In a mid week match in week 19, on Tue Nov 1st, Blackburn Rovers and Coventry City will play a match in Coventry in a Championship match. In their last match, Coventry City recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Cardiff City. Viktor Gyökeres scored the first goal for Coventry City in the 34th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Cardiff City couldn’t muster any offence and Coventry City ran away with the shutout win. Coventry City looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while in Blackburn Rovers’s last match they recorded a 2-1 win against Middlesbrough. Darragh Lenihan struck first for Blackburn Rovers on an own goal in the 4th minute, then Sam Gallagher added another in the 17th minute on a feed from Dominic Hyam. Blackburn Rovers is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches.
This match will be the first time these two teams face eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 2 draws apiece.
Blackburn Rovers’s most prolific scorer has been Ben Brereton. He has netted two goals over the last five matches.