Coventry City 2-3 Watford: result and report

Championship · Saturday 25 April 2009

Result

Coventry City 2-3 Watford

Championship · Saturday 25 April 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Coventry City 2-3 Watford: match report

Coventry City were beaten by Watford 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 25 April 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Freddy Eastwood opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Coventry City's goals came from Freddy Eastwood (10') and R. Simpson (54'). Watford scored through Mark Smith (58'), Grzegorz Rasiak (61') and T. Priskin (74').

Discipline: Coventry City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Watford received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Coventry City were 15th on 54 points from 44 and Watford 17th on 52 points from 44. Coventry City went on to finish that season 17th with 54 points, and Watford 13th with 58.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Coventry City win, 0 draws and 4 for Watford.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Freddy EastwoodCoventry City · 1-0
  • 43'Yellow card · Marcus HallCoventry City
  • 54'Goal · R. SimpsonCoventry City · 2-0
  • 58'Missed penalty · Mark SmithWatford
  • 58'Goal · Mark SmithWatford · 2-1
  • 61'Goal · Grzegorz RasiakWatford · 2-2
  • 73'Yellow card · Ben TurnerCoventry City
  • 74'Goal · T. PriskinWatford · 2-3
  • 82'Red card · Danny FoxCoventry City

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Coventry City 1, draws 0, Watford 4.

Team news

Watford expected line-up

Ben Foster, Daniel Shittu, Jordan Stewart, Lloyd Doyley, Jay DeMerit, Douglas Rinaldi, Gavin Mahon, Alhassan Bangura, Damien Francis, Tommy Smith, Marlon King