Intro and Team News
IBO Reporter - channonite
Intro
|The FACup Round four and a potential banana skin type of game with a more than decent Coventry, a Championship side that we played last back on the 28th April 2012 in the last match of that years Championship Season. Saints won 4-0 and were promoted to the Premier League, whereas Coventry were relegated and destined for a spell in the First Division.
Since then they have had a torrid time, with all sorts of financial problems, culminating with them having to play two seasons home matches in a ground share arrangement with Birmingham. In 2021 they returned to the Championship and then reached agreement to return to the now renamed 'Coventry Building society Arena' in Coventry. Under manager Mark Robins who, since he took over in 2017, has built a useful side, who currently sit in 12th place in the Championship with several games in hand over some of the clubs above them.
Willy Caballero had a fine game in goal and pulled off two spectacular saves in succession right at the death. Although Coventry finally got the ball in the net, it was offside and Saints had won.
Southampton
- 13 Caballero
- 43 Valery - Booked 78'
- 4 Lyanco (Redmond 34')
- 5 Stephens
- 21 Livramento Romeu 90'+2
- 27 Diallo
- 8 Ward-Prowse
- 16 Small (Walker-Peters 45' - Booked at 113')
- 32 Walcott (Broja 64')
- 7 Long
- 9 A Armstrong (S Armstrong 45')
Substitutes
- 2 Walker-Peters
- 6 Romeu
- 10 Adams
- 11 Redmond
- 17 S Armstrong
- 18 Broja
- 22 Salisu
- 24 Elyounoussi
- 41 Lewis
Coventry
- 1 Moore
- 15 Hyam
- 4 Rose
- 3 Clarke-Salter - Booked 117'
- 28 Eccles - Booked 41' (Kane 73' - Booked 105')
- 38 Hamer - Booked 45' (Allen 73')
- 14 Sheaf - Booked 58'
- 27 Bidwell (Waghorn 73')
- 10 O'Hare (Jones 89')
- 17 Gyökeres
- 18 Maatsen (Shipley 64')
Substitutes
- 5 McFadzean
- 7 Jones
- 8 Allen
- 9 Waghorn
- 13 Wilson
- 20 Kane
- 26 Shipley
- 30 Tavares
- 36 Howley
