Coventry City vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 14 - Tuesday 4th November 2025 - 20:00 - Coventry Building Society Arena
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[fifty shades of blade]

Long way to go but the cocky cov fans getting all upset, lets see if their players have the bollox to come back

 

[The Crab]

Xg 5th highest since Wilder came in.

Suggests we are actually doing something well considering some people's thoughts on here

XG won’t keep us up though.

Winning still the only stat that matters.

Good so far tonight

 

[BangorBlade]

unable to watch tonight, what formation has Wilder gone for? Is Cannon alongside Campbell? O’Hare as a 10 or back out wide?

Not sure if it's 4-4-2 changing to a 4-3-3

 

[fifty shades of blade]

All over big scary cov

 

[Sheffsteel]

Almost scored there…great move.

Hey can you believe it….Cannon has been OK and touched the ball a few times.

 

[JustLookin]

HMS Piss the League finally ready to set sail

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Mcguinness is awful. His defensive positioning is terrible.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

XG won’t keep us up though.

Winning still the only stat that matters.

Good so far tonight

Obviously but shows some of the total doom is a bit ott.

 

[Sheffsteel]

unable to watch tonight, what formation has Wilder gone for? Is Cannon alongside Campbell? O’Hare as a 10 or back out wide?

Campbell up front and Cannon on the right but he’s coming more central every now and then.

Basically we playing with zero pressure tonight and you can see there’s no nerves. Coventry are playing an open attacking game and you can see our attacking players are enjoying the space and freedom.

H-T 0-1 to the Blades.

We’ve played quite well, been an even game with both teams finding themselves in good situations.

It could easily be 2-2 at half time.

Our best player of the half has probably been Sam McCallum, showed some good composure in defence and bits of skill when attacking.

O’Hare also been his busy self and up front Campbell and Cannon have been decent…both running around and trying to score.

My only fear is this season we tend to have a good half and a bad half. That was probably our good half.

 

[BangorBlade]

Good 1st half performance, early balls in, pressing attacking in a block.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Need another goal and Coventry do look a level above anything we have played this year but 45 minutes to try and get a huge 3 points isn't to be sniffed at

 

[espoo blade]

Almost scored there…great move.

Hey can you believe it….Cannon has been OK and touched the ball a few times.

Amazing what happens when he's not all alone up top. Good run down the right and pass to Peck. Just a shame the defender tood the sting out of Peck's shot.

 

[The Crab]

Obviously but shows some of the total doom is a bit ott.

As is some of the blind adulation

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

Two up front has GOT to be the way now. Create chances, look dangerous on the break, with good llnk up play in the final third. And most of all, it was enjoyable to watch.

 

[Shazza]

Doom and gloom merchants on here make me fuckin sick.

 

[Working Class Hero]

It looks like a genuine two up top to me.

Cannon has barely touched the ball, the fewest touches of any player on the pitch, but just him being there as part of a pair is clearly giving the opposition more to think about.

 

[espoo blade]

Mcguinness is awful. His defensive positioning is terrible.

Also an absolutely shocking attempt to clear the ball that went straight to their guy while playing himself out of the game!

 

[Pintor75]

Lets hope Lamps doesn't do a Hecky and gee them up,second half, 2 up is better though Campbell not much better imo, don't sit back and try to protect the lead, keep doing what we're doing

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[BangorBlade]

Mcguinness is awful. His defensive positioning is terrible.

I'd like to see Zatterstrome on the bench instead of Bindon

 

[AWetFlannel]

Which were the plum jobs, in your opinion?

Derby - big club, given one of the biggest budgets in the division without parachute payments, managed to get top Chelsea loanees in but finished 6th.

Chelsea - one of the biggest clubs in the country, serial trophy winners with a squad of about 100 to pick from. Won fuck all, then got the job again as interim and did even worse.

Everton - established PL club, large squad and wage bill.

Coventry - brilliantly ran, on the up, expensively assembled squad. Good underlying stats when Robins was sacked, everything going against them, was bound to turn around. No pressure first season, we'll see how he does this season (well so far).

No teams struggling with no money, battling against relegation, in League 2, despite failing everywhere he's been.

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Can we, for the first time this season, put two good halves in one game? It would do a lot for their confidence. And ours!!

 

[toledo]

Middle of defense on corners and crosses is a little scary …

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[bakeblade]

Good 1st half performance, early balls in, pressing attacking in a block.

We've been pretty much mistake free, but just started to make a few towards the end of the half.
We need to keep concentrating and don't go too deep. Promising half, can we keep it up?

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

This defence will concede at least 3 in the second half so not sure what everyone’s excited about.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

Best half of football this season.

All those slagging off Wilder (of which I've been guilty of) need to come out and recognise that!

 

[Granada Blade]

 

[bakeblade]

It looks like a genuine two up top to me.

Cannon has barely touched the ball, the fewest touches of any player on the pitch, but just him being there as part of a pair is clearly giving the opposition more to think about.

He came into the game last 10

 

[luffenhamblade]

This defence will concede at least 3 in the second half so not sure what everyone’s excited about.

I mean, they might, but to say they will is one huge assertion! Anything could happen from here.