57th Game Between City And Brighton

Last updated : 27 December 2011 By Covsupport News Service

Saturday will see the 57th league and cup match between Coventry City and Brighton & Hove Albion.

City have won 15 of those games and drawn 19 . They have scored 71 goals compared to Brighton's 85.

Brighton have played at the Ricoh Arena once before. That was back on Feb 4th 2006 and saw a 2-0 win for the Sky Blues.  Dennis Wise scored in the 42nd and 68th minute in front of a crowd of 20,541.

The teams that day were:
City: Fulop, Whing, Hall, Page, Williams, Doyle, Adebola (Hutchison 69), McSheffrey (Morrell 29), Scowcroft, John, Wise (Impey 90). SNU Ince,Shaw

Brighton
Henderson, Hart, Hammond, Carpenter, Butters, Carole, Frutos (Kazim-Richards 69), El-Abd, Robinson (McPhee 70), McShane, Lynch. SNU Martin, Reid, Hinshelwood.

Brighton have won on seven previous occasions in Coventry, their last was on Jan 30th 1981. City have won 12 of the 26 matches played in Coventry with seven draws. City's biggest win was a 5-0 victory in September 1935.

For more on matches between City and Brighton, please click on http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadhed.asp