Coventry City 3-2 Stoke City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 8 March 2025

Result

Coventry City 3-2 Stoke City

Championship · Saturday 8 March 2025, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

Coventry City · Stoke City · Championship predictions

Coventry City 3-2 Stoke City: match report

Coventry City beat Stoke City 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 8 March 2025. The half-time score was 2-0.

Victor Torp opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Coventry City's goals came from Victor Torp (22'), Victor Torp (31') and Bobby Thomas (90+7'). Stoke City scored through Sam Gallagher (65') and Sam Gallagher (86').

Discipline: Coventry City received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Coventry City were 5th on 53 points from 35 and Stoke City 20th on 36 points from 35. Coventry City went on to finish that season 5th with 72 points, and Stoke City 18th with 51.

Coventry City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sam Gallagher of Stoke City (8.9), ahead of Victor Torp (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Coventry City wins, 3 draws and 3 for Stoke City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Victor TorpCoventry City · 1-0
  • 31'Goal · Victor TorpCoventry City · 2-0
  • 65'Goal · Sam GallagherStoke City · 2-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Ashley PhillipsStoke City
  • 86'Goal · Sam GallagherStoke City · 2-2
  • 89'Yellow card · Matt GrimesCoventry City
  • 90'Yellow card · Wouter BurgerStoke City
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Junior TchamadeuStoke City
  • 90+7'Goal · Bobby ThomasCoventry City · 3-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Coventry City 4, draws 3, Stoke City 3.

Team news

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

Oliver Dovin, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jay Dasilva, Victor Torp, Matt Grimes, Josh Eccles, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Ellis Simms, Ephron Mason-Clark

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

Viktor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Ashley Phillips, Ben Wilmot, Enda Stevens, Ben Pearson, Wouter Burger, Lewis Koumas, A. Moran, Jun-ho Bae, Ali Al-Hamadi