Coventry City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

League One · Saturday 27 October 2018

Result

Coventry City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers

League One · Saturday 27 October 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Coventry City 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Coventry City won against Doncaster Rovers 2-1 in the League One on Saturday 27 October 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Jordy Hiwula opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Coventry City's goals came from Jordy Hiwula (21') and Luke Thomas (41'). Doncaster Rovers scored through Joe Wright (69').

Discipline: Coventry City received no yellow cards; Doncaster Rovers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Coventry City were 8th on 24 points from 15 and Doncaster Rovers 7th on 25 points from 15. Coventry City went on to finish that season 8th with 65 points, and Doncaster Rovers 6th with 76.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Coventry City wins, 3 draws and 2 for Doncaster Rovers.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Yellow card · Herbie KaneDoncaster Rovers
  • 21'Goal · Jordy HiwulaCoventry City · 1-0
  • 41'Goal · Luke ThomasCoventry City · 2-0
  • 69'Goal · Joe WrightDoncaster Rovers · 2-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Tom AndersonDoncaster Rovers

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Coventry City 3, draws 3, Doncaster Rovers 2.

Team news

Coventry City line-up

Lee Burge, Dujon Sterling, Junior Brown, Tom Bayliss, Jordan Willis, Tom Davies, Luke Thomas, Michael Doyle, Jonson Clarke-Harris, Conor Mark Chaplin, Jordy Hiwula

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Marko Marosi, Matty Blair, Danny Andrew, Ben Whiteman, Joe Wright, Tom Anderson, Ali Crawford, Herbie Kane, John Marquis, James Coppinger, Mallik Wilks