Coventry City 1-2 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 19 October 2010
Result
Coventry City 1-2 Cardiff City
Championship · Tuesday 19 October 2010, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Coventry City 1-2 Cardiff City: match report
Coventry City lost to Cardiff City 1-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 19 October 2010. The half-time score was 1-1.
Peter Whittingham opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Coventry City's goal came from Gary McSheffrey (44'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (5', penalty) and Jay Bothroyd (87').
Discipline: Coventry City received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Coventry City were 7th on 18 points from 11 and Cardiff City 2nd on 23 points from 11. Coventry City went on to finish that season 18th with 55 points, and Cardiff City 4th with 81.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Coventry City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Cardiff City.
Going into the match Coventry City's last five read W-D-W-L-W and Cardiff City's W-W-D-W-L.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · Ben Turner
- 5'Penalty goal · Peter Whittingham
- 44'Goal · Gary McSheffrey
- 60'Yellow card · Sammy Clingan
- 87'Goal · Jay Bothroyd
Head-to-head
Team news
Coventry City line-up
Keiren Westwood, Richard Keogh, Martin Cranie, Ben Turner, Richard Wood, Sammy Clingan, Aron Gunnarsson, Gary McSheffrey, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Lee Kevin Carsley, Clive Platt
Cardiff City line-up
Tom Heaton, Kevin McNaughton, Lee Naylor, Gábor Gyepes, Peter Whittingham, C. Burke, Oluwaseyi Olofinjana, Michael Chopra, Craig Bellamy, Mark Hudson, Jay Bothroyd