Coventry City 2-1 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Saturday 22 February 2025

Result

Coventry City 2-1 Preston North End

Championship · Saturday 22 February 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Coventry City · Preston North End · Championship predictions

Coventry City 2-1 Preston North End: match report

Coventry City beat Preston North End 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 22 February 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Jack Rudoni opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Coventry City's goals came from Jack Rudoni (30') and Bobby Thomas (37'). Preston North End scored through Will Keane (82').

Discipline: Coventry City received no yellow cards; Preston North End received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Coventry City were 8th on 47 points from 33 and Preston North End 15th on 42 points from 33. Coventry City went on to finish that season 5th with 72 points, and Preston North End 20th with 50.

Coventry City lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Preston North End in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Bobby Thomas of Coventry City (8.3), ahead of Jack Rudoni (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Coventry City wins, 2 draws and 8 for Preston North End.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Goal · Jack RudoniCoventry City · 1-0
  • 37'Goal · Bobby ThomasCoventry City · 2-0
  • 65'Yellow card · Liam LindsayPreston North End
  • 82'Goal · Will KeanePreston North End · 2-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Coventry City 0, draws 2, Preston North End 8.

Team news

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Coventry City line-up (3-4-2-1)

Oliver Dovin, Milan van Ewijk, Jack Rudoni, Jake Bidwell, Liam Kitching, Bobby Thomas, Josh Eccles, Matt Grimes, Ellis Simms, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Ephron Mason-Clark

Preston North End line-up (3-5-2)

Freddie Woodman, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Jayden Meghoma, Andrew Hughes, Lewis Gibson, Ryan Porteous, Ryan Ledson, Ali McCann, Milutin Osmajic, Sam Greenwood, Stefán Teitur Thórdarson