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Coventry host Newcastle in Premier League matchday six
Coventry welcome Newcastle to the Coventry Building Society Arena in the sixth round of the Premier League season, with John Brooks as referee. Frank Lampard's side sit 18th after five games, having collected three points, while Matthias Jaissle's Newcastle are ninth with eight points from the same number of matches.
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Coventry's recent record has been difficult. They lost to Hull City, Manchester City, Brighton and Aston Villa across their last five outings, conceding five against Brighton at home and three against Villa, before a 1-0 win away to Nottingham Forest on 19 September.
Newcastle arrive with a mixed but largely productive run. Wins at Tottenham and Millwall bracketed a 2-2 draw with Bournemouth, and a 4-1 defeat at Leeds on 14 September was followed by a 2-1 home win over Hull City five days later. Three wins in five leave them in the top half of the table.
Team news as of 12 October: Coventry have Haji Wright, Joshua Eccles, Luke Woolfenden, Aurèle Amenda and Taiwo Awoniyi (suspended) listed as out, and 2 players as doubtful. Newcastle have Anthony Elanga and Ewen Jaouen listed as out, and Jacob Ramsey, Daniel Burn, Joelinton and 2 others as doubtful.
Newcastle have won three of their last five, while Coventry have won one of theirs, that 1-0 victory at Nottingham Forest on 19 September.
Coventry meet Newcastle in the Premier League (Regular Season - 6). Kick-off is Monday, 12 October 2026, 19:00 UTC at Coventry Building Society Arena. Referee: John Brooks.
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Sirius · Why these numbers
Coventry 19% · Draw 20% · Newcastle 61%
Newcastle's strength gap drives a clear lead — We give Newcastle 61% mainly because our strength rating has them 237 points higher, 1799 to 1562, and early-season fixtures trim Coventry's home chances a little further. The draw sits at 20%, close to the usual rate for a gap this size, with high-scoring recent games nudging it down and the early season nudging it back up.
Why Newcastle at 61%?
Newcastle sit 237 points higher on our strength rating — 1562 to 1799. Sides with a 160–240-point rating edge on the road won 50.9% of 6,682 such games. Both sides are inside their first six league games — home wins land softer this early in the season, so this trims Coventry's column. Across 11,294 opening-stretch games since 2010, home sides won 42.8% where the rating map expected 44.7%, with draws up 1.4 — negative in every season since 2018. The 300 most similar past games finished 19–19–62.
Why only 61%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 61% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 20% and Coventry at 19%.
Why is the draw only 20%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 20.2%. These teams' recent games average 3.4 goals — a high-scoring environment. Games in that environment drew 23.2% of 16,894. The goals environment takes 1.7 points off the draw. Early-season fixtures add 1.4 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Coventry are newly promoted — game 6 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides are said to struggle, but our rating already carries most of it: across 3,012 first-ten games since 2016 they won 26.8% where the rating expected 28.1% — inside the noise band, below it in six of the ten full seasons we hold and about level last season. Newcastle have rebuilt the eleven — fewer of last season's regular starters are still starting. Squad turnover reads dramatic but hasn't moved results once the rating is controlled: the busiest windows landed within noise across 5,368 games, rebuilt elevens likewise across 5,446, and even losing the most regular starters showed nothing (5,336). The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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