83rd Game Between City And Leeds

Published: 13 Feb 2012 - 00:01:33

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A look at City v Leeds

Tomorrow night will see the 83rd league and cup game between Coventry City and Leeds United.

City have won 17 and drawn 22 of those matches. They have scored 84 goals compared to Leeds 134.

The last time, Leeds visited the Ricoh Arena on November 8th 2010. A bumper crowd of 28,184 saw goals from Howson and Snodgrass give Leeds a 2-0 first half lead. Lukas Jutkiewicz pulled one back in the 51st minute only for Max Gradel to convert a penalty ten minutes later. Ben Turner hit a second for City in the 63rd minute but Leeds won 3-2.

The teams that day were:

City: Westwood, Keogh, Cranie (Baker 84), Wood, Turner, Clingan, Gunnarsson, Carsley, McSheffrey, Platt (King 30), Jutkiewiciz SNU Ireland, McPake, Doyle, Clarke, O’Donovan

Leeds Brown, Connolly, Collins, Gradel (Hughes 69), Kilkenny (Somma 83), Howson, Faye (Johnson 61), Becchio, Snodgrass, McCartney, O’Brien. SNU Bruce, Sam, Nunez, Higgs.

This will be Leeds fourth visit to the Ricoh Arena. They have won one, drawn one and lost one game. City's biggest win against Leeds was a 4-0 victory on Sept 12 1981. Leeds have also scored four goals in Coventry, that was in a Premier League game on September 11th 1999 in a 4-3 win.

For details of matches between Coventry & Leeds, please click on http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadhed.asp