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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 1 (setup 2, season 18)
Coventry City
v.
Walsall
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
SERGIO ASENJO Andrés71Angus GUNN
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
21
Callum DOYLE62Jonjoe KENNY
Jake BIDWELL737Jordan ZEMURA
Maximilian ARNOLD746Scott ALLAN
Stefan SAVIC857Grant HANLEY
Rolando MANDRAGORA766Danny BATTH
Jamie ALLEN7Lasse VIGEN Christensen
Federico BERNARDESCHI8Kenny McLEAN
Andrea BELOTTI79Conor WILKINSON
Carlos VINICIUS Alves Morais10Charlie TAYLOR
Tyler WALKER11Andy WILLIAMS
Manager
Josh PASK12Danny WILSON
Simon MOORE13Karl DARLOW
GUSTAVO Hamer14George DOBSON
Callum O'HARE715Josh GINNELLY
Víctor Machín Pérez, VITOLO6167Harry PICKERING

Coventry City 5 Walsall 0
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 27,210, Stadium: Coventry Building Society Arena, Referee: Darren DRYSDALE 7)
2 Belotti, 5 Bernardeschi, 13 Bernardeschi, 52 Mandragora, 55 ViniciusScorers
59 Allen <=> Vitolo, 77 Bidwell <=> O'HareSubstitutions70 McLean <=> Pickering
Sendings off73 Williams
Bookings20 Taylor, 29 Williams, 76 Wilkinson, 79 Batth
4Corners6
2Fouls10
3Offsides5
7Shots on4
12Shots off3
19Total shots7
2Shots saved4
55%Possession45%
Man of the match: Federico BERNARDESCHI
2GOAL!! As MCLEAN was attempting to hold back SAVIC the ball dropped to BELOTTI who lashed the ball into the net. (1-0 Coventry City)
5GOAL!! A delightful dummy from ARNOLD allowed MANDRAGORA to lay an exceptional ball off to BERNARDESCHI who glanced the ball into the net. (2-0 Coventry City)
13GOAL!! A mishit clearance dropped to MANDRAGORA who mishit a shot goalward, luckily BERNARDESCHI was on hand to hit the ball into the net. (3-0 Coventry City)
14ARNOLD headed over.
16A deadly shot from BERNARDESCHI was pushed round the post by the 'keeper.
20DRYSDALE yellow cards TAYLOR for a clinical challenge.
29The ref yellow cards WILLIAMS for an off-the-ball incident against MANDRAGORA.
32A twenty-five yard drive from BELOTTI caused GUNN no problem.
33A pin-point pass found ARNOLD and his right foot effort floated narrowly over.
45BELOTTI shot wide.
 
52GOAL!! A deep cross by VINICIUS was met by MANDRAGORA who rushed in to score. (4-0 Coventry City)
55GOAL!! A tackle from ZEMURA gave Coventry City a free-kick on the edge of the area which VINICIUS thundered past GUNN. (5-0 Coventry City)
57A penalty box scramble resulted in ARNOLD knocking the ball over.
64Uncertainty in the Walsall defence enabled DOYLE to blast an effort over.
65An exceptional effort from WALKER scraped the woodwork.
73WILLIAMS shown the red card for a bad tackle.
76WILKINSON booked for a clinical tackle on BIDWELL.
79The referee books BATTH.
81SERGIO ASENJO was able to block a weak header from PICKERING.
82A free-kick from BELOTTI raced inches wide.
84The bemused 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from VITOLO dropped just over.
86TAYLOR's shot beat SERGIO ASENJO but rebounded off the Coventry City post.