City Looking For Their First Home Win Against Port Vale Since 1959

Saturday will see Coventry City taking on Port Vale for the fifteenth time in Coventry with one game at Sixfields.

City have won only of the games, which included a 5-1 win in 1924/25 with six draws  draws and six defeats, scoring 15 goals to Port Vale’s twenty.

Coventry have not beaten Port Vale at ‘home’ since March 16^th 1959 when City won 1-0 as they did the season before. In 1921, City won 4-1.

Last season, City, in Tony Mowbray’s first game in charge, were beaten 3-2 at home by Vale. Jim O’Brien gave City a fourth minute lead. Tom Pope equalised in the 40^th minute with former City winger Mark Marshall putting Vale 2-1 up at half-time. In the second half, Samni Odelusi equalised for City in the 69^th minute but Michael O’Connor sent City to defeat with a 75^th minute goal. 

The teams that day were: 

City: Burge, Stokes, Pennington, Martin, Phillips, Fleck, O'Brien (Jackson 77), Samuel, Barton (Odelusi 62), Tudgay (Williams 62), Nouble. Subs: Charles-Cook, Webster, Turgott, Finch. 

Port Vale: Neal, Dickinson, Robertson, Williamson (Dodds 76), O'Connor, Brown, Moore (Daniel 81), Marshall, Veseli, Inniss (McGivern 35). Pope. Subs: Johnson, Yates, Birchall,  Lines.