Match Centre: Coventry City vs Preston North End
Player of the match Matt Grimes 8.5
GolVolt rating 2.1GolVolt rating
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Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Settled by 34′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 34′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 0.7 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 4.1 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Title race. Stakes: 6.9 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances. Quality of play: 8.5 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 2.1more watchable than 21% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
3 goals
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 17' Goal: Tatsuhiro SakamotoCoventry City1:0
- 34' Goal: Brandon Thomas-AsanteCoventry City2:0
- Half-time · 2:0
- 46' 2 substitutionsDobbin for JebbisonThompson for McCann
- 50' Goal: Matt Grimespenalty3:0
- 61' 3 substitutionsEsse for SakamotoKesler-Hayden for van EwijkTorp for Onyeka
- 65' 2 substitutionsMoran for DevinePotts for Valentín
- 66' SubstitutionEccles for Mason-Clark
- 73' SubstitutionVukcevic for Small
- 79' SubstitutionMarkelo for Thomas-Asante
- Full-time · 3:0
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Coventry City
Preston North End
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Coventry City
- 13 Ben Wilson GK —
- 20 Kaine Kesler-Hayden DEF on
- 21 Jake Bidwell DEF —
- 8 Jamie Allen MID —
- 14 Romain Esse MID on
- 28 Josh Eccles MID on
- 29 Victor Torp MID on
- 11 Haji Wright ATT —
- 24 Jahnoah Markelo ATT on
Preston North End
- 13 David Cornell GK —
- 3 Andrija Vukcevic DEF on
- 6 Liam Lindsay DEF —
- 15 Jordan Andrew Thompson MID on
- 23 Andrew Moran MID on
- 34 Kitt Nelson MID —
- 44 Brad Potts MID on
- 17 Lewis Dobbin ATT on
- 24 Michael Smith ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- The Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Coventry City Matt Grimes
- 2. place · Coventry City Romain Esse
- 3. place · Coventry City Carl Rushworth
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