3 COV

0 PRE

COV 3

0 PRE

Coventry
-
Preston

Championship, Round 37
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 8:00 PM
The Coventry Building Society Arena

Result

3-0

Match Recap

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto 17'

Brandon Thomas-Asante 34'

Matt Grimes (pen.) 50'

Match Events

Second Half 3 - 0

Jahnoah Markelo

Brandon Thomas-Asante

79'

73'

Andrija Vukčević

T. Small

J. Eccles

Ephron Mason-Clark

66'

65'

Brad Potts

Pol Valentín

65'

A. Moran

A. Devine

K. Kesler-Hayden

Milan van Ewijk

61'

V. Torp

F. Onyeka

61'

R. Esse

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto

60'

Matt Grimes

Penalty Goal

50'

46'

L. Dobbin

Daniel Jebbison

46'

Jordan Thompson

Alistair McCann

First Half 2 - 0

Brandon Thomas-Asante

Goal

34'

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto

Goal

17'

Match Statistics

Ball Possession

67%

33%

Total Shots

Shots on Goal

Corners

Expected Goals (xG)

4.00

0.44

Match Information

Information	Value
League	Championship
Season	Championship 2025/26
Round	Round 37
Date	March 11, 2026
Time	20:00
Venue	The Coventry Building Society Arena
Result	3 - 0

Lineups

Coventry

19. C. Rushworth Carl Rushworth

27. M. v. Ewijk Milan van Ewijk

26. L. Woolfenden Luke Woolfenden

15. L. Kitching L. Kitching

3. J. Dasilva J. Dasilva

16. F. Onyeka F. Onyeka

6. M. Grimes Matt Grimes

7. T. Sakamoto Tatsuhiro Sakamoto

23. B. Thomas-Asante Brandon Thomas-Asante

10. E. Mason-Clark Ephron Mason-Clark

9. E. Simms E. Simms

9. D. Jebbison Daniel Jebbison

28. M. Osmajić Milutin Osmajić

21. A. Devine A. Devine

4. B. Whiteman Benjamin Whiteman

8. A. McCann Alistair McCann

26. T. Small T. Small

16. A. Hughes Andrew Hughes

14. J. Storey Jordan Storey

42. O. Offiah Odeluga Offiah

2. P. Valentín Pol Valentín

1. D. Iversen Daniel Iversen

Preston

Substitutes

Coventry

Preston

Unused Players

Coventry

Preston

Form before the match

Coventry

Preston

Previous Fixtures

Championship 2025/26

December 9, 2025

Preston

Coventry

Championship 2024/25

February 22, 2025

Coventry

Preston

October 19, 2024

Preston

Coventry

Championship 2023/24

February 23, 2024

Coventry

Preston

November 4, 2023

Preston

Coventry

Championship

	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Promotion
1	Coventry	41	25	9	7	84	42	42	84
2	Ipswich	39	20	12	7	69	40	29	72
Promotion Playoffs
3	Middlesbrough	41	20	12	9	62	41	21	72
4	Millwall	41	21	9	11	56	47	9	72
5	Hull City	41	20	8	13	63	58	5	68
6	Wrexham	40	17	13	10	62	53	9	64

7	Southampton	39	17	12	10	63	48	15	63
8	Derby	41	18	9	14	60	51	9	63
9	Norwich	41	17	7	17	55	48	7	58
10	Watford	41	14	15	12	52	49	3	57
11	Bristol City	41	16	9	16	52	51	1	57
12	QPR	41	16	9	16	58	63	-5	57
13	Stoke City	41	15	9	17	48	45	3	54
14	Preston	41	13	15	13	48	52	-4	54
15	Swansea	41	15	9	17	49	54	-5	54
16	Birmingham	41	14	11	16	49	52	-3	53
17	Sheffield Utd	41	15	6	20	57	58	-1	51
18	Charlton	41	12	13	16	38	49	-11	49
19	Blackburn	41	12	11	18	37	49	-12	47
20	West Brom	41	11	12	18	42	56	-14	45
21	Portsmouth	40	10	12	18	40	57	-17	42
Relegation
22	Leicester	41	11	14	16	54	63	-9	41
23	Oxford United	41	9	14	18	39	54	-15	41
24	Sheffield Wednesday	41	1	10	30	25	82	-57	-5

Updated March 11, 2026 9:53 PM