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Coventry City v Preston North End : Championship match betting preview, prediction and odds

Wed 11th Mar, 20:00 BST, The Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry

Home advantage can be vital in the Championship, and Frank Lampard’s Coventry City will have the blessing of it on Wednesday night. Paul Heckingbottom’s Preston North End are their visitors to The Coventry Building Society Arena. We have custom-designed stats for every major market, from from under 0.5 goals to over 5.5, including form and historical head-to-head data. Predictions are produced from these, and the odds come directly from leading bookmakers.

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Best Tip: Over 1.5 goals

Neither Coventry or Preston are in a rich vein of form that would have us feeling confident in tipping a match winner, so instead we've gone for over 1.5 goals. The statistics show that both have a track record in this market, both individually and when facing one another head-to-head. We're predicting there's a 77% chance of two goals or more.

If you’re looking for a winner in this match, we think Coventry are the most likely. Our predictive algorithm gives them a 55% chance of victory, and the bookies have them at a best price of 1.50.

Checkout the hundreds of tips picked but our top win/draw/win tipsters

Predictions	Bet365	Coral
Coventry 55%	1.45 7%	1.50 4%
Draw 24%	4.75 5%	4.60 4%
Preston 21%	6.00 20%	5.75 12%
Coventry 1-0 11%	8.50 6%	7.50 6%
Draw 1-1 11%	9.00 10%	8.00 6%
Coventry 2-0 10%	8.00	7.50
Coventry 2-1 10%	8.50 6%	7.50
Draw 0-0 7%	17.00 11%	13.00 13%
Preston 1-0 6%	19.00 10%	15.00
Coventry 3-0 6%	11.00 10%	9.50
Coventry 3-1 6%	11.00	10.00 5%
Preston 2-1 6%	19.00 10%	15.00
Draw 2-2 5%	17.00	13.00
Preston 2-0 3%	34.00 17%	21.00 9%
Coventry 3-2 3%	21.00	17.00 13%
Coventry 4-0 2%	19.00 12%	15.00 15%
Coventry 4-1 2%	19.00 12%	15.00 15%
Preston 3-1 2%	41.00	26.00 10%
Over 2.5 Goals 51%	1.57 5%	1.55 5%
Under 2.5 Goals 49%	2.38 10%	2.30 6%
Home 1st Goal 55%	1.44 3%	1.40 3%
Away 1st Goal 41%	2.88	3.10 6%
No 1st Goal 4%	17.00 11%	13.00 13%
BTTS - Yes 52%	1.73 4%	1.73 2%
BTTS - No 48%	2.00 5%	2.00 2%
BTTS - Home Win 24%	2.88 10%	2.90 7%
BTTS - Draw 17%	5.50 8%	5.25 5%
BTTS - Away Win 10%	10.00 9%	8.50 11%
Home/draw 79%	1.13 3%	1.13 2%
Away/draw 45%	2.63 12%	2.60 5%
Home/away 76%	1.18 1%	1.18
Over 1.5 Goals 76%	1.20 3%	1.17 3%
Under 1.5 Goals 24%	4.50 10%	4.60 8%
Over 3.5 Goals 29%	2.50 9%	2.38 11%
Under 3.5 Goals 71%	1.53 6%	1.53 6%
Over 4.5 Goals 14%	4.33 8%	4.00 11%
Under 4.5 Goals 86%	1.22 2%	1.20 4%
Over 5.5 Goals 6%	8.00 14%	7.50 15%
Under 5.5 Goals 94%	1.08 2%	1.07 2%
Over 0.5 Goals 93%	1.03 1%	1.02 1%
Under 0.5 Goals 7%	15.00 21%	13.00 13%
Home DNB 72%	1.18 4%	1.18 4%
Away DNB 38%	4.50 18%	4.40 12%
Coventry win to nil 31%	2.63	-
Preston win to nil 11%	11.00 27%	-
Coventry / Coventry 37%	2.20 10%	2.10 5%
Coventry / Preston 2%	41.00	29.00 15%
Coventry / Draw 6%	15.00	13.00
Draw / Coventry 18%	4.33	4.40 2%
Draw / Preston 6%	13.00 24%	12.00 8%
Draw / Draw 12%	7.00 13%	7.00
Preston / Coventry 4%	19.00 12%	17.00
Preston / Preston 8%	11.00 8%	8.50 6%
Preston / Draw 5%	17.00 11%	13.00 13%

Win / draw / win Championship table

Coventry have played 36 matches so far this season and lay in 1st place in the Championship league table.

