Matchday 27# Coventry v Sheffield UTD (2 Viewers)

[Coventry La La La]

Coventry v Sheffield UTD
Venue - Ricoh Arena


Coventry v Sheff UTD - Head to Head


Saturday will be the 52nd league and cup match between Coventry City and Sheffield United.

City have won 17 of those games and drawn 16 times. They have scored 61 goals compared to 62.
City won 1-0 at Sheffield United back in October and the last time they did the double over The Blades was in 2001/2002.

Current Form

Coventry City

Home Form: WWLLDW

Posistion: 11th (35 points)

Form table: 17th (last 8 matches)

Sheffield United

Away form:DWLLLL

Posistion: 21st (26 points)

Form Table: 20th (last 8 matches)

My Predictions​

Formation​

Westwood
Keogh, Cranie, R.Wood,O'halloran
Gunnarson Doyle, Carsley(C), McSheffrey
Eastwood, Lukas.J ​

Score: 2-1 (Eastwood,Gunnarson)​

Attendance: 15,934​

Any match day predictions/banter please post here.​

 

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[hamil99]

Id hav gunner in the middle and baker wide, leaving out Doyle.

 

[ccfc luke]

Carlsey and Clingan in the centre with Baker out wide.

 

[Pigeon]

Westwood
Keogh Cranie Woody O'Halloran
McSheff Gunnerson Doyle Baker
Eastwood Juke​

2-0 Baker and Eastwood

Attendance: 17,000 (maybe a bit optimistic)

 

[ccfctommy]

Please no Doyle and Carsley together!

2-1 City

 

[Jimthor]

I'd like to see Baker start too, with Gunnarson in the middle (with Carsley, although he's been rubbish last couple of time i've seen him). How far is Clingan from being fit now?

Westwood
Keogh Cranie Wood O'Halloran
Baker Gunnarson Carsley(c) McSheffrey
SuperFred Jutkiewicz

(Finally learned how to spell Jutkiewicz... i think!)
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[Bopquar]

The NSPCC are looking for volunteers to attend the Ricoh Arena on Saturday January 15th from 12pm till 3pm to bucket collect and inform people about the Jaguar Text to Win competition with flyers.

All volunteers will then be able to enjoy a warm cup of coffee/tea and go and watch Coventry V Sheffield for free.

They need lots of volunteers so if you are interested please send an email to the NSPCC direct at [email protected]

 

[smileycov]

WESTWOOD
KEOGH CRANIE WOOD(C) O'HALLORAN
BAKER GUNNAR CLINGAN SHEFFERS
DUKE FREDDY
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4 -0 City
Eastwood 2 gunnar baker

a good passing game, where it alll comes together​

 

[IrishSkyBlue]

2-1 freddie and baker we need to win this one and untied are in very poor away form.

 

[Nick]

I think it will be the same starting lineup as against Palace with a 2-1 win to us with Eastwood getting another.

 

[SkyBlueKay]

I agree with Nick! They were really good last week!

I'm tempted to go 3-1 to us with Eastwood, Jutkiewicz & Gunnarsson scoring! Although I would like to see McSheffrey score

 

[covladzak]

Im gonna go with the flow 2-1 to us, a late goal keeps it from a draw.....:wave:

 

[Disorganised1]

I'm going for 3 - 1 with 2 from Freddie and 1 from Lil Sheff.
As Blunts normally bring a few I reckon we might get 19K for this.

 

[dutchman]

Should be an easy win this week: 2-0

 

[skybluedan]

4-1 city
eastwood 2 wood and sheff
att 16,222

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

Horrible cold and general man flue been in bed since 8 o'clock last night and there's only one think I'd get out of bed for in times like this and that's to watch the city, then you think to yourself after 90 minutes why do I bother, but hey that's what watching city's about hey??

Anyway predictions:

1-0 Super Fred to get the goal.

15,897

 

[cheesehog]

2-0 City.... Can't see the Blades scoring to be honest..

 

[SkyBluesAndy]

2-0 City Eastwood and Jutkiewicz

And a clap for Micky Adams, he did save us after that twat Reid nearly sent us down

 

[hamil99]

I'm feeling a bit nervous about this one, think we will shade it but wouldn't like to guess a score line...

