City V Southampton A Meeting Of Old Friends

Last updated : 01 November 2011 By Covsupport News Service

Saturday's Championship game at the Ricoh Arena, will be the 115th league and cup match between Coventry City and Southampton.

The Sky Blues have not met any other team in the division as many times as they have Southampton.

Of those 114 previous games, City have won 41 of those games and drawn 37. They have scored 158 goals compared to Southampton's 161.

The corresponding fixture on Saturday October 4th 2008 saw a 4-1 win for City with a brace for Jay Tabb and goals for Leon McKenzie and Leon Best against his former club.

The teams that day were
City; Westwood, Osbourne, Fox (Hall 80), Ward,Dann,Doyle, Gunnarsson,Tabb, Eastwood (Mifsud 88), Best (Morrison 80) SNU Marshall,Beuzelin

Southampton
Davis,Perry,Wotton (Wright Phillips 59),Surman,McCormack,Lellana (Pekhart 59,James (Gillett 59),Lancashire,Cork, Miles,Robertson SNU White,Bialowski.