Coventry-Leicester : Preview
By CovSid67
August 5 2011
Head-To-Head, Recent Form, Team News, and the Latest Betting Odds, ahead of Saturday's Championship match between Coventry City and Leicester.
Coventry City and Leicester have met 84 times previously, with Coventry having won 25 times, Leicester having won 35 times, and 24 matches have ended in a draw. Both matches ended 1-1 last season, with Platt scoring for Coventry City in the home fixture, and Marlon King in the away fixture. Coventry City have only beaten Leicester once in their last 14 attempts.
Coventry City ended last season with two wins (3-0 away at Portsmouth, and 2-1 at home to Millwall), three draws (Scunthorpe, Reading, and Norwich), and a defeat (Versus Middlesboro) in the last six games, though said info is fairly irrelevant. Leicester managed to score four times in three of their last seven matches.
Coventry City's thread-bare squad could be lacking half-a-dozen potential starters, with Clarke, Turner, Bell, Jutkiewicz, Baker, and Eastwood all potentially or definitely missing, against a side who are joint favourites to win the Championship. Here's hoping the bookies are wrong....
Coventry City are a fairly huge 14/5 (With Victor Chandler) to win, while Leicester are 11/10 to win. The draw is also 12/5. Coventry to win 2/1 is 12/1, while Leicester to win 2-1 is 8/1. Six Leicester players are on the first scorer list before any Coventry City player gets a mention, with Jutkiewicz at 8/1. Freddie Eastwood is 17/2, despite the fact he won't be playing. Leicester to win 6-1 is 400/1, while Coventry City to win 10-0 is 500/1.
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