Everton vs Coventry City Preview

Everton have beaten Newcastle twice in a week, and four days after the second of those wins they face Coventry City at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Friday night. It will be the first competitive meeting between the clubs since January 2001. Everton are seventh in the Premier League on 13 points, four ahead of 16th-placed Coventry. The visitors come in off a 3-1 home win over Sunderland on Saturday. Kick-off is at 8pm GMT.

Monday’s 1-0 win at Newcastle was Everton’s second win over the same opponents in a week, after a 3-1 home victory in the Carabao Cup that took them through. Before that, they lost 2-0 at Arsenal and 2-0 at home to Chelsea, and the oldest result is a 2-2 draw at Hull. That makes two wins, a draw and two defeats, with six goals scored and seven conceded. Everton failed to score in both defeats, and the Newcastle win was their only league clean sheet in the sample. They have had just four days to prepare for this one, two fewer than Coventry.

Coventry have three wins and two defeats from their last five, scoring nine and conceding six. Saturday’s 3-1 home win over Sunderland ended a two-game losing run, which comprised a 1-0 home defeat to Fulham and a 3-1 loss at Tottenham. Further back, they beat Newcastle 4-1 at home and won 1-0 at Nottingham Forest. Seven of their nine goals came in the two home wins over Sunderland and Newcastle.

Coventry have the better of the five meetings in the sample, with three wins to Everton’s one and a draw, although only the three oldest were competitive. The most recent was a 3-0 Coventry win in a pre-season friendly in July 2024, and before that the sides drew 2-2 in a 2009 friendly. In the Premier League, Everton won 3-1 at Coventry in January 2001, a month after Coventry had won 2-1 away at Everton, while Coventry won 1-0 at home in March 2000. Friday’s game at the Hill Dickinson Stadium will be the first competitive meeting between the clubs in more than 25 years.

Everton sit seventh in the Premier League on 13 points, four ahead of 16th-placed Coventry City on nine. An Everton win would take them to 16 points, level with fourth-placed Chelsea.

In the UK, the match is live on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League, with streaming on NOW and Sky Go and radio commentary on TalkSport Radio UK. In the USA, it’s on USA Network, with fuboTV among the streaming options, while Canadian viewers can watch on DAZN Canada or fuboTV Canada.

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