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3¹	A header from O'HARE was hoofed off the line by RANKIN-COSTELLO.
6¹	O'HARE booked for an off-the-ball incident.
10¹	CHAPLIN rushed a simple chance.
14¹	BROADHEAD headed inches wide.
14¹	HUTCHINSON beat SHEAF and blasted the ball to BISHOP who pulled his shot wide.
18¹	BISHOP poked an easy chance past the righthand post.
21¹	GOAL!! A great dummy from WARD allowed BISHOP to lay a perfect ball off to MEJBRI who thrust the ball over the line. (1-0 Walsall)
31¹	WATTS was put clear by MONTHE and he pulled away from the 'keeper but drilled his shot inches wide.
34¹	BISHOP made space on the left and pulled the ball to MEJBRI who clipped the ball wide.
38¹	A good ball from WARD on the right fell to MEJBRI who mishit his shot inches over.
45¹	O'HARE fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
6²	The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from STERLING fell just over.
9²	GOAL!! A free-kick was palmed away by TURNER, STERLING was first to the loose ball and chipped the ball to O'HARE to hammer in. (1-1)
11²	A mix up in the Coventry City defence enabled BROADHEAD to thump an effort over.
13²	GOAL!! A weak shot from CHAPLIN seemed to hold no problem for the 'keeper but the ball somehow squeezed over the line. (2-1 Coventry City)
16²	WARD floated the ball to RILEY who forced it just beyond the near post.
19²	A pin-point pass found RANKIN-COSTELLO and his deadly effort floated narrowly wide.
21²	CHAPLIN placed a deadly shot inches over from long range.
22²	A weak shot from DOGUKAN trickled agonisingly wide.
28²	BISHOP hoofed the ball wide of the lefthand post from just outside the area.
31²	GOAL!! As RANKIN-COSTELLO was trying to hold back SHEAF the ball fell to BOYÉ who slammed the ball into the roof of the net. (3-1 Coventry City)
42²	MEJBRI dribbled round STERLING and stroked a weak shot wide.

Coventry City

League position:

Home league form:

XWWL

Overall league form:

LXXLWXWL

Formation:

4-3-3

Line-ups

Tomás VACLIK	7	1	6½	Jake TURNER
Dujon STERLING	7½	2	6½	Josh KEY
Junior BROWN	5½	3	7	Joe RANKIN-COSTELLO
Ben SHEAF	7	4	7	Isaac HUTCHINSON
Dom HYAM	8½	5	6½	Emmanuel MONTHE
Jordan STOREY	7	6	6	Kelland WATTS
DOGUKAN Sinik	6	7	7	Joe RILEY
Conor CHAPLIN	7	8	6	Hannibal MEJBRI
^(p)Matt GODDEN	6½	9	6½	Colby BISHOP^(p)
^(f)Callum O'HARE	7	10	5½	Joe WARD^(c,f)
^(c)Lucas BOYÉ	6½	11	6½	Nathan BROADHEAD
	Manager
Amadou BAKAYOKO		12		Nathanael OGBETA
Lee BURGE		13		Glenn MORRIS
Danny BATTH		14		Ben WILLIAMS
Przemyslaw PLACHETA	7½	15		Callum LANG
Maxime BIAMOU		16		Louis JOHN

Walsall

League position:

Away league form:

LLOL

Overall league form:

LWLLOXLW

Formation:

4-3-3

Statistics

Coventry City 3 Walsall 1

(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 16,252, Stadium: Coventry Building Society Arena, Referee: Tony Bates 5½)

O'Hare 9², Chaplin 13², Boyé 31²

Scorers

Substitutions

Sent off

Bookings

Corners

Fouls

Offsides

Shots on

Shots off

Total shots

Shots saved

Possession

Mejbri 21¹

BrownóPlacheta 9²

O'Hare 6¹

55%

45%

¶ Man of the match: Dom Hyam ¶