Cardiff City visit to the Coventry Building Society Arena on Wednesday for the Championship meeting with hosts Coventry City. Both teams come from a victorious weekend.
Coventry City returned to winning ways last Saturday in the match against Middlesbrough on home turf taking a 2-0 victory. Viktor Gyökeres and Martyn Waghorn got to the net in the second half to take away the three points, pushing them to 12 points currently positioned 6th.
Coventry marked their three home win out of the three played on home turf this term managing over 2 scores. Coventry have had an impressive performance having won six of their last seven home matches.
Cardiff City, on the other hand, ended their run of two games without a win last time out when they beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 on Sunday and return to the Midlands three days later looking to maintain an impressive away record.
Rubin Colwill had the comeback after the 23rd Nottingham goal. Earlier, Mick McCarthy’s side lost 2-0 to Brighton and Hove Albion in the EFL Cup before suffering a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Bristol City. Mick McCarthy’s men have lost just one of their last 15 matches away from the Cardiff City Stadium.
Cardiff City are currently the eighth positioned with 11 points from the six games of the campaign and just two places behind Coventry City.
Coventry City vs Cardiff City head to head
The two side have played 23 matches since 2003 with the visitors here being the favorites with 11 victories and 7 draws. The hosts have only won 5 times. Coventry have won three home matches in a row. However, Cardiff have lost none of their last 7 away matches.
- Cardiff 3-1 Coventry 13/02/21
- Coventry 1-0 Cardiff 25/11/20
- Coventry 1-2 Cardiff 13/08/14
- Cardiff 2-2 Coventry 21/03/12
- Coventry 1-1 Cardiff 22/11/11
Home
- Coventry 2-0 Middlesbrough
- QPR 2-0 Coventry
- Coventry 2-1 Reading
- Blackpool 0-1 Coventry
- Barnsley 1-0 Coventry
Away
- Nottingham 1-2 Cardiff
- Cardiff 1-2 Bristol City
- Cardiff 0-2 Brighton
- Cardiff 3-1 Millwall
- Peterborough 2-2 Cardiff
Coventry City team news
Liam Kelly and Josh Eccles have been ruled out due to injuries. No suspensions ahead of this fixture.
Cardiff City team news
Tomlin Lee and Isaac Vassell miss out on injuries. No suspensions in the squad.
Prediction and Odds
- Both sides to score
- Double chance (Draw/Cardiff to win)
