Coventry City 3-1 Watford: result and report

Championship · Saturday 25 October 2025

Result

Coventry City 3-1 Watford

Championship · Saturday 25 October 2025, 11:30 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Coventry City 3-1 Watford: match report

Coventry City beat Watford 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 25 October 2025. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Brandon Thomas-Asante opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Coventry City's goals came from Brandon Thomas-Asante (3'), Jamie Allen (7') and Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (42'). Watford scored through Imrân Louza (69', penalty).

Discipline: Coventry City received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Coventry City were 1st on 25 points from 11 and Watford 12th on 15 points from 11. Coventry City went on to finish that season 1st with 95 points, and Watford 16th with 57.

Coventry City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Watford in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Imrân Louza of Watford (8.0), ahead of Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (7.9).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Brandon Thomas-AsanteCoventry City · 1-0
  • 7'Goal · Jamie AllenCoventry City · 2-0
  • 42'Goal · Tatsuhiro SakamotoCoventry City · 3-0
  • 44'Red card · James AbankwahWatford
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Mamadou DoumbiaWatford
  • 62'Yellow card · Luke WoolfendenCoventry City
  • 69'Penalty goal · Imrân LouzaWatford · 3-1
  • 76'Yellow card · Milan van EwijkCoventry City
  • 85'Yellow card · Liam KitchingCoventry City
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Nestory IrankundaWatford

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Coventry City 3, draws 5, Watford 2.

Team news

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

Carl Rushworth, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jay Dasilva, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Jamie Allen, Matt Grimes, Ephron Mason-Clark, Haji Wright, Brandon Thomas-Asante

Watford line-up (4-3-3)

Egil Selvik, Jeremy Ngakia, Kévin Keben, James Abankwah, Marc Bola, Moussa Sissoko, Imrân Louza, Edo Kayembe, Kwadwo Baah, Mamadou Doumbia, Rocco Vata