Coventry vs Crystal Palace Betting Tips & Preview

Coventry City to win

Coventry City to win this fixture is the call, with the Sky Blues edging it as the most probable outcome on the balance of what's in front of us. It's not a vote of overwhelming confidence - our model has them at just a shade over 50% - but home advantage, a reasonable recent run of wins mixed in with the losses, and a head-to-head record that actually favours Coventry slightly all point the same way. Best price available on the home win is 2.50, which readers can take or leave, but the pick itself is built on Coventry being marginally the likelier side to come out on top, nothing more exotic than that.

Recent Form

Coventry's last five have been a genuine mixed bag. They beat Newcastle United at home, were then turned over by Tottenham away and by Fulham at home, bounced back with a win over Sunderland, and most recently lost away at Everton. Two wins and three defeats in that run, but notably both of those wins came at home, which matters given this one is also at their place.

Crystal Palace's recent form is harder to pin down cleanly. They lost at home to Newcastle, then won away at Fulham, before losing away to Tottenham. Their game against Hoffenheim finished level, and the result of their most recent fixture against Liverpool is unknown from the data available. What we can say is that Palace have only one confirmed win in their last four completed matches, with a draw and the Liverpool result unresolved, so there's no strong sense of them arriving full of momentum.

Head-to-Head

The historical head-to-head between these two sides, based on the last five meetings on record, reads 2-1-2 in Coventry's favour. Coventry won in January 2011 and again in February 2011, while Palace won in August 2011 and back in November 2010, with a draw between the sides in March 2012. It's a dataset that's admittedly quite old and doesn't tell us much about either club's current level, but taken purely as a historical series, Coventry have shaded it.

Team News

Coventry City have two players sidelined. Aurèle Amenda is out with a calf injury, a problem he's carried since mid-September, and Haji Wright remains unavailable through a hamstring injury that's kept him out since August. Both absences have been in place for some time now, so there's no fresh disruption to factor in beyond what's already been a settled situation for weeks.

Crystal Palace's only listed absentee is Chadi Riad, who continues to be out with a knee injury dating back to late August. Beyond that, there's nothing further listed for Palace, and no other notable absences reported for either side beyond the three players named above.