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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 19 (setup 4, season 27)
Coventry City
v.
Blackburn Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Heurelho Silva GOMES1Mamadou SAMASSA
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Federico FERNÁNDEZ82Joost VAN AKEN
MIGUEL Luís Pinto VELOSO3Patrick VAN AANHOLT
Siem DE JONG4Felipe TEIXEIRA
Laurent KOSCIELNY58Vegard FORREN
Damien PLESSIS666JORGE Filipe Avelino TEIXEIRA
François CLERC777Nicolas MARIN
Matt TAYLOR86Bryan OVIEDO Jiménez
Stefano OKAKA Chuka97Sjoerd ARS
Frederico Chaves Guedes, FRED610Danny GRAHAM
Nacer BARAZITE116Gaizka SAIZAR Lekuona
Manager
Glen JOHNSON12Rhys WILLIAMS
Craig GORDON13David RAYA Martin
Marco FILIPPINI6146MIKEL ALONSO Olano
Nikola SARIC15Peter WHITTINGHAM
Gabriele PUCCIO166Keith TREACY

Coventry City 2 Blackburn Rovers 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 28,554, Stadium: Ricoh Arena, Referee: Thomas DRAGE 6½)
35 Miguel Veloso, 67 Miguel VelosoScorers
69 Plessis <=> FilippiniSubstitutions66 Van Aken <=> Mikel Alonso, 85 Ars <=> Treacy
Sendings off
Bookings7 Teixeira, 16 Jorge Teixeira, 72 Graham
2Corners2
8Fouls12
3Offsides1
8Shots on2
7Shots off7
15Total shots9
6Shots saved2
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: MIGUEL Luís Pinto VELOSO
7TEIXEIRA booked.
11OKAKA's shot was well held by the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
13A penalty box scramble resulted in TEIXEIRA tapping the ball over.
16DRAGE books JORGE TEIXEIRA for an off-the-ball incident against MIGUEL VELOSO.
18OVIEDO hit a deadly shot inches over from long range.
19A free-kick from FRED raced just beyond the far post.
23A header by TAYLOR at the near post was easily collected by the Blackburn Rovers 'keeper.
30DE JONG beat three Blackburn Rovers players and thundered a golden opportunity inches wide.
32OKAKA pulled away from GRAHAM but lashed the ball into the arms of SAMASSA.
35GOAL!! A deep cross by FERNÁNDEZ was met by MIGUEL VELOSO who rushed in to score. (1-0 Coventry City)
43A pin-point pass was collected by BARAZITE and his left foot effort flew narrowly over.
 
47A weak strike from BARAZITE rolled agonisingly wide.
51A cross from TAYLOR left KOSCIELNY in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
55The Blackburn Rovers 'keeper managed to block a wicked shot.
60A fine ball from BARAZITE on the left was collected by MIGUEL VELOSO who scuffed his effort inches over.
61ARS shot over.
67GOAL!! A tackle from GRAHAM gave Coventry City a free-kick twenty yards out which MIGUEL VELOSO thundered past SAMASSA. (2-0 Coventry City)
71KOSCIELNY headed over.
72A bad challenge gets GRAHAM a yellow card.
77A great save prevented OKAKA from scoring an exceptional goal.
81OVIEDO brought the ball past FERNÁNDEZ and rifled a tame shot over the bar.
86TEIXEIRA beat TAYLOR and drilled the ball to OVIEDO who blasted his shot wide.