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Fulham vs Coventry is an English matchup whose cited Championship meetings show how sharply expectation can be overturned. Coventry won 4–1 at the Coventry Building Society Arena in October 2021, then won 3–1 at Craven Cottage in April 2022. Those results make Coventry a credible challenger against Fulham’s stronger platform during that campaign. A future meeting will ask whether Fulham can protect home control or Coventry can repeat their disruptive approach.
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes Fulham
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14F
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19F
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25M
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23D
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21G
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3D
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24M
Coventry Substitutes
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D
20
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M
41
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F
9
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F
30
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G
13
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M
36
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G
44
Match events
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20'⚽T. Ream Own Goal
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24'⚽V. Gyökeres Normal Goal (Asst: C. O'Hare)
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42'Fankaty Dabo Yellow Card
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46'B. De Cordova-Reid N. Chalobah
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61'Ben Sheaf Yellow Card
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65'Simon Moore Yellow Card
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74'Rodrigo Muniz N. Kebano
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75'J. Onomah N. Williams
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80'Gustavo Hamer Yellow Card
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81'Harry Wilson Yellow Card
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82'⚽B. De Cordova-Reid Normal Goal (Asst: J. Onomah)
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90' +3⚽C. O'Hare Normal Goal (Asst: G. Hamer)
Stats for this game
Matchup Fulham VS Coventry
Coventry have changed the script
Coventry beat Fulham 4–1 at the Coventry Building Society Arena on 2 October 2021 in the Championship. Sky Sports described four Coventry goals in a remarkable second-half spell, a scoreline that shows how a close game can become decisive when the underdog’s attacks arrive together. On 10 April 2022, Coventry won 3–1 at Craven Cottage, again leaving Fulham without the expected home reward. The two results provide clear evidence of a challenger capable of turning pressure into a substantial margin.
Fulham’s response is the durable question
Fulham’s route in a new meeting is to establish control earlier and prevent Coventry from converting transitions into a run of chances. Coventry’s route is to stay compact, accept periods without the ball and wait for the moments that changed both cited contests. The scores do not describe every phase, but they do show that venue alone has not protected Fulham. A future meeting will be interesting if Fulham turns its greater platform into a controlled result or if Coventry again exposes the space between expectation and execution.