Coventry City favourites for feisty fight facing Wigan Athletic

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Tue 08.November
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: The Coventry Building Society Arena

Coventry City have won 10 of their 23 in total here in the safety of their own home. What will happen versus Wigan Athletic?

Insights:
  • Coventry City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Wigan Athletic is in the worst form (0-1-5)

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

3 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Coventry City have to build on here at The Coventry Building Society Arena in the Championship.

The Coventry City goalkeeper Ben Wilson is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 190 minutes without conceding a goal in the Championship.

A strong away win for Coventry against Watford the last match, as Gyökeres were on target. Gyökeres, a natural forward, was the best player for the team in that match, and was presented with a rating of 8.12 (out of 10). Gyökeres scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 19 successful passes (of 23 total).

Ahead of that match, Coventry City won a home game hosting Blackburn Rovers (1-0).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Coventry City 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 6 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

It should be noted that a peek at the 11 latest league games shows that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Coventry City, as the Championship home game vs Queens Park Rangers is only four days away.

Coventry aren't scoring a lot here at The Coventry Building Society Arena in the league, with only {6 goals} from 7 games. Coventry City have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Wigan Athletic form and stats

4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Wigan Athletic playing as the away team in the Championship this season.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Swansea City (placed 9th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. It looked so good for Wigan vs Swansea City, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Midfield player McClean was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.45/10. McClean signed up for two assists and hit two key passes.

A 0-1 loss hosting Stoke City before that.

We have checked recent matches where Wigan Athletic have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 7 games were 1 victory, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Blackpool in just four days.

Wigan Athletic have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 13 goals have been scored. 11 goals have been conceded by Wigan Athletic in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Coventry one win, zero draws and Wigan Athletic one victory. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Wigan AthleticW. Keane
W. Keane
7 goals
Coventry CityV. Gyökeres
V. Gyökeres
6 goals
Coventry CityG. Hamer
G. Hamer
3 goals

Coventry City missing players

Wigan Athletic missing players

Coventry City Wigan Athletic
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 7 3 Played P 3 9 19
6 3 1 Won W 1 4 5
5 1 1 Drew D 1 2 5
6 3 1 Lost L 1 3 9
17 6 4 Scored S 4 13 19
18 6 4 Conceded C 4 11 28
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
47% 29% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 89% 68%
35% 29% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 47%
24% 14% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 11% 21%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
35% 29% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 78% 63%
47% 43% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 21%
29% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 21%
 
3.9 4.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.7 3.8
6.2 5.6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 6.4 4.6
2 2.1 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.6 12 15 Shots (avg) S ( 7 9.3 10.5
3.6 3.4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.2 2.8
28% 25% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 45% 35%
 
11.4 11.1 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11.3 13.7 11.4
3.8 3.6 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.3 3.8 3.5
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Coventry City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Wigan Athletic have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Wigan Athletic have scored at least twice as many goals away as Coventry City have scored home.
  • Wigan Athletic have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Wigan Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Wigan Athletic is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 20 10 8 2 37 23 10 6 4 0 20 10 10 4 4 2 17 13 14 38
2 Blackburn Rovers 20 12 0 8 24 19 10 8 0 2 17 7 10 4 0 6 7 12 5 36
3 Sheffield United 19 10 5 4 34 18 9 5 3 1 22 10 10 5 2 3 12 8 16 35
4 Norwich City 20 9 5 6 28 21 10 5 3 2 17 10 10 4 2 4 11 11 7 32
5 Queens Park Rangers 19 9 4 6 25 20 9 5 2 2 14 8 10 4 2 4 11 12 5 31
6 Preston North End 20 8 7 5 16 16 10 3 4 3 5 7 10 5 3 2 11 9 0 31
7 Watford 19 8 5 6 26 22 9 5 1 3 15 10 10 3 4 3 11 12 4 29
8 Luton Town 19 7 8 4 22 19 10 2 6 2 13 11 9 5 2 2 9 8 3 29
9 Swansea City 19 8 5 6 25 26 10 5 2 3 15 13 9 3 3 3 10 13 -1 29
10 Millwall 19 8 4 7 22 20 10 7 1 2 16 7 9 1 3 5 6 13 2 28
11 Birmingham City 19 7 6 6 20 16 9 3 4 2 10 6 10 4 2 4 10 10 4 27
12 Reading 19 8 2 9 21 27 10 6 1 3 15 11 9 2 1 6 6 16 -6 26
13 Sunderland 19 6 6 7 24 22 9 2 4 3 10 10 10 4 2 4 14 12 2 24
14 Cardiff City 19 7 3 9 15 21 9 4 2 3 7 6 10 3 1 6 8 15 -6 24
15 Coventry City 17 6 5 6 17 18 7 3 1 3 6 6 10 3 4 3 11 12 -1 23
16 Bristol City 20 6 5 9 27 29 10 4 2 4 13 10 10 2 3 5 14 19 -2 23
17 Rotherham United 19 5 7 7 23 25 10 4 3 3 17 12 9 1 4 4 6 13 -2 22
18 Blackpool 19 6 4 9 23 28 9 3 1 5 12 13 10 3 3 4 11 15 -5 22
19 Stoke City 19 6 4 9 20 25 9 2 2 5 9 14 10 4 2 4 11 11 -5 22
20 Middlesbrough 19 5 6 8 24 25 10 3 5 2 11 10 9 2 1 6 13 15 -1 21
21 Hull City 19 6 3 10 21 35 10 4 0 6 10 18 9 2 3 4 11 17 -14 21
22 West Bromwich Albion 19 4 8 7 22 24 10 2 4 4 12 14 9 2 4 3 10 10 -2 20
23 Wigan Athletic 19 5 5 9 19 28 10 1 3 6 6 17 9 4 2 3 13 11 -9 20
24 Huddersfield Town 18 4 3 11 17 25 10 4 1 5 10 10 8 0 2 6 7 15 -8 15

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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.