Coventry hosts Stoke City in round 21 of the English Championship. The match will be played on Saturday, December 26th at St. Andrew's Stadium (Birmingham)
Coventry managed to return to the Championship in the summer. A couple of years ago, the Sky Blues reached the bottom and even dropped to League 2. However, they managed not to get stuck there, and now we see them in the second strongest division of English Football. As for a newcomer with such a troublesome history, Mark Robins' charges showed good results at the start of the championship - 22 points scored in 20 matches. Since mid-November, Coventry has even managed to issue an impressive streak of eight meetings without defeats. Perhaps the Sky Blues relaxed too much, as they managed to lose to Sheffield Wednesday in the last round. Before this 1-0 defeat, the outsider could not win nine times in a row.
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Stoke City continues to improve its results after the failure of last season. The Potters played in the Premier League for a long time (10 years) but left the division in 2018. They didn’t manage to return at once, and last season the team even risked to be relegated to League 1. The bet on Michael O'Neill worked - the Northern Irish specialist managed to prevent a complete failure and pulled his new players to 15th place. Of course, it was only the first step from the team that has such players as Shawcross, Joe Allen, Tom Ince, Clucas, Vokes, Powell, as well as incredibly experienced Obi Mikel and Steven Fletcher. And its fans certainly do not wait for a fight for survival in the Championship from their favorites. Partially, optimistic forecasts came true - Stoke City has already scored 33 points, and it is fighting for the playoff zone. In December, the results are not the best – before a 1-0 victory over Blackburn, the Potters couldn’t win three times in a row. Besides, while the opponent was resting, Stoke played against Tottenham in the EFL Cup on Wednesday night.
Coventry often plays rather boringly - no more than two goals were scored in even out of its last nine matches, and three games even ended with a 0-0 score. Stoke had 0-0 and 1-0 three times in the last seven rounds. We think that the variant with Under 2.5 goals suggests itself.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 goals scored
