On Saturday Dec 18th, in week 23, Coventry City and Stoke City will play a match in Coventry in a meeting of these two Championship teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 6 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. 7th placed Coventry City is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Huddersfield Town. Daniel Ward scored the first goal for Huddersfield Town in the 18th minute, then in the 3rd minute of the second half’s stoppage time, Jodi Jones sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Matt Godden squeezing out at least the one point for Coventry City. Coventry City is looking for direction having 2 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 6th placed Stoke City, recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Middlesbrough. Neither Stoke City nor Middlesbrough could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 9 and 7 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Stoke City is looking for direction having 4 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Coventry City won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Both Mario Vrančić and Tyrese Campbell have been the hottest scorers for Stoke City in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals each. Matt Godden has been the most prolific scorer on Coventry City in the last five matches with 2 goals.