Coventry City 4-1 Southampton: result and report
Championship · Saturday 4 October 2008
Result
Coventry City 4-1 Southampton
Championship · Saturday 4 October 2008, 16:20 UTC · half-time 2-0
Coventry City 4-1 Southampton: match report
Coventry City beat Southampton 4-1 in the Championship on Saturday 4 October 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.
Jay Tabb opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Coventry City's goals came from Jay Tabb (19'), Leon McKenzie (33'), Leon Best (47') and Jay Tabb (87'). Southampton scored through Andrew Surman (63').
Discipline: Coventry City received 1 yellow card; Southampton received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Coventry City were 18th on 12 points from 9 and Southampton 19th on 11 points from 9. Coventry City went on to finish that season 17th with 54 points, and Southampton 23rd with 45.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Coventry City wins, 5 draws and 1 for Southampton.
Going into the match Coventry City's last five read L-D-W-D-D and Southampton's W-W-D-D-L.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Leon Best
- 19'Goal · Jay Tabb
- 28'Missed penalty · E. Ward
- 33'Goal · Leon McKenzie
- 36'Yellow card · Kelvin Davis
- 42'Yellow card · L. James
- 47'Goal · Leon Best
- 63'Goal · Andrew Surman
- 87'Goal · Jay Tabb
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton expected line-up
Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap