Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Coventry City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 31 January 2026

Result

Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Coventry City

Championship · Saturday 31 January 2026, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Queens Park Rangers · Coventry City · Championship predictions

Queens Park Rangers 2-1 Coventry City: match report

Queens Park Rangers beat Coventry City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 31 January 2026. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Josh Eccles opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from Richard Kone (66') and Nicolas Madsen (73'). Coventry City scored through Josh Eccles (53').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 1 yellow card; Coventry City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 13th on 40 points from 29 and Coventry City 1st on 58 points from 29. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 15th with 58 points, and Coventry City 1st with 95.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Coventry City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nicolas Madsen of Queens Park Rangers (8.5), ahead of Matt Grimes (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Queens Park Rangers wins, 1 draw and 5 for Coventry City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Yellow card · Richard KoneQueens Park Rangers
  • 53'Goal · Josh EcclesCoventry City · 0-1
  • 66'Goal · Richard KoneQueens Park Rangers · 1-1
  • 73'Goal · Nicolas MadsenQueens Park Rangers · 2-1
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Josh EcclesCoventry City
  • 90+5'Yellow card · Bobby ThomasCoventry City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 4, draws 1, Coventry City 5.

Team news

Unavailable

  • Ziyad LarkecheQueens Park Rangers · injury (Cruciate Ligament Injury)

Queens Park Rangers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joe Walsh, Ronnie Edwards, Jimmy Dunne, Steve Cook, Rhys Norrington-Davies, Isaac Hayden, Nicolas Madsen, Karamoko Dembélé, Harvey Vale, Paul Smyth, Richard Kone

Coventry City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Carl Rushworth, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jay Dasilva, Josh Eccles, Matt Grimes, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Jack Rudoni, Ephron Mason-Clark, Ellis Simms