City's 14th Visit To Blackpool

Last updated : 09 March 2016 By CNS Staff

Saturday will see Coventry City’s 14th visit to Blackpool for a league match. 

The Sky Blues have won only once in Blackpool in a League fixture and that was a 1-0 win in 1922 and have lost on eleven occasions with one draw. City have scored on five occasions at Blackpool but conceded 31 goals. 

City’s last game in Blackpool was on January 31st 2012 on a night where Conor Thomas gave City the lead but Kevin Phillips came on for the Seasiders and scored in the 87th minute with Gary Taylor-Fletcher getting the winner for Blackpool in the third minute of stoppage time. 

The teams that night were:

City: Murphy, Keogh, Christie, Hreidarsson, Cranie, Thomas (Bell 92), Deegan, Clingan, McSheffrey, Platt, Nimely (Wood 80). SNU Dunn, Baker. 

Blackpool: Gilks, Baptiste, Cathcart, Evatt, Crainey, Ferguson, Sylvestre (K.Phillips 68), M.Phillips, G.Phillips, Ince (Bednar 81), Lualua (Fleck 68). SNU Basham, Dicko