Match Info

Championship - Round 27

Date: 17 January 2026, Saturday 🏁 Finished

Location: Coventry Building Society Arena (Coventry) 🌤️ ...

Referee: Smith L. (Eng)

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	Coventry City		Leicester City

	1	X	2
	1.56	4.2	5.25	Watch
	1.58	4.25	5.39	Watch
	1.6	4.32	5.13	Watch
	1.6	4	5
	1.58	4.15	5.16	Watch
	1.58	4.33	5.33
Avarage Now (Initially)	1.58 ↓ (1.62)	4.21 ↑ (4.1)	5.21 ↑ (5.1)

The most likely Over/Under: 2.75

The best margin for this event is 5.1%, offered by

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Current Win Probability

Coventry City
59.5%

Draw
22.4%

Leicester City
18.1%

Initial Probability (when we started the analysis)

58.4%

23.1%

18.5%

Our Initial ML Estimation

60.4%

22%

17.6%

Analysis of Changes in Winning Probabilities:

Coventry City has improved its chances compared to the initial analysis. (+1.1%)

Leicester City has seen a decrease in its chances compared to the initial analysis. (-0.4%)

ML Model estimates a higher probability for Coventry City than the current prediction. (+0.9%)

ML Model estimates a lower probability for Leicester City than the current prediction. (-0.5%)

Who will win by Users?

1	X	2
60%	20%	20%

Coventry City - Leicester City Predictions

Users Predictions: 19 users predict this event. Coventry will win (votes: 12 - 63.2%). Leicester will win (votes: 4 - 21.1%). It will Tie (votes: 3 - 15.8%).
Confidence interval (95%) for Coventry: 41.5% – 84.9%.

Verified Performance Core (Selected Experts): 4 Selected Experts predict this event. Coventry (votes: 2 - 50%). Leicester (votes: 1 - 25%). Tie (votes: 1 - 25%).

Over/Under & Asian Handicap Predictions by Selected Experts:

AH +1.5 - Leicester (1.51) (votes: 1 - 100%) .

BTTS - yes (votes: 1 - 100%) .

O/U 3 - over (votes: 1 - 100%) .

Overall Expert Consensus (including all markets): 5 Selected Experts predict this event. Coventry (votes: 2 - 40%). Leicester (votes: 2 - 40%). Tie (votes: 1 - 20%).

Expected Score (Market Odds): 1:0

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Lineups

Starting Lineups
19. Rushworth C. (G) 27. van Ewijk M. 22. Latibeaudiere J. 15. Kitching L. 3. Dasilva J. 5. Rudoni J. 6. Grimes M. (C) 10. Mason-Clark E. 29. Torp V. 14. Esse R. 9. Simms E.	1. Stolarczyk J. (G) 21. Pereira R. (C) 5. Okoli C. 4. Nelson B. 33. Thomas L. 6. James J. 22. Skipp O. 7. Fatawu I. 14. De Cordova-Reid B. 10. Mavididi S. 9. Ayew J.
Substitutes
8. Allen J. 21. Bidwell J. 28. Eccles J. 7. Sakamoto T. 23. Thomas-Asante B. 13. Wilson B. (G) 26. Woolfenden L. 11. Wright H. 18. Yang Min-Hyuk	56. Aluko O. 31. Begovic A. (G) 17. Choudhury H. 20. Daka P. 28. Monga J. 25. Page L. 24. Soumare B. 39. Thomas S. 23. Vestergaard J.
Coaches
Lampard F.	Cifuentes M.

Key Events of the Match

1st Half (0 - 1)
10', 0 - 1, James J. ⚽, De Cordova-Reid B. (A),
2nd Half (2 - 0)
47', 1 - 1, Simms E. ⚽, Rudoni J. (A),
67', Esse R. ↓, Sakamoto T. ↑,
67', Simms E. ↓, Wright H. ↑,
70', De Cordova-Reid B. ↓, Page L. ↑,
70', Ayew J. ↓, Daka P. ↑,
72', Torp V. ↓, Eccles J. ↑,
79', Mavididi S. ↓, Monga J. ↑,
83', Rudoni J. ↓, Thomas-Asante B. ↑,
85', Monga J. 🟨,
85', 2 - 1, Wright H. ⚽,
88', Okoli C. 🟨,
90+1', Skipp O. ↓, Soumare B. ↑,
90+1', Pereira R. ↓, Thomas S. ↑,
90+3', James J. 🟨,
90+5', Thomas S. 🟨,
90+7', Dasilva J. 🟨,

Preview

One team leads the standings, the other sits mid-table (ranked 1 in the zone Promotion ~ Premier League and 12).

Coventry is going through a rough patch (last 5 games: 1 wins).

In recent matches, Leicester has shown inconsistent performance (in the last 5 games, wins – 3).

In this match, Coventry is the team to beat.

There will not play in Coventry: Dovin O. (Knee Injury) Kesler-Hayden K. (Inactive) Thomas-Asante B. (Hamstring Injury) Torp V. (Inactive)

There will not play in Leicester: Kristiansen V. (Knock) Soumare B. (Knee Injury) Souttar H. (Achilles Tendon Injury)

There are questionable in Leicester: Ramsey A. (Injury) Vestergaard J. (Injury) Winks H. (Injury)

In the last 4 head-to-head matches, Coventry won 1 match, drew 1 match, lost 2 matches, and goals 4:5. (average 1:1.3).

Including home match between the teams, Coventry won 1 match, drew 0 matches, lost 0 matches, and goals 3:1.

Last Results with these Odds

Coventry City - the odds 1.62 are the expected chance of winning is 58.38%, but this team recently wins 88% of matches with these odds.

Form

✺ - easy match; ✺ - difficult match;

- Coventry City
English FA Cup
10.01.26	Stoke City - Coventry City	1:0 ✺
English League Championship
04.01.26	Birmingham City - Coventry City	3:2 ✺
01.01.26	Charlton Athletic - Coventry City	1:1 ✺
29.12.25	Coventry City - Ipswich Town	0:2 ✺
26.12.25	Coventry City - Swansea City	1:0 ✺
Form Coefficient (based on results and difficulties of last matches) - 1.5 LLTLW
- Leicester City
English FA Cup
10.01.26	Cheltenham Town - Leicester City	0:2 ✺
English League Championship
05.01.26	Leicester City - West Bromwich Albion	2:1 ✺
01.01.26	Sheffield United - Leicester City	3:1 ✺
29.12.25	Leicester City - Derby County	2:1 ✺
26.12.25	Leicester City - Watford	1:2 ✺
Form Coefficient (based on results and difficulties of last matches) - 7.2 WWLWL

Latest Head to Head

English League Championship
20.09.25	Leicester City - Coventry City	0:0
13.01.24	Coventry City - Leicester City	3:1
06.08.23	Leicester City - Coventry City	2:1
03.03.12	Leicester City - Coventry City	2:0

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