Coventry City vs Wrexham - prediction, team news, lineups

Coventry City play big to Wrexham connected Sunday day having already secured promotion to the Premier League and the Championship title.

However, Wrexham marque the travel to the CBS Arena knowing that triumph successful their last 2 matches could spot them warrant sixth spot - and a playoff spot - successful the Championship table.

Match preview

While Coventry person posted draws successful 3 of the past 4 games, it matters small with Frank Lampard's broadside present crowned arsenic league champions.

The accomplishment is afloat deserved, a effect of the Sky Blues starring the mode for overmuch of the campaign, and they sealed the rubric successful benignant with the 5-1 thrashing of Portsmouth connected Tuesday night.

Although Coventry volition extremity the play with the lowest title-winning points tally successful 4 seasons, Lampard volition instrumentality pridefulness successful the 90 goals - astatine slightest 13 much than each different squad - that person been scored crossed 44 games frankincense far.

This crippled volition beryllium a solemnisation of what they achieved, yet Lampard volition privation to spot Coventry adhd a 17th location triumph from 23 matches and further adhd to their tally of 52 points.

Despite dropping points successful conscionable six specified matches, 2 of those instances person travel since March 14, portion Coventry person kept conscionable 2 cleanable sheets successful the astir caller six contests astatine the CBS Arena.

That volition lone connection encouragement to a Wrexham outfit that has recorded back-to-back victories successful the Championship for the archetypal clip since the extremity of February.

Furthermore, uncommon successive cleanable sheets person been kept successful the 2-0 triumph implicit Stoke City and the 1-0 triumph astatine Oxford United successful midweek.

Wrexham stay level connected points with Hull City, holding a +2 amended extremity difference, and they are successful enactment to decorativeness sixth if they tin extremity the play with wins implicit their adjacent opponents and fifth-placed Middlesbrough.

Phil Parkinson knows that volition beryllium to beryllium a pugnacious ask, yet Wrexham's distant grounds successful their archetypal twelvemonth backmost successful this part is under-rated with 34 points coming from 22 fixtures connected their travels.

They besides person the second-best distant antiaircraft return, shipping conscionable 25 goals during those encounters.

Coventry City Championship form:

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Wrexham Championship form:

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Team News

Despite promotion being secured, Lampard volition sanction a beardown Coventry XI against opponents with thing to play for.

However, the likes of Jake Bidwell, Victor Torp, Brandon Thomas-Asante and Ellis Simms are each options to beryllium recalled.

Joel Latibeaudiere whitethorn besides instrumentality successful the centre of defence having remained arsenic an unused substitute connected Tuesday.

Barring immoderate caller wounded issues, Parkinson could prime the aforesaid Wrexham starting lineup from the triumph astatine the Kassam Stadium.

Nevertheless, Issa Kabore is an enactment to regenerate Ryan Longman astatine close wing-back, portion Lewis O'Brien and Kieffer Moore are some alternatives successful midfield and attack.

Liberato Cacace remains connected the sidelines and is seemingly facing a contention against clip to retrieve successful clip to correspond New Zealand astatine the 2026 World Cup.

Coventry City imaginable starting lineup:

Rushworth; Van Ewijk, Thomas, Latibeaudiere, Bidwell; Onyeka, Torp; Esse, Thomas-Asante, Mason-Clark; Simms

Wrexham imaginable starting lineup:

Ward; Hyam, Scarr, Doyle; Kabore, Dobson, James, Rathbone, Thomason; Windass; Smith

We say: Coventry City 2-2 Wrexham

With nary unit connected Coventry, the shackles are disconnected and that whitethorn lone pb to goals astatine some ends. However, we inactive consciousness that a Wrexham broadside who are backmost connected an upward trajectory volition bash capable to gain a stock of the spoils successful an entertaining game.

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