City Looking To Stop Preston's Good Ricoh Record

20 December 2012 00:21
A look at City V Preston matches

Saturday will see the 34th league and cup game between Coventry City and Preston North End.

Of the previous 33 matches, City have won nine and drawn ten, scoring 50 goals to Preston's 53.

The sides last met at the Ricoh Arena on September 25th 2010 and City went down to a 2-1 defeat. Goals from Billy Jones and Iain Hume put the Lillywhite 2-0 up before Aron Gunnarsson reduced the arrears on the hour mark in front of a crowd of 14,945.

The teams that day were:City: Westwood, Keogh, Cranie, Wood, Turner, Gunnarsson (Bell 60), Baker (King 52), Clingan, Carsley, Jutkiewicz (Ward 75), Platt SNU Ireland, Doyle, McSheffrey, Cameron

Preston Lonergan, Davidson, St Ledger, Brown (Morgan 35), Coutts (Parry 63), Tracey (Gray 69), Barton, Hume, Jones, Russell, Parkin. SNU Arestidou, Hayes, Mayor, McLaughlin.

Preston have a good record at the Ricoh Arena, with three wins, two draws and one loss. Their overall record of matches played in Coventry is won five, draw four, lost seven.

The sides have never met in a third tier game before

More: http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/next/vs/match/index.shtml

Source: Coventry MAD

Source: FOOTYMAD