Coventry City v. QPR (7 April: Championship Match 41) [R]

[Atouk]

Coventry City -- 15th, 40 GP, -9 GD, 52 points
v.
QPR -- 20th, 40 GP, -14 GD, 43 points
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7 April 2007
Ricoh Arena
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Wow. Lee Cook, Michael Mancienne, and Inigo Idiakez miss out due to injury. Steve Lomas, Marc Nygaard, and Marcus Bignot drop to the bench. Pat Kanyuka, Sampsa Timoska, Paul Furlong, Jimmy Smith (wow), and Stefan Moore (triple wow) are in the starting lineup.

Starting XI: Camp; Timoska, Cullip, Stewart, Kanyuka; Moore, Smith, Bolder, Ainsworth; Furlong, Blackstock.

Bench: Cole, Bignot, Nygaard, Ricketts, Lomas.

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[Atouk]

Bolder with a decent long-distance shot that went wide.

Good news elsewhere as Ipswich got a goal against Barnsley.

Decent chance for Coventry just now. Lee Camp snuffed out a good opportunity. Subsequent header was headed down on a free header, but the shot was blocked.

Then Ainsworth took a shot across the face of goal from about 25 yards out.

[Atouk]

Birmingham 0-0 Burnley
Ipswich 1-0 Barnsley
Leeds 0-0 Plymouth
Luton 0-0 Southampton

Elsewhere, Palace has an early lead on Preston, Sunderland has taken a lead against Wolves, and Stoke has scored against West Brom.

[Atouk]

Kuqi with a second goal for Palace. Back to back bad trips to London for PNE.

West Brom gifted Stoke an own goal so the Baggies are now 0-2 down, also.

[Atouk]

Camp with a nice one handed save, then he went after the free ball outside the box and cleared it away.

[Atouk]

Another free header for Coventry on a corner, but Ward's shot went wide. Come on, Rangers!

[Atouk]

Good news elsewhere as Plymouth has taken a 1-0 lead at Leeds.

Stoke has a third goal against WBA.

[Atouk]

Stewart gets a yellow.

Just a minute later Camp was forced to make another save.

[QPR Kevin H]

Come on you R's!

We could really make a move with a point... or three!

[QPR Kevin H]

Ipswich 2 - Barnsley nil

[Atouk]

More good news as Southampton has scored to take a 1-0 lead against Luton.

But some bad news... Healey scored for Leeds, so it's 1-1 against Plymouth.

We've reached the half in our game, 0-0.

[Atouk]

Possession in our game is roughly equal (match tracker has it 54/46 for Coventry), but Coventry has had most of the decent chances. Four shots on target for them (to none for the R's) and Camp has had to make four or five plays. Coventry also leads in corners, 4-1.

[Atouk]

Another good goal for us as Luton has given up another and is now 0-2 down at home against Southampton.

[QPR Kevin H]

Possession in our game is roughly equal (match tracker has it 54/46 for Coventry), but Coventry has had most of the decent chances. Four shots on target for them (to none for the R's) and Camp has had to make four or five plays. Coventry also leads in corners, 4-1.
Thanks for updates. Could be a tough 45 minutes

[Atouk]

GOAL QPR!!! Smith scores on the rebound!

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Great run by Bolder down the right who sent in a nice ball. Furlong's shot was saved, Moore's effort was saved off the line, then Smith knocked in the rebound! 1-0!

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Dowie makes a change as he sends on Leon McKenzie for Andrew Whing.

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Gregory makes our first change: Bignot on; Timoska off.

[QPR Kevin H]

Great run by Bolder down the right who sent in a nice ball. Furlong's shot was saved, Moore's effort was saved off the line, then Smith knocked in the rebound! 1-0!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Atouk]

Good work from Moore who dispossessed his man, he sent the ball to Furlong, who sent it to Blackstock. Blackstock's shot was over the bar.