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Sky Blues to end Bournemouth’s promising league start

Coventry City vs Bournemouth - 02/10/2020

Sky Blues to end Bournemouth’s promising league start
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On Friday night, Coventry City host Bournemouth at St Andrew's, as the home team look to kick-start their Championship campaign, while the visitors hope to continue a decent run of league form.

The home side has achieved mixed results since returning to the Championship. In fact, they could not have had more of an inconsistent start to their league campaign.

Mark Robins team opened their league campaign with a 2-1 defeat at Bristol City, before beating QPR 3-2 and a goalless draw with Barnsley last time out. The last two results have certainly shown some promise for City, who are playing in the second tier for the first time since 2012.

Coventry have a mixed recent home record in the Championship, although most of their recent home games were eight years ago and played at their former home the Ricoh Arena.

Therefore it is hard to judge the Sky Blues strength at their temporary home St Andrews just yet in the second tier. However, the win over QPR means that Coventry are unbeaten in 15 home games in all competitions.

Bournemouth have made a decent start to life in the Championship after last seasons relegation from the Premier League. Eddie Howe’s former assistant Jason Tindall has guided the Cherries to seven points from a possible nine so far this season in the English second tier.

Last time out the visitors recorded a 1-0 home win over Norwich City. The victory means that the Cherries are unbeaten in the Championship in 16 games. However, like Coventry, the Cherries have not featured in the second tier in recent seasons until the current campaign.

The team from the south coast last played in the Championship in season 2014/15.

Forebet predicts that Coventry will record a victory in a high-scoring clash to end the visitors strong recent run of results in the second tier.

Home team
Away team
Probability %
1X2
Pred
Correct score
Avg. goals
Weather conditions
Coef.
Score
Live
coef.
CH
473419
1
2 - 1
2.50
12°
3.70
3.70 3.30 2.10 -1 -1
FT
1 - 3(1 - 1)
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- - -
Championship Regular Season
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Leicester City 94 44 30 4 10 47
2
Leeds United 90 44 27 9 8 43
3
Ipswich Town 89 43 26 11 6 32
4
Southampton 84 44 25 9 10 24
5
West Bromwich 72 44 20 12 12 23
6
Norwich City 72 44 21 9 14 16
7
Hull City 69 44 19 12 13 9
8
Coventry City 63 43 17 12 14 13
9
Middlesbrough 63 44 18 9 17 4
10
Preston North End 63 44 18 9 17 -5
11
Cardiff City 62 44 19 5 20 -11
12
Bristol City 59 44 16 11 17 4
13
Sunderland 56 44 16 8 20 1
14
Swansea City 56 44 15 11 18 -5
15
Watford 53 44 12 17 15 1
16
Millwall 53 44 14 11 19 -12
17
Stoke City 50 44 13 11 20 -16
18
QPR 50 44 13 11 20 -16
19
Blackburn Rovers 49 44 13 10 21 -16
20
Plymouth Argyle 48 44 12 12 20 -11
21
Sheffield Wednesday 47 44 13 8 23 -29
22
Birmingham City 46 44 12 10 22 -16
23
Huddersfield 44 44 9 17 18 -27
24
Rotherham 24 44 4 12 28 -53

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