📏 Form Guide

Coventry City

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Coventry City will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-1 Championship losing effort in their last game against Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Coventry City had 63% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Coventry City was Josh Eccles (53'). At the other end, Queens Park Rangers got 15 attempts on goal with 8 of them 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 suffering a loss in their previous game against Sheffield United in Championship action, Oxford United and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Oxford United managed 30% possession and 6 shots at goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Oxford United was Myles Peart-Harris (13'). Sheffield United had 11 shots 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

Delving into their past head to head meetings going back to 31/08/2019 shows that these fixtures have been disappointments for Oxford United. They’ve not been able to get any wins at all whereas Coventry City have been superior, getting wins in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 29 in all at an average of 4.83 goals per match.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was Championship match day 4 on 30/08/2025 and the score finished Oxford United 2-2 Coventry City.

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

Coventry City got 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Haji Wright (12') and Victor Torp (37') scored.

The referee was Ruebyn Ricardo.

📋 Team News: Coventry City

We are thinking that The Sky Blues will probably go for a 4-2-3-1 system this time featuring 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 are inclined to think that The U's seem most likely to play in a 3-4-3 formation, choosing 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, 15:06 04/02/2026