Performance against teams below them in the league

They have played 36 games against teams below in the table, having won 22, drawn 8 and lost 6 matches. They have kept 12 clean sheets and have failed to score in 5 fixtures. Coventry have outscored their opponents by 74 goals to 42 goals.

Home League Performance

Coventry have played 17 games at home winning 13, drawing 3 and losing 1 game. They have scored 36 goals, kept 6 clean sheets and conceded 13 goals at home.

Preston are in 14th position in the Championship on 49 points having played 36 matches so far this season.

Away League Performance

5 of those games have been losing matches. They have conceded 20 goals and kept 4 clean sheets. They have scored 19 goals in total and failed to score in 4 fixtures.

Performance against teams above them in the league

22 games have come against teams above them in the table. They have lost 6 games, drawn 10 and won 6. Preston have conceded 28 goals, scored 24, failed to score in 6 fixtures and have kept 5 clean sheets.

BTTS yes BTTS no BTTS yes BTTS no Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Over 0.5 Under 0.5 Over 1.5 Under 1.5 Over 2.5 Under 2.5 Over 3.5 Under 3.5 Over 4.5 Under 4.5 Over 5.5 Under 5.5 For 0-0 Against Won Draw Lost	Coventry Preston
Results by League Table

	TEAM	PLD	W	D	L	GD	PTS	HOME	AWAY	HOME	AWAY
1	Coventry	36	22	8	6	36	74	-	-	d 1-1A	Mar 11
2	M'Boro	36	20	9	7	23	69	w 3-1F	w 2-4F	d 2-2F	l 4-0A
3	Millwall	36	19	8	9	9	65	w 2-1F	w 0-4F	l 0-2A	d 1-1F
4	Ipswich	35	18	10	7	26	64	l 0-2A	l 3-0A	w 1-0F	d 1-1F
5	Hull	36	18	6	12	5	60	d 0-00-0	Apr 6	l 0-3A	d 2-2F
6	Wrexham	35	15	12	8	9	57	Apr 25	l 3-2F	d 1-1A	l 2-1A
7	Derby	36	15	9	12	7	54	Apr 3	w 3-5F	l 0-1A	w 0-1F
8	Southampton	35	14	11	10	11	53	Mar 14	d 1-1F	May 2	w 0-2F
9	Watford	35	13	12	10	4	51	w 3-1F	May 2	d 2-2F	d 1-1F
10	Bristol C	36	14	8	14	2	50	w 1-0F	w 0-2F	d 0-00-0	w 0-2F
11	Sheff Utd	36	15	4	17	2	49	w 3-1A	w 1-2A	w 3-2A	Apr 25
12	Birmingham	36	13	10	13	-1	49	w 3-0F	l 3-2A	l 0-1A	Apr 22
13	Swansea	36	14	7	15	-1	49	w 1-0F	Mar 21	w 2-1F	d 1-1F
14	Preston	36	12	13	11	-1	49	Mar 11	d 1-1F	-	-
15	Stoke	36	13	8	15	3	47	w 2-1F	w 0-1F	Mar 20	d 0-00-0
16	QPR	36	13	8	15	-12	47	w 7-1F	l 2-1F	Apr 6	d 1-1A
17	Norwich	35	13	6	16	3	45	d 1-1A	l 2-1F	d 1-1A	Mar 14
18	Charlton	36	11	11	14	-10	44	w 3-1A	d 1-1F	w 2-0F	Apr 11
19	Portsmouth	35	10	10	15	-10	40	Apr 21	w 1-2F	w 1-0F	l 1-0A
20	Blackburn	36	10	9	17	-13	39	w 2-0F	Apr 18	l 1-2A	l 1-0A
21	West Brom	36	9	9	18	-18	36	w 3-2A	w 0-2F	Apr 18	l 2-1A
22	Leicester	36	10	11	15	-9	35	w 2-1A	d 0-00-0	w 2-1F	Apr 3
23	Oxford Utd	36	8	11	17	-14	35	d 0-00-0	d 2-2F	l 1-3A	w 1-2F
24	Sheff Wed	36	1	8	27	-51	-7	Apr 11	w 0-5F	w 3-0F	w 2-3A

