H2H: Middlesbrough vs Coventry – Prediction (Championship

H2H: Middlesbrough v Coventry – Comparison.

George Saville could set a career-best scoring run with a goal here, having scored the opener in Middlesbrough’s last two games. Coventry’s Matthew Godden has scored three of their six league goals this term, including their only away goal. Middlesbrough are unbeaten in ten of their last 12 league H2Hs vs promoted opposition (W6, D4, L2). Half of those games ended 1-0 either way.

Middlesbrough Insights.

Neil Warnock’s Middlesbrough are now unbeaten in six Championship games since their opening day defeat at Watford (W2, D4, L1). Despite that, this is still a worse seven-game start than in four of their last five Championship campaigns, a start that has seen six of their seven league games produce under 2.5 goals (1.57 per match on average). Though Middlesbrough are yet to lose at the Riverside this Championship campaign (W1, D2), they’ve picked up just five of their 22 Championship points since Warnock’s appointment here (W1, D2, L3). However, the veteran manager is unbeaten in six of his last seven home H2Hs with Coventry City (W3, D3, L1), with five of the last six witnessing both teams score.

Coventry Insights.

Visiting Coventry hit the proverbial self-destruct button last time out, as they had a man sent off and lost 4-0 to Blackburn. That was their fourth league defeat of the season and they are just one of two sides to have already received two red cards. However, they were at least drawing at HT in six of their seven league games so far, with four 1-1 at the break. The step-up to the Championship has been tough on the ‘Sky Blues’, and they travel here without a goal in 233 minutes of away league play. However whilst the visitors’ last second-tier campaign saw 19 winless away games before victory, they did manage a 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough in the opening weeks.