Heading into the weekend, no side has conceded more shots than Newcastle, they’ve conceded 97 shots in five games - 10 more than the next weakest team for that metric.
They’ve conceded that many shots against sides, heading into the weekend, sitting 6th, 20th, 17th, 5th and 8th, so it doesn’t appear that they’ve had a particularly challenging fixture list so far.
They’ve conceded 19.40 shots per game on average, comfortably landing this bet in each match by giving up 27. 17, 17, 15 and 22 shots.
If you take out their opening night trip to reigning champions Arsenal, Coventry are at 11.75 shots per game, so they’d only need to improve on that by just over one shot to land this bet, when they’re at home to the worst defence at limiting opposition shots.
Newcastle had way more players called up for international duty than Coventry, so they’re dealing with more disruption than their hosts ahead of this fixture as well.
