📊 Form Guide

Coventry City

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Coventry City will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-1 Championship defeat in their last game at the hands of Queens Park Rangers.

In that game, Coventry City had 63% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Coventry City was Josh Eccles (53'). At the other end, Queens Park Rangers had 15 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Richard Kone (66') and Nicolas Madsen (73') scored for Queens Park Rangers.

At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Coventry City have taken part. Opposing sides scored 10 times in this period whereas Coventry City managed to get a total of 8.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Coventry City:

• have not been beaten in the league by Oxford United in their previous 4 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

Oxford United

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After being beaten in their last game against Sheffield United in Championship competition, Oxford United and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Oxford United managed 30% possession and 6 shots on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Oxford United was Myles Peart-Harris (13'). At the other end, Sheffield United had 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Sydie Peck (41'), Andre Brooks (66') and Chiedozie Ogbene (83') scored for Sheffield United.

The forward players for Oxford United have had real problems scoring goals over their previous 6 games, netting the disappointing return of only 4. In those fixtures, The U's have also seen the overall goal aggregate against them equal 4. That trend might not be carried forward into this game, however.

👥 Head to head

Looking over past results between these clubs stretching back to 31/08/2019 tells us that these fixtures have been pretty painful for Oxford United. They’ve not managed to come away with any wins whatsoever while Coventry City have remained in the ascendancy, winning in 67% of those games played.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 29 overall which averages out at 4.83 goals per match.

The last league encounter between the two was Championship match day 4 on 30/08/2025 when it ended Oxford United 2-2 Coventry City.

On that day, Oxford United managed 36% possession and 14 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Goals were scored by Will Lankshear (19') and Cameron Brannagan (75').

For their opponents, Coventry City got 15 shots on goal with 6 on target. Haji Wright (12') and Victor Torp (37') scored.

The match was refereed by Ruebyn Ricardo.

📰 Team News: Coventry City

In all likelihood, The Sky Blues look set to opt for a 4-2-3-1 system, beginning the first half with Carl Rushworth, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jay Dasilva, Matt Grimes, Josh Eccles, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Jack Rudoni, Haji Wright and Ellis Simms.

📋 Team News: Oxford United

We’re of the thinking that The U's might make use of a 3-4-3 formation, giving starts to Jamie Cumming, Sam Long, Ben Davies, Ciaron Brown, Brodie Spencer, Jamie McDonnell, Cameron Brannagan, Jack Currie, Myles Peart-Harris, Stanley Mills and Mark Harris.

🔮 Prediction

For this match, we think that Coventry City will probably stay in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of the chances that they create.

At the other end, Oxford United may well find it hard to break down their defence although we do reckon that they could well end up scoring as well.

Our selection here is for a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning score for Coventry City at full-time.

Andre Moura, 02:02 04/02/2026