Championship preview and stats: Fulham - Coventry City at Craven Cottage

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sun 10.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Craven Cottage (25700 seats)

Fulham have performed excellent football this season, sitting at 1st place in the table. Coventry City can look both up and down the table from the 12th place.

Insights:
  • Fulham have the most scored goals (93) in Championship
  • Coventry City have the most points from losing position (24) in Championship

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Fulham and Coventry City.

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Fulham form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Craven Cottage as Fulham have scored 45 goals to get 40 points from 19 games. The overall stats in the Championship are 12-4-3 (wins-draws-losses). Fulham has recorded two wins in a row here at Craven Cottage, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Marek Rodak not having conceded a league goal in 207 minutes.

Fulham enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Middlesbrough's place. The match ended 1-0 with Mitrović scoring. Defender Ream got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.83/10. Ream won 9 of 12 duels.

Before that match, a win away at Queens Park Rangers.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (45 in 19 games), Fulham's attacking play is working. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Fulham have conceded only 16 goals.

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Coventry City form and stats

The visitors are W5-D6-L8 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.

Coventry City lost away at Nottingham Forest (0-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Attacker Gyökeres got a player rating of 7.84 in the game. "Man of the match" Gyökeres hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 6 of 7 times and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).

A draw for Coventry before that, at their own venue hosting Blackburn Rovers (2-2).

Coventry City have scored 20 goals on their travels this season, from 19 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Coventry struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 29 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The fixture history shows this score when the contenders met earlier this campaign; Coventry City - Fulham 4-1. One of the profiles has been Gyokeres with 2 goals scored against Fulham in these 1 meetings.

Top Goalscorers

FulhamA. Mitrović
A. Mitrović
38 goals
Coventry CityV. Gyökeres
V. Gyökeres
14 goals
Coventry CityM. Godden
M. Godden
12 goals

Fulham missing players

Coventry City missing players

Fulham Coventry City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
39 19 6 Played P 7 19 40
25 12 5 Won W 0 5 15
8 4 1 Drew D 4 6 11
6 3 0 Lost L 3 8 14
93 45 17 Scored S 5 20 51
32 16 3 Conceded C 13 29 50
97% 95% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 86% 95% 95%
79% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 71% 74% 72%
51% 58% 83% Over 2.5 O 2.5 43% 42% 45%
33% 26% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 43% 32% 25%
28% 21% 17% Over 4.5 O 4.5 14% 16% 15%
54% 58% 50% BTTS BTTS 43% 53% 55%
38% 37% 50% Clean Sheets C S 14% 16% 22%
10% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 57% 37% 28%
 
6.3 7.2 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 5.6 5.9 6
4 3.6 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.6 4.6 4.1
1.4 1.2 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.8 1.7
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
15.5 17.6 15 Shots (avg) S ( 11.9 13 14.2
5.9 6.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 4.6 5
40% 37% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 23% 26%
 
8.8 8.3 9.2 Shots against (avg) S A 13 12.2 10.4
2.9 2.9 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.2 3.5
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Coventry City have the most points from losing position (24) in Championship
  • Fulham have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Fulham have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Fulham have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Coventry City have scored away.
  • Fulham have the fewest conceded goals (32) in Championship
  • Fulham have the most scored goals (45) at home in Championship
  • Fulham have the most scored goals (93) in Championship
  • Fulham have the most scored goals in the first half (45) in Championship
  • Fulham have the most scored goals in the second half (48) in Championship
  • Fulham have the the best goal difference (+29) at home in Championship
  • Fulham have the the best goal difference (+61) 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 Fulham 39 25 8 6 93 32 19 12 4 3 45 16 20 13 4 3 48 16 61 83
2 AFC Bournemouth 38 21 9 8 62 35 19 11 5 3 38 20 19 10 4 5 24 15 27 72
3 Huddersfield Town 40 18 12 10 52 43 19 10 5 4 27 20 21 8 7 6 25 23 9 66
4 Luton Town 40 18 11 11 59 45 20 10 6 4 34 21 20 8 5 7 25 24 14 65
5 Nottingham Forest 38 18 10 10 59 36 20 10 4 6 32 21 18 8 6 4 27 15 23 64
6 Sheffield United 40 18 10 12 53 41 19 11 4 4 32 13 21 7 6 8 21 28 12 64
7 Middlesbrough 39 18 8 13 52 41 19 12 2 5 29 17 20 6 6 8 23 24 11 62
8 Blackburn Rovers 40 17 11 12 51 41 20 12 4 4 35 21 20 5 7 8 16 20 10 62
9 Queens Park Rangers 40 17 8 15 54 51 21 9 6 6 28 22 19 8 2 9 26 29 3 59
10 Millwall 40 15 13 12 41 39 20 10 6 4 23 14 20 5 7 8 18 25 2 58
11 West Bromwich Albion 40 15 12 13 44 37 19 10 7 2 26 12 21 5 5 11 18 25 7 57
12 Coventry City 40 15 11 14 51 50 21 10 5 6 31 21 19 5 6 8 20 29 1 56
13 Preston North End 40 13 15 12 41 45 19 7 9 3 25 21 21 6 6 9 16 24 -4 54
14 Swansea City 39 15 9 15 46 52 18 8 5 5 23 20 21 7 4 10 23 32 -6 54
15 Stoke City 40 14 10 16 50 46 20 9 4 7 28 21 20 5 6 9 22 25 4 52
16 Blackpool 39 14 10 15 43 46 21 10 3 8 23 23 18 4 7 7 20 23 -3 52
17 Cardiff City 39 13 7 19 45 60 21 7 3 11 21 27 18 6 4 8 24 33 -15 46
18 Birmingham City 40 11 12 17 43 58 20 7 5 8 22 25 20 4 7 9 21 33 -15 45
19 Bristol City 40 12 8 20 51 72 20 7 6 7 26 27 20 5 2 13 25 45 -21 44
20 Hull City 40 11 8 21 33 45 20 5 3 12 16 26 20 6 5 9 17 19 -12 41
21 Reading 40 12 7 21 47 75 20 7 4 9 28 37 20 5 3 12 19 38 -28 37
22 Barnsley 39 6 11 22 29 55 20 5 7 8 17 22 19 1 4 14 12 33 -26 29
23 Derby County 40 12 13 15 39 45 20 10 7 3 27 17 20 2 6 12 12 28 -6 28
24 Peterborough United 40 6 9 25 33 81 20 4 7 9 20 31 20 2 2 16 13 50 -48 27

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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.