PREVIEW | Coventry City vs Norwich City - team news, lineups, predictions

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·11 de setembro de 2025

PREVIEW | Coventry City vs Norwich City - team news, lineups, predictions

Coventry City take on Norwich City at the Coventry Building Society Arena this Saturday in the EFL Championship.

The hosts currently sit fifth in the table, while Norwich are 11th.

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The Canaries come into this game off the back of an impressive 2-0 win away at Blackburn Rovers, which should give them a boost of confidence. The Sky Blues, meanwhile, were held to a 2-2 draw by Oxford United in their most recent outing.

The last time these two sides met, Norwich came out on top with a 2-1 win.

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Ross Cooper (SkyBlues Extra): The international break is over, amazing! Back to the real stuff and the grind of the Championship as we look to continue our unbeaten and overall positive start to the 25/26 campaign.

We host Norwich City on Saturday at the CBS Arena, the start of this next block of five games until the next internationals and, on paper, this block of games looks considerably harder than what we have had to face so far. So, starting on Saturday against Norwich we will get to really see how the squad is shaping up and whether we can really consider ourselves as contenders to be right up there come May.

We will be without captain, well ex-captain, Ben Sheaf as he completed a deadline day move to Wrexham, but we do welcome in new Central defender, Luke Woolfenden who signed for £4m from Ipswich Town.

It will be interesting to see what Frank Lampard opts to do, selection wise, for the weekend.

The attacking promise has been amazing so far this season with 14 goals scored in 4 matches, but at the other end our defence has been a bit porous and set pieces have been our Achilles heel so far. Hopefully there has been some good work done on the training pitch to help alleviate that particular weakness.

It is important we keep the CBS a fortress this season and challenging games like Saturday will be an opportunity to show how good of a team we are and can be this season.

With Haji Wright, Jack Rudoni and Victor Torp all on real form, they are crucial to how well and effective we are offensively and we will need them on it once again if we are to come away with the three points this weekend.

Prediction: 2-1

Daniel Oliveira (Playmaker Stats editor): Norwich’s season has got off to a patchy start. Wins away at Blackburn and Portsmouth show they can get results on the road, but home defeats to Middlesbrough and Millwall highlight defensive weaknesses. They’ll need to stay solid at the back to cope with Coventry’s considerable attacking threat.

Coventry have been scoring freely, with big wins over QPR and Derby showing their firepower. But their vulnerabilities, including draws against Oxford and Hull, could be exploited by Norwich.

It could be an open, high-scoring game where both sides struggle defensively. However, you'd have to say the Sky Blues look more likely to come out on top.

Prediction: 3-2