Saturday will see Coventry City taking on Blackpool for the 14th time in a game played in Coventry.
City have won six of those meetings with three draws and four defeats
City’s biggest win against Blackpool is a 3-1 win which they did in 1923 and in 2007. .
The last time the sides met at the Ricoh Arena was on Tuesday September 27th 2011 in a 2-2 draw. Gareth Taylor Fletcher put Blackpool ahead after seventeen minutes but City levelled through Gary Deegan in the 78th minute. Lukas Jutkiewicz had City ahead in the 82nd minute but in the first minute of stoppage time, a crowd of 12.822 saw Keith Southern score for a share of the points.
The teams that night were:
City: Murphy, Keogh, Hussey (Christie 66), Cranie, Cameron, Bell (Deegan 63), Clingan, McSheffrey, Thomas, Jutkiewicz, O’Donovan (Platt 78) SNU Dunn, McDonald.
Blackpool: Gilks, Cathcart, Crainey, Baptiste, Evatt (M.Phillips 79), Southern, Ferguson, Angel (Eardley 58), Sutherland, Taylor-Fletcher (Bogdanovic 70), K.Phillips. SNU Ince, Howard.