 

[smileycov]

2-0 City Eastwood and Jutkiewicz

And a clap for Micky Adams, he did save us after that twat Reid nearly sent us down

Haha i was at gillingham away, we lost 3-1 some geezer shouts Ooii Reid sort it out, or fuck off...............long pause then he pipes up, in fact dont sort it out just fuck off. shortly after, he left!! happy dayz>

 

[SkyBlueMania]

I think this will be a very close and scrappy game, don't have too much confidence in the city after the latest string of results. Very important game though, loss is not an option!

 

[6 Generations]

What is apparent more often than not this season, is that our best results have arrived by virtue of playing a direct style of football, as opposed todays more expansive play. Performances against Preston, Cardiff, Leeds and Norwich come to mind, (NIL POINTS). Against Doncaster we were awful and nicked it. I know that in the last 2 games that the football has been more pleasing on the eye, but, without doubt when we were scrapping, scratching and biting opposition legs, we were cemented in the top six. Winning means more to me than 'Tippy Tappy'. PUSB

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

Now that's what we want to see, an attacking passing style of play! Tore Sheff United a new one when we got the ball down. How many chances did we have today? On another day with a certain Mr King upfront it could have been 5 but again credit where credit's due to Mr Boothroyd this new found passing system is 100% better to watch and did you notice at the end and at half time standing ovations like i said fans can take loosing when you play well, attack and keep the ball on the deck what they can't stand is the tripe we were served of late constantly hoofing balls up field with no plan B. I for one hope this new style continues and the fans return to the Ricoh.

P.S Does Boothroyd read my comments on SBT after my little rant about possibly changing our style to a more technical style as we certainly have the players to do it and look what happend?

 

[SkyBlueKay]

Me & my dad were talking to two Sheff Utd fans after the match and they couldn't believe how we hadn't won!! They said they felt lucky taking a point!

 

[Nick]

I can't see how we didn't win that! I wonder how many shots we had compared to theirs?

I know we had over 15 corners!

 

[Coventry La La La]

Here are the stats of the Game shocking how City didn't win

 

[SkyBlueKay]

21 shots in total and we couldn't finish any of them Doesn't fill me with much optimism really!

 

[Nick]

Couldn't score in a brothel today, their keeper made some great saves though!

 

[ccfctommy]

That was the best we've played all season.

Bakers best game for us.

Shows we can play good football when we want to.

 

[Pigeon]

That was the best 0-0 game I've ever seen at Coventry.
This style of football is more attractive to watch and makes you want to come back next week (advertised season tickets at a good time).
I think with a quality striker like King on the pitch we would have buried a few of those many chances.
Who would you change around next week or do you leave it the same with King and Clingon on the bench?
Juke worked so hard yesterday and the way other teams get away with holding onto him is unbelievable because its not even subtle anymore bordering assault at some stages.
Lets push back up the table now PUSB

 

[Coventry La La La]

We played well on the deck but I would have traded that for a scrappy 1-0 win

 

[ccfc luke]

Yea, so would i but i think we have got to learn to play football to be succesful in this league because we cant get scrappy 1-0 wins every week so i am quite happy about the game. If we carry on playing as we did on saturday then i think we will have a good chance of reaching the play-offs.

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

We played well on the deck but I would have traded that for a scrappy 1-0 win

And that's what we haven't been doing when we play scrappy so i'll stick to the passing style everyday of the week!

 

[Jimthor]

Great performance, seriously unlucky not to get a win. We held posession really well which is something we never seem to do. Baker gave us another dimension, it was really good to finally have someone to run at players and that could put a good ball in. Jutkiewicz and McSheffrey both had very good games too, and it was good to see O'Halloran play the whole game and Cranie look solid at CB. I imagine for the next game Lukas will drop down to the bench for Marlon to come in (you can hardly drop Freddy after his recent goalscoring), but he'll definitely give Aidy something to think about at least. If we play like that every game then we could beat anyone in the league, let's hope they can keep it up. 2 very stern tests in our next 2 games!