 6 14 21 -12 26
24 Wigan Athletic 28 6 7 15 27 49 15 2 3 10 11 30 13 4 4 5 16 19 -22 25

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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.