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Crystal Palace face a trip to Coventry City at Coventry Arena on Wednesday afternoon, hoping to improve upon an average previous return from this fixture. Of the 45 games played, Eagles have recorded 12 wins, and Coventry City have come away with 21 victories.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was less than a year ago, in January 2007, as the visitors ran out cosy 2 - 4 winners in a Championship match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2007/2008 | Tue 18 Sep | Crystal Palace | 1 - 1 | Coventry City | CHMP |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 13 Jan | Coventry City | 2 - 4 | Crystal Palace | CHMP |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 23 Sep | Crystal Palace | 1 - 0 | Coventry City | CHMP |
| 2005/2006 | Tue 22 Nov | Crystal Palace | 2 - 0 | Coventry City | CHMP |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 15 Oct | Coventry City | 1 - 4 | Crystal Palace | CHMP |
| 2005/2006 | Tue 20 Sep | Crystal Palace | 1 - 0 | Coventry City | LGEC |
| 2003/2004 | Sun 09 May | Coventry City | 2 - 1 | Crystal Palace | CHMP |
Recent respective form guides
Coventry City's poor home run has seen them win just 1 and draw 2 of the last six. While Sky Blues have scored 4, a worringly large 9 have been leaked at the other end.
Crystal Palace's away form is none too clever either, unbeaten in the last six, but with four of them resulting in draws. The Eagles's have a narrow positive goal difference over these games, with 6 goals for and 4 against.
Coventry City find themselves struggling down in 16th position in the league having picked up 29 points from their 22 matches. Crystal Palace's 31 points from 23 games sees them lie inside the top half of the table, in 10th position.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Coventry City | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Crystal Palace | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Crystal Palace are in reasonable form away from home coming into this match, and the Madmen are quite confident that they should come away with a comfortable victory from this contest. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Coventry City | Failed to win in previous 5 home matches. Not won in the 2 most recent games. |
| Crystal Palace | Undefeated in last 6 away games. 11 games since last defeat. |