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2¹ EBOSELE's shot beat OKOYE but rebounded off the Birmingham City upright. 5¹ A neatly crafted pass from HØJBJERG was drove goalbound by SUNJIC only for the 'keeper to palm clear. 17¹ GALENO floated the ball to FALCAO who flicked it over the bar. 29¹ OKOYE was able to block a tame shot from GALENO. 30¹ A corner found GALENO who flicked the ball over the bar. 34¹ A tame shot from FREY trickled agonisingly wide. 35¹ GOAL!! A nice run by AOUAR on the left was capped by a great cross which RODRIGO MUNIZ nodded in at the near post. (1-0 Coventry City) 42¹ The motionless STRAKOSHA was all agog as a backpass from EBOSELE dropped just over. 44¹ A strike from RODRIGO MUNIZ held no problem for OKOYE. 3² RODRIGO MUNIZ headed inches wide. 6² FALCAO's shot was well held by the 'keeper. 12² GOAL!! A block from the 'keeper enabled FALCAO to glance the ball into the empty net. (2-0 Coventry City) 15² A shot from HØJBJERG was smothered by the Coventry City 'keeper. 18² GOAL!! On the right wing RODRIGO MUNIZ collected a defender's clearance and hit it across the goalmouth for EBOSELE to hammer it home. (3-0 Coventry City) 19² A left foot shot from FREY was saved by the 'keeper. 20² FREY hit a deadly shot just wide from long range. 26² A penalty box scramble resulted in LLORENTE driving a low shot wide. 28² GALENO scuffed a simple chance. 35² ARMSTRONG made space on the left and pulled the ball to FREY who clipped the ball wide. 37² A mix up in the Birmingham City defence enabled ALMIRON to volley an effort inches over. 41² A pin-point pass was collected by GALENO and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide. 45² GALENO fired the ball through a ruck of players but OKOYE was a match for it as he dived to his left.

Coventry City   League position: 5 Home league form: OXWW Overall league form: WOWXWLWL Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Thomas STRAKOSHA 7½ 1 7½ Maduka OKOYE Festy EBOSELE 8  2 7½ Cesar AZPILICUETA(c) Aaron HICKEY 7  3 6  Emmanuel LONGELO Houssem AOUAR 8½ 4 7  Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG Diego LLORENTE 7  5 7  Luke McNALLY Ross SYKES 6  6 6  Tin PLAVOTIC Miguel ALMIRON 7½ 7 6½ Jordan JAMES Wenderson GALENO 8  8 6½ Indiana VASSILEV (p)RODRIGO MUNIZ Carvalho 6½ 9 6½ Michael FREY(p) (f)SERGI ROBERTO Carnicer 5½ 10 6  Ivan SUNJIC(f) (c)Radamel FALCAO 6½ 11 5½ Sinclair ARMSTRONG Manager Miro MUHEIM    12    Lukas JUTKIEWICZ Joe LUMLEY    13    Pierluigi GOLLINI JOSÉ Manuel ARNÁIZ 6  14    Nico GORDON Ryan YATES    15    Josh McEACHRAN Jesper DALAND    16    Marc ROBERTS

Birmingham City   League position: 13 Away league form: WLXW Overall league form: LWWLXLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Coventry City 3 Birmingham City 0 (Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 31,917, Stadium: Coventry Building Society Arena, Referee: Goran Markov 6) Rodrigo Muniz 35¹, Falcao 12², Ebosele 18² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   Sergi RobertoóJosé Arnáiz 19²           5 5 2 11 7 1 8 5 10 6 18 11 5 4 55% 45% ¶ Man of the match: Houssem Aouar ¶