Coventry City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 28 September 2010

Result

Coventry City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers

Championship · Tuesday 28 September 2010, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

Coventry City · Doncaster Rovers · Championship predictions

Coventry City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Coventry City won against Doncaster Rovers 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 28 September 2010. It was 1-1 at half-time.

A. Gunnarsson opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Coventry City's goals came from A. Gunnarsson (2') and Gary McSheffrey (86'). Doncaster Rovers scored through Billy Sharp (43').

Discipline: Coventry City received 1 yellow card; Doncaster Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Coventry City were 12th on 11 points from 8 and Doncaster Rovers 9th on 12 points from 8. Coventry City went on to finish that season 18th with 55 points, and Doncaster Rovers 21st with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Coventry City wins, 1 draw and 1 for Doncaster Rovers.

Going into the match Coventry City's last five read L-W-L-D-L and Doncaster Rovers's L-D-W-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · A. GunnarssonCoventry City · 1-0
  • 43'Goal · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers · 1-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Billy SharpDoncaster Rovers
  • 86'Goal · Gary McSheffreyCoventry City · 2-1
  • 87'Yellow card · Gary McSheffreyCoventry City

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Coventry City 2, draws 1, Doncaster Rovers 1.

Team news

Coventry City line-up

Keiren Westwood, Richard Keogh, Martin Cranie, Ben Turner, Richard Wood, Sammy Clingan, Aron Gunnarsson, Marlon King, Daniel Ward, Lee Kevin Carsley, Clive Platt

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Neil Sullivan, George Friend, Shelton Martis, Sam Hird, Martin Woods, John Oster, James Coppinger, Patrick McCarthy, James O'Connor, Adam Brian Lockwood, Dean Shiels