PREVIEW: Coventry Sphinx (H)
Where:
The Stotto Stadium, Farley Way, Quorn LE12 8RB
When:
Tuesday 29th of October 2024 (7:45pm KO)
After a weekend where neither side played, Quorn and Coventry Sphinx return to action as they look to play a match that was abandoned last month with the The Reds leading 4-1. Quorn sit second, four points behind Corby Town, but with three games in hand. The Sphinx sit 18th, just a point above the drop zone, but also having games in hand on the teams around them.
Quorn’s Form:
Tuesday will be our sixth home game of the season, in the previous five matches we’ve scored five goals three times. If you include the four we’d scored in the original fixture it’s fair to say our home form has been pretty good. In all we’ve won four and drawn one at The Stotto Stadium, with a league record of 10 wins and two draws in total.
Coventry Sphinx’s Form:
Coventry didn’t play at the weekend and are on a run which has seen draws in four of their previous five games, including creditable draws against three top-half sides, including Corby Town. The other result was a 2-1 defeat away to relegation strugglers Grantham Town. Prior to that run was the match at Quorn in which they trailed 4-1 before the Referee abandoned the match, that was on the back of conceding five at home to Long Eaton United.
In all fixtures away from Sphinx Drive, Coventry’s record has seen them draw two (Walsall Wood and Rugby Town) and lose two (Sutton Coldfield Town and Grantham Town). Through 11 games in the league, Sphinx have won just twice, drawn six and lost three times and sit 18th in the league.
One to Watch:
The abandoned fixture in Quorn was the last match that Coventry Sphinx played before signing former Reds ‘keeper Charlie Woods. Things have definitely improved for the Sphinx since his arrival.
Last Time:
Well, I think we all remember what happened a month ago, Cain Noble had scored a brace in the first 23 minutes before Omotolani Omotala pulled one back for the visitors. Courey Grantham made it 3-1 before the break and Jack York scored his first for the club after coming off the bench a few minutes earlier. Shortly afterwards the sides were brought off the pitch because of lightning, with the game abandoned ten minutes later, despite our near neighbours Loughborough Students playing their match to completion.
The sides last played 90 minutes back in December 2023, with Quorn winning 4-2 at Farley Way. It was the third meeting of the season, following an opening day 1-1 draw at Sphinx Drive, a match that a lacklustre Reds side were fortunate to escape with a point as a late Sphinx effort looked as though it may have crossed the line. The second meeting was a routine 4-0 win in Quorn as the Reds embarked on a record FA Trophy run, but I digress, back to December 2023…
Ryan Beswick, who is now player/Manager, opened the scoring in the 31st minute, only for Jack Downes to equalise before the break. Coventrian Devon Kelly-Evans restored the lead shortly after the break, but against the run of play Jac Redhead pulled Sphinx level again in the 70th minute. The parity didn’t last long though as Cain Noble scored our third in the 76th minute, before former player/Manager Ant Carney finished the game off with a fourth in the 90th minute.
Tickets:
Adults £10.00, Concessions £8.00, U16s £2.00, Under 14s Free