Saturday's trip to the Ricoh Stadium took on an extra dimension last night as the Sky Blues were boosted by a superb 2-0 away win at Old Trafford. Iain Dowie's charges thoroughly deserved their win by all accounts against a re-shuffled Manchester United team and confidence in their camp will be sky high. They can expect the highest gate of the season for our visit, so we are going to need to be at our best to avoid a second successive defeat away from home.Their team doesn't look like world-beaters on paper (Stephen Hughes, Dele Adebloa, Kevin Kyle and Leon McKenzie) but Dowie has obviously got them playing as a team. They have picked up 3 more points on their travels than they have at home, so will be desperate to get going at the Ricoh. They have won one, drawn one and lost one at home, to Preston, Hull and Bristol City respectively and will know that a victory will get them level on points with us and haul them into the play-off places.
Alan Pardew may need to out-manouevre Iain Dowie on Saturday to get a result and I think it could be a high-scoring game. I'll plump for us to share 5 goals with spoils going to the manager who gets the tactics right.
C'mon you Reds!
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