Coventry City 1-2 Scunthorpe United: result and report

League One · Saturday 30 January 2016

Result

Coventry City 1-2 Scunthorpe United

League One · Saturday 30 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Coventry City 1-2 Scunthorpe United: match report

Coventry City lost to Scunthorpe United 1-2 in the League One on Saturday 30 January 2016. The half-time score was 0-1.

Tom Hopper opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Coventry City's goal came from Adam Armstrong (86', penalty). Scunthorpe United scored through Tom Hopper (9') and Murray Wallace (62').

Discipline: Coventry City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Scunthorpe United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Coventry City were 5th on 48 points from 28 and Scunthorpe United 16th on 35 points from 27. Coventry City went on to finish that season 8th with 69 points, and Scunthorpe United 7th with 74.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Coventry City wins, 2 draws and 5 for Scunthorpe United.

Going into the match Coventry City's last five read L-L-D-W-D and Scunthorpe United's W-L-D-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Tom HopperScunthorpe United · 0-1
  • 62'Goal · Murray WallaceScunthorpe United · 0-2
  • 76'Yellow card · Romain VincelotCoventry City
  • 86'Penalty goal · Adam ArmstrongCoventry City · 1-2
  • 88'Second yellow · Romain VincelotCoventry City
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Gary McSheffreyScunthorpe United

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Coventry City 3, draws 2, Scunthorpe United 5.

Team news

Coventry City line-up

Reice Charles-Cook, Chris Stokes, Martin Lorentzson, Samuel Ricketts, Peter Ramage, Romain Vincelot, James Maddison, Gaël Bigirimana, Noel Hunt, Adam Armstrong, Jacob Murphy

Scunthorpe United line-up

Luke Daniels, S. Wiseman, David Mirfin, Conor Townsend, Murray Wallace, Luke Williams, Neal Bishop, Stephen Dawson, Jamie Ness, Paddy Madden, Tom Hopper