Coventry City 3:0 Preston North End: xG & match report · Championship

Wednesday, 11/03/2026 at 21:00

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Match report · Championship

Coventry City Home 4.00 xG · 25 shots

Preston North End Away 0.44 xG · 5 shots

30 The scoreline reflected the chances

Goals

17' Tatsuhiro Sakamoto Coventry City · 0.03 xG chance 1–0
34' Brandon Thomas-Asante Coventry City · 0.60 xG chance 2–0
51' Matt Grimes (pen.) Coventry City · 0.82 xG chance 3–0

The shots behind it

Coventry City Preston North End

Shots: 25; 5
On target: 9; 2
Inside the box: 15; 3
xG per shot: 0.17; 0.09
Open play xG: 1.63; 0.34
Set-piece xG: 1.79; 0.10
Penalties: 1; 0

Shot-level xG may differ from the published match total

The provider publishes the match total separately from its shot-by-shot values. Those values are rounded to two decimals and, leaving out penalties and own goals, add up to its non-penalty xG: 3.41 for Coventry City and 0.44 for Preston North End.

Shot map

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All shots

30 shots · 4.69 xG

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Last 6 · xG per match

Coventry City

1.59 xG created 0.93 xGA

D 2.09 created, 0.12 conceded against Oxford United
W 1.79 created, 1.17 conceded against Middlesbrough
W 1.16 created, 0.79 conceded against West Bromwich Albion
W 0.64 created, 1.68 conceded against Sheffield United
W 2.33 created, 0.21 conceded against Stoke City
W 1.51 created, 1.64 conceded against Bristol City

Preston North End

0.75 xG created 1.36 xGA

W 0.58 created, 1.23 conceded against Portsmouth
D 0.65 created, 0.91 conceded against Watford
L 0.12 created, 1.06 conceded against Blackburn Rovers
D 1.77 created, 1.55 conceded against Swansea City
L 0.43 created, 1.66 conceded against Millwall
L 0.93 created, 1.74 conceded against Oxford United

xG created xG conceded (xGA) W / D / L: the match result

Head to head

Coventry City: 0 won · 1 drawn · 0 lost

Preston North End 1:1 Coventry City 09/12/2025 xG 0.29 – 1.95

Model details

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