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Win / draw / win form

Coventry have not lost in 5 consecutive home league games

Home

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

17 / 20

Conceded

12 / 20

Clean sheets

8 / 20

Failed to score

3 / 20

Won

HOME FORM Win / Draw / Win
Coventry	2 - 1	Stoke
Coventry	3 - 1	M'Boro
Coventry	0 - 0	Oxford Utd
Coventry	2 - 1	Millwall
Coventry	2 - 1	Leicester
Coventry	0 - 2	Ipswich
Coventry	1 - 0	Swansea
Coventry	1 - 0	Bristol C
Coventry	3 - 1	Charlton
Coventry	3 - 2	West Brom
Coventry	3 - 1	Sheff Utd
Coventry	3 - 1	Watford
Coventry	2 - 0	Blackburn
Coventry	3 - 0	Birmingham
Coventry	1 - 1	Norwich
Coventry	7 - 1	QPR
Coventry	0 - 0	Hull
Coventry	1 - 2	Sunderland
Coventry	2 - 0	M'Boro
Coventry	2 - 0	West Brom

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

17 / 20

Conceded

15 / 20

Clean sheets

5 / 20

Failed to score

3 / 20

Won

Lost

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win
A	Coventry	2 - 0	Bristol C
H	Coventry	2 - 1	Stoke
A	Coventry	2 - 1	Sheff Utd
A	Coventry	2 - 0	West Brom
H	Coventry	3 - 1	M'Boro
H	Coventry	0 - 0	Oxford Utd
A	Coventry	1 - 2	QPR
A	Coventry	1 - 2	Norwich
H	Coventry	2 - 1	Millwall
H	Coventry	2 - 1	Leicester
A	Coventry	2 - 3	Birmingham
A	Coventry	1 - 1	Charlton
H	Coventry	0 - 2	Ipswich
H	Coventry	1 - 0	Swansea
A	Coventry	1 - 1	Southampton
H	Coventry	1 - 0	Bristol C
A	Coventry	1 - 1	Preston
A	Coventry	0 - 3	Ipswich
H	Coventry	3 - 1	Charlton
A	Coventry	4 - 2	M'Boro

Away

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

16 / 20

Conceded

16 / 20

Clean sheets

4 / 20

Failed to score

4 / 20

Won

Draw

Lost

AWAY FORM Win / Draw / Win
Swansea	1 - 1	Preston
Blackburn	1 - 0	Preston
Ipswich	1 - 1	Preston
M'Boro	4 - 0	Preston
Bristol C	0 - 2	Preston
Wrexham	2 - 1	Preston
Stoke	0 - 0	Preston
Oxford Utd	1 - 2	Preston
Sheff Wed	2 - 3	Preston
Watford	1 - 1	Preston
Millwall	1 - 1	Preston
Southampton	0 - 2	Preston
West Brom	2 - 1	Preston
Hull	2 - 2	Preston
Derby	0 - 1	Preston
Portsmouth	1 - 0	Preston
QPR	1 - 1	Preston
Bristol C	2 - 2	Preston
Hull	2 - 1	Preston
Leeds	2 - 1	Preston

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

14 / 20

Conceded

16 / 20

Clean sheets

4 / 20

Failed to score

6 / 20

Won

Draw

Lost

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win
H	Preston	1 - 3	Oxford Utd
H	Preston	0 - 2	Millwall
A	Preston	1 - 1	Swansea
A	Preston	0 - 1	Blackburn
H	Preston	2 - 2	Watford
H	Preston	1 - 0	Portsmouth
A	Preston	1 - 1	Ipswich
A	Preston	0 - 4	M'Boro
H	Preston	0 - 3	Hull
H	Preston	0 - 1	Derby
A	Preston	2 - 0	Bristol C
H	Preston	3 - 0	Sheff Wed
A	Preston	1 - 2	Wrexham
A	Preston	0 - 0	Stoke
H	Preston	1 - 1	Norwich
A	Preston	2 - 1	Oxford Utd
H	Preston	1 - 1	Coventry
H	Preston	1 - 1	Wrexham
A	Preston	3 - 2	Sheff Wed
A	Preston	1 - 1	Watford

Win / draw / win head to head (H2H)

