Prediction Championship - Coventry City vs Ipswich Town

Championship - Coventry City vs Ipswich Town
Match Time: 01-05-2024 03:00 Wednesday (GMT+8)
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Coventry City

Facing their fourth game in just 10 days at the end of a crazy 2023-24 campaign, Coventry City were only able to force a share of the spoils as they travelled to relegation-threatened Blackburn Rovers on Saturday afternoon, when the Sky Blues were up against it to avoid a fourth straight loss in the Championship.

Following a rather lacklustre first period, Coventry centre-back Liam Kitching was the recipient of his marching orders for the third time this season - the most a single player has collected during a season in the club's history - but the 10-man visitors were able to keep Sammie Szmodics and Rovers at bay until the end.

Heading into the final two matches of the campaign, Mark Robins's side are currently occupying ninth position in the second-tier standings, eight points behind sixth-placed West Bromwich Albion, who will be looking to keep Hull City in seventh at bay on the last day of the season.

A positive for the Sky Blues on Saturday was that they managed to collect their eighth clean sheet of the campaign, with the West Midlands outfit performing significantly worse in defence compared to when they reached the playoff final at Wembley last term against Luton Town.

Back-to-back matches at the Coventry Building Society Arena will bring the curtain down on a pulsating but ultimately successful season for Robins's troops, who have fared reasonably well at their Midlands base over the course of the term, losing just four times in 21 Championship contests.

Ipswich Town

Despite extending their winless run in the Championship to four matches on Saturday night at the MKM Stadium, Ipswich Town are still in an unbelievable position to secure automatic promotion to the Premier League within the next week following a pulsating 3-3 draw with Hull City.

As a consequence of the Tractor Boys taking the lead on three separate occasions in Yorkshire courtesy of a George Hirst strike and Omari Hutchinson's sensational brace, there will be regrets that they were unable to hold on for all three points, with Hull's Noah Ohio netting an 87th-minute equaliser.

That being said, Kieran McKenna's charges still have their promotion fate in their own hands heading into the final two matches of the regular season, with four points from matches against Coventry and League One-bound Huddersfield Town enough to guarantee a spot in the top two.

A point in Yorkshire versus Liam Rosenior's Tigers meant that the Tractor Boys have now reached the 90-point mark in back-to-back EFL campaigns following their second-placed finish in League One last term - a feat that cannot be dismissed whatever happens over the next week.

Ipswich are unbeaten in four matches at the Coventry Building Society Arena stretching back to January 2011, and the Tractor Boys will be looking to secure maximum points from the Sky Blues this season after winning the reverse fixture 2-1 at Portman Road in early December.

Prediction: Coventry City 1-3 Ipswich Town