Another round of action in the Sky Bet Championship season begins on Friday night when two sides who were expected to do good things this term meet at the Racecourse Ground when Wrexham play host to the leaders Coventry City.
Wrexham have made an acceptable start if not particularly spectacular to their maiden season back in the second tier but Coventry are setting the standards and go into this one knowing that they can open up a six point gap at the summit with a win.
Where to watch
The match will be shown live and in full on the Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football channels with the build-up beginning at 7.30pm ahead of the 8pm kick off.
Wrexham
It has been a meteoric rise for Wrexham in the last few years and while they were always going to plateau at some point, even with all the financial support and profile of their owners, if they remain in the Championship this season that would be an acceptable outcome when earlier this decade they were still a non-league club. They invested heavily enough in the summer to suggest that should be the minimum requirement but whether they have enough for more than that remains to be seen.
After three defeats in their opening five matches, Wrexham have found their feet in the Championship and go into this one off the back of just one defeat in their last seven, which includes draws with Birmingham City, Leicester City and Middlesbrough, all of whom are expected to be at the business end of the table, so they are proving hard to beat. A concern would be that they have only kept one clean sheet in their last eight matches but they have scored in 11 of their 12 games which is a huge positive.
Coventry City
After heartbreak in the playoffs last season, Coventry City have come out firing this time around and go into this match top of the table and still undefeated and are looking like they could justify all of the pre-season expectation around them. They will have a flat spot at some point, every team does in the Championship, but to come out and win eight and draw four of their opening 12 games and not having a playoff hangover is very impressive indeed.
You can generally tell how a side is performing by their goal difference and the Coventry one is enormous. They have a goal difference of +25 and when you consider the next best is +9 they are clearly outperforming the league in a big way. All of their attacking numbers are among the best in the league but that isn’t coming to the detriment of their defence, which has been quite miserly having conceded just nine goals in their 12 Championship outings to date.
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Team News
Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson made changes to his side for the midweek cup loss against Cardiff City with the likes of Arthur Okonkwo, Josh Windass, Kieffer Moore and Issa Kabore among the players who will be expected to start here.
Bobby Thomas left the pitch early for Coventry City in their win over Watford last weekend and there has been no update on his fitness. Luke Woolfenden would be the natural replacement for Frank Lampard should the defender miss out.
Betting
This should be a decent watch as most Coventry City matches have been. I would expect Coventry to win the game but going away from home on a dismal Friday night I’m not really sure I want to be getting too involved at odds on, especially when you consider that a pretty average Watford side ran up an xG of 2.61 against the Sky Blues last week and with Coventry potentially missing a key cog in their back line I can let them win if they are good enough to do it.
If Coventry are going to win this match then you would imagine that they are going to need to score twice given that Wrexham have only been kept out once this season. The good thing for the Sky Blues is that they have scored multiple goals in nine of their 12 matches this term including in each of their last six so finding the back of the net is certainly not a problem for them. Wrexham have the fourth worst xGA in the division and have conceded multiple goals on this ground to West Brom, Sheffield Wednesday and QPR this term and although their goals against have dried up, chances having and a ruthless Coventry can take full advantage. The even money on over 1.5 Coventry goals looks the way to play this one.
Tips
Back Coventry – Over 1.5 goals for a 3/10 stake at 2.00 with William Hill
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