Coventry

Preston

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

11 / 18

17 / 18

Clean sheets

1 / 18

7 / 18

COV

PNE

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Coventry
Coventry	2 - 1
	0 - 3	Preston
	0 - 1	Preston
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
	0 - 1	Preston
	0 - 2	Preston
Draw	4 - 4	Draw
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
	1 - 2	Preston
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
Coventry	2 - 1
	0 - 4	Preston
	0 - 1	Preston
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Coventry	4 - 1
	1 - 2	Preston
Draw	2 - 2	Draw

Preston

Coventry

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

18 / 19

13 / 19

Clean sheets

6 / 19

1 / 19

PNE

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Preston
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Preston	1 - 0
Preston	3 - 2
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
Preston	2 - 1
Preston	2 - 0
Preston	1 - 0
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
Preston	2 - 1
Preston	3 - 2
Preston	2 - 1
Preston	1 - 0
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Preston	3 - 1
Preston	3 - 2
Preston	4 - 2
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
Preston	4 - 0

Goal Statistics

Coventry City's defensive record is to be admired, F. Lampard's men having conceded 1 or less in 5 consecutive Championship games. An underwhelming PG rating of 1.0 for Preston North End makes sense in this context.

	Coventry 1st	Preston 14th
	Kickoff prediction
Kickoff prediction	1.7 goals	1.0 goals
	Scoring probability
Scoring probability	0 18% 1 31% 2 27% 3 15% 4+ 10% There is a 82% probability that Coventry will score 1 or more goals	0 37% 1 37% 2 18% 3 4+ There is a 74% probability of Preston scoring 1 goal or less

	20 home / away league games
20 home / away league games	+11 Coventry have scored 11% more goals at home than predicted	+7 Preston’s goalscoring when away has been inline with predictions
	2.1 average goals scored	1.2 average goals scored
	0.8 conceded	1.3 conceded

Attack defence ratings
Championship - 2025/2026 season

26%

better

COV

PNE

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Games scored	31		27
Failed to score	5		9
Scored first	24		18
Goals scored	74		42
Avg. goals scored	2.1		1.2
Avg. shots per game	12		8
Avg. shots per goal	6		7
Conversion rate for	17		15
Avg. XG for	2		1.1
KickOff rating		+26%

16%

better

COV

PNE

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Games conceded	24		27
Clean sheets	12		9
Conceded first	9		16
Goals conceded	38		43
Avg. goals conceded	1.1		1.2
Avg. shots/game conceded	8		9
Avg. shots/goal conceded	8		8
Conversion rate against	12%		13%
Avg. XG against	1.1		1.5
KickOff rating		+16%

Coventry v Preston Championship lLine ups will show here when available.

Coventry Championship squad statistics 2025/2026

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
36	16	7	8
C Rushworth	H Wright	M Ewijk	M Ewijk

Players	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
C Rushworth GLK	36		1	2 -
M Grimes MID	36		2	5 -
M Ewijk DEF	34		7	8 -
J Dasilva DEF	33		3	6 1
E Simms FWD	33	10	3	-
E Mason-Clark FWD	32	7	5	3 -
H Wright FWD	32	16	1	4 -
L Kitching DEF	30	2		6 -
V Torp MID	30	7	4	3 -
T Sakamoto FWD	30	5	3	4 -
B Thomas DEF	28	2	5	6 1
J Eccles MID	26	4		5 -
J Rudoni MID	25	5	5	-
B Thomas-Asante FWD	24	10	4	-
J Allen MID	21	1	1	-
K Kesler-Hayden DEF	19	1	1	1 -
L Woolfenden DEF	13			1 -
J Latibeaudiere DEF	10			1
M Brau DEF	8			-
J Bidwell DEF	8			1 -
K. Andrews MID	7			-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
16	33	7	11
H Wright	H Wright	M Ewijk	T Sakamoto

Players	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances
H Wright FWD	16	33	1	1
E Simms FWD	10	26	3	3
B Thomas-Asante FWD	10	19	4	5
E Mason-Clark FWD	7	27	5	5
V Torp MID	7	17	4	6
T Sakamoto FWD	5	17	3	11
J Rudoni MID	5	13	5	4
J Eccles MID	4	12		2
L Kitching DEF	2	13		1
B Thomas DEF	2	11	5	5
J Allen MID	1	2	1	2
K Kesler-Hayden DEF	1	2	1	1
C Rushworth GLK			1	2
M Grimes MID		5	2	6
M Ewijk DEF		1	7	8
J Dasilva DEF			3	3

