Coventry City celebrate their promotion to the Premier League in a Championship clash at home to play-off chasing Wrexham.
Coventry are already promoted as champions, but sixth-placed Wrexham can put the final play-off spot in their own hands on the final day and move three points clear of Hull with a win.
Team News
Coventry have no fresh injury concerns to report after their 5-1 victory at home against Portsmouth in midweek.
Oliver Dovin (ACL) and Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (rib) remain absent.
Wrexham could again be without Zak Vyner after he sat out their last three matches with a groin injury.
Zak Vyner (groin) Liberato Cacace (hamstring) and Ben Sheaf (knee) remain absent.
When is Kick-Off?
Coventry host Wrexham at CBS Arena on Sunday 26 April at 12pm BST, live on ITV, ITVX and Sky Sports in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Coventry have claimed 16 points from their nine previous league meetings against Wrexham (W5, D1, L3).
- Wrexham are yet to win a league match away at Coventry (L4).
- Coventry have kept clean sheets in three of their four previous home matches against Wrexham.
- Two of Coventry’s last four matches have ended in 0-0 draws.
- Josh Windass has scored in Wrexham’s last two matches (W2).
Prediction
With promotion and the title now wrapped up, it is hard to predict what Frank Lampard will do as this is the ideal chance to experiment but it’s their last home game of the season and a trophy presentation post-match, so there will be a desire to deliver another win in front of the home crowd.
Bromley manager, Andy Woodman on Thursday night after defeat at Salford however spoke of there being a risk of being “… 5% off it one end and the other team have 10% on it,” following the Ravens’ promotion to League One, so will be interesting to see if that applies to Coventry who have both promotion and title done.
Wrexham though will hope Woodman’s theory proves fruititious because given their poor away record at Coventry, they really need the hosts to suffer that dip if they’re to have that last play-off spot in their own hands on the final day, although they did need a clinical moment to win at Oxford United on Tuesday.
For me personally, this largely rests on Coventry’s line-up but Wrexham nevertheless should have the extra motivation and fight to get the win, purely because they’ve got more to play for than their hosts.
Prediction: Coventry 1-2 Wrexham
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