Coventry City -- 15th, 40 GP, -9 GD, 52 points v. QPR -- 20th, 40 GP, -14 GD, 43 points ------ 7 April 2007 Ricoh Arena ------ 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. [R] in this thread for all Championship matches.
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.
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.
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.
Camp with a nice one handed save, then he went after the free ball outside the box and cleared it away.
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.
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.
Another good goal for us as Luton has given up another and is now 0-2 down at home against Southampton.
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!
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.
Second change for Coventry as Robert Page comes on for Colin Hawkins. Immediately thereafter, the R's bring on Marc Nygaard for Paul Furlong.
Pat Kanyuka was down with a head injury, but Coventry wouldn't put it out of play. Cullip had a few words for Coventry about that. Kanyuka is back on. Just a minute later, Camp cleanly grabbed a free kick.
A yellow card was issued to Coventry's Robert Page. Edited to correct -- Michael Doyle got the card. After a nice run of pressure from QPR, it looks like Coventry is beginning to come back into it. Coventry brings on their final sub -- Kevin Kyle for Michael Mifsud.