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
2483	78	180
M Grimes	M Ewijk	L Kitching

Players	passes	tackles	duels won
M Grimes MID	2483	67	144
L Kitching DEF	1527	33	180
B Thomas DEF	1460	28	157
J Dasilva DEF	1456	62	115
C Rushworth GLK	1381		20
M Ewijk DEF	1160	78	137
V Torp MID	851	31	100
J Rudoni MID	769	21	94
E Mason-Clark FWD	530	40	148
T Sakamoto FWD	500	36	115
J Latibeaudiere DEF	493	9	41
J Eccles MID	394	21	81
L Woolfenden DEF	382	8	39
H Wright FWD	305	11	115
J Allen MID	282	12	21
B Thomas-Asante FWD	277	14	71
K Kesler-Hayden DEF	212	15	41
E Simms FWD	210	7	80
J Bidwell DEF	118	4	11
M Brau DEF	63	4	12
K. Andrews MID	35	1	7

Preston Championship squad statistics 2025/2026

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
35	7	5	9
B Whiteman	L Dobbin	B Whiteman	A Hughes

Players	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
A Devine MID	35	6	2	3 -
B Whiteman MID	35	1	5	8 -
O Offiah DEF	34			4 -
J Storey DEF	34	2	2	7 1
T Small DEF	33	3	2	5 -
M Smith FWD	31	3	1	2 -
A Hughes DEF	29			9 -
L Dobbin FWD	29	7	5	2 -
D Jebbison FWD	28	6	2	2 -
D Iversen GLK	26		1	1 -
P Valentín DEF	26		2	2 -
A McCann MID	25	1	1	5 -
L Gibson DEF	22	1		2 -
A Vukcevic DEF	21		2	-
M Osmajic FWD	20	7		3 1
L Lindsay DEF	19			4 1
M Frökjaer-Jensen MID	18	2		-
H. Armstrong MID	17	1	1	3 -
S Thórdarson MID	15		1	3 -
J Thompson MID	13		2	4 -
D Cornell GLK	7			1 -
B Potts DEF	6		1	-
J Walton GLK	3			-
W Keane FWD	2	1		-
N Mawene MID	1			-
R Brady MID	1			-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
7	17	5	9
L Dobbin	A Devine	B Whiteman	B Whiteman

Players	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances
L Dobbin FWD	7	16	5	2
M Osmajic FWD	7	16		1
A Devine MID	6	17	2	6
D Jebbison FWD	6	11	2	3
T Small DEF	3	16	2	3
M Smith FWD	3	7	1
J Storey DEF	2	8	2	2
M Frökjaer-Jensen MID	2	3
B Whiteman MID	1	7	5	9
A McCann MID	1	5	1	2
L Gibson DEF	1	5		1
H. Armstrong MID	1	2	1	1
W Keane FWD	1	1
A Hughes DEF		3		1
D Iversen GLK			1	1
P Valentín DEF			2	2
A Vukcevic DEF			2	1
L Lindsay DEF		2		1
S Thórdarson MID		2	1	2
J Thompson MID		3	2	1
B Potts DEF		3	1	1

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
1641	86	227
B Whiteman	O Offiah	J Storey

Players	passes	tackles	duels won
B Whiteman MID	1641	64	120
A Hughes DEF	1230	44	180
J Storey DEF	1227	42	227
L Gibson DEF	983	25	103
A Devine MID	937	43	94
D Iversen GLK	891		9
O Offiah DEF	765	86	158
A McCann MID	651	70	113
H. Armstrong MID	426	19	67
L Lindsay DEF	411	17	83
P Valentín DEF	396	56	100
L Dobbin FWD	385	15	68
T Small DEF	370	31	80
M Smith FWD	313	14	124
J Thompson MID	282	7	31
D Jebbison FWD	242	17	98
D Cornell GLK	232		5
A Vukcevic DEF	228	16	38
M Frökjaer-Jensen MID	182	11	30
S Thórdarson MID	163	4	18
M Osmajic FWD	156	9	52
B Potts DEF	83	3	18
J Walton GLK	72
R Brady MID	17		4
W Keane FWD	5		1