Game Number Thirty Between City And Colchester

05 September 2013 00:16
A Look at City's record against Colchester in 'home' matches

Sunday's League One game will be the 30th meeting between Coventry City and Colchester United. 

In those 29 league and cup matches between the two sides, Coventry have won fourteen with eight draws, scoring 47 goals to Colchester's 34.

Of the fifteen matches played in Coventry, City have won nine and drawn five with one 4-2 defeat on January 26th 1957.  City's biggest home win was the 3-0 League Cup victory at Highfield Road on September 11th 2002. and there was a 3-1 home win in 1960

Last season's League One game finished in a 2-2 draw, watched by a crowd of 9,431.  The goal scorers were Gavin Massey 39, Michael Smith 71, Callum Wilson 76, Carl Baker 91. and the team line ups were as follows:

City: Murphy (GK), Dickinson, Edjenguele, Martin, Christie, Jennings, Bailey, McSheffrey (Fleck 72), Baker (c), Moussa (Wilson 72), McDonald. Subs: Dunn (GK), Thomas, Bell, Willis, Stewart.

Colchester United: Walker (GK), Garmston (Compton 89), Okuonghae, Morrison (Lapado 84), Bond, Wilson, Massey, Smith (White 76), Porter, Thompson, Clifford. Subs: Cousins (GK), Wright, Heath, Bean.

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

Source: Coventry MAD

Source: FOOTYMAD