Coventry vs MK Dons Predictions & Tips

Only Wycombe have taken more home points than Coventry in League 1 this season.
MK Dons have claimed only five away points during the current League 1 campaign.
Coventry are League 1’s joint-best team in terms of shots on target conceded at home.
MK Dons are League 1 ‘s fifth worst team in terms of both shots on target conceded and shots on target for away from home.

Coventry on the up

Winners of their last three league matches, Coventry have marched towards the automatic promotion places of late. Mark Robins’ men now find themselves just a point behind Rotherham, who currently occupy 2^nd place.

For much of the campaign, The Sky Blues have been tremendously tough to face, even though they’re without a permanent home, though they were previously suffering from a lack of firepower. Recent matches suggest that that is now a problem of the past, as they’ve notched nine in their last three. If they can keep Matt Godden fit and supplied with chances, then promotion is very much attainable.

Away-day troubles for Dons

Coventry are not the only ones to thrive of late, as MK Dons have enjoyed a pleasing run of form too. Saturday’s visitors, low as they may be in the standings, have avoided defeat in each of their last three league matches, two of which they’ve won. Not only do they come into this fixture off the back of a trio of victories, but they’ve also lost just one of their last six. It appears that The Dons are on the up under the stewardship of Russell Martin.

MK Dons haven’t just improved results of late, but they’ve done so by getting the better of some very good sides, beating Portsmouth and Oxford at home, while they also took a point off Doncaster away from home. Such results are promising. However, it can’t be ignored that each of their recent wins have come at Stadium mk. Away from the comforts of home, The Dons remain without a win on the road since September. They’ve since lost six out of eight travelling matches, scoring five goals, conceding 13, keeping no clean sheets and failing to score four times.

Hosts to go marching on

MK Dons have improved of late, but their away form cannot be ignored. The visitors have struggled massively on their travels this term, so much so that they’ve claimed just five points. That doesn’t bode well ahead of a game against the second-best home team in the division.

However, we shouldn’t necessarily expect the hosts to run riot. Punters can profit from this fixture by siding with ‘Coventry to Win & Under 3.5 Goals’. The Sky Blues have been good at grinding out results by both dictating and restricting their opponents at St. Andrew’s but they’ve not dealt out many heavy beatings, scoring more than twice just once this term. Similarly, for all they’ve struggled hugely on the road, MK Dons have only conceded more than twice on two occasions and are yet to ship four on their travels. The fact that Coventry have conceded an average of only 2.08 shots on target at home this term fuels the selection further.