Coventry vs Fulham player ratings: Bobb takes top mark as Leno and King help visitors secure late win

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Oscar Bobb tops the Coventry vs Fulham player ratings after scoring the late winner in the visitors’ 1-0 victory at the CBS Arena.

Bernd Leno and Josh King also feature prominently in FotMob’s assessment, while Ethan Pinnock receives Coventry’s highest score.

The numerical ratings below come from FotMob’s completed match centre. They are statistical scores out of 10, with our assessment of the decisive moments beneath the tables.

Coventry City player ratings

Player	Rating
Carl Rushworth	6.4
Milan van Ewijk	7.1
Bobby Thomas	6.9
Ethan Pinnock	7.2
Jay Dasilva	6.4
Caleb Yirenkyi	6.5
Matt Grimes	6.3
Tatsuhiro Sakamoto	6.8
Jack Rudoni	7.0
Brandon Thomas-Asante	6.3
Sidiki Chérif	5.9

Coventry substitutes

Player	Rating
Stephen Mfuni	6.3
Frank Onyeka	6.4
Taiwo Awoniyi	6.0
Ephron Mason-Clark	5.8
Gustavo Hamer	NR

Fulham player ratings

Player	Rating
Bernd Leno	8.1
Timothy Castagne	7.6
David Affengruber	7.2
Calvin Bassey	7.4
Antonee Robinson	7.1
Shea Charles	7.6
Hugo Larsson	6.3
Oscar Bobb	8.5
Josh King	7.9
Alex Iwobi	7.3
Gonzalo García	6.7

Fulham substitutes

Player	Rating
Sander Berge	7.0
César Palacios	6.5
Rodrigo Muniz	6.3
Kenny Tete	NR
Tom Cairney	NR

NR means FotMob did not assign a score.

Bobb provides the moment Coventry cannot stop

Bobb’s winning goal required more than a routine finish. He worked past the attempts of Dasilva and Rudoni to halt his progress before finding the far corner.

The Guardian’s match report details the individual quality that separated the teams.

For Coventry, the frustration was the timing. They had reached the closing stages level, only for one attacking move to turn a potential point into a defeat.

King threatens before the breakthrough

King had already struck the crossbar before the winning goal, while Thomas-Asante headed over during Coventry’s early pressure, as recorded in AS’s report.

Those moments help explain a contest in which both sides had opportunities but neither established an early advantage.

Leno’s clean sheet gave Fulham the platform to turn Bobb’s finish into three points. Coventry’s attacking changes did not produce an equaliser.

Fulham build on the Hull victory

Arbeloa had stressed continuity in his pre-match assessment, maintaining that Fulham believed in their approach even before results improved.

Consecutive victories now give that position greater substance.

Lampard’s side, meanwhile, could not follow through on the response discussed in his pre-match press conference. After losing at Tottenham, Coventry suffered another setback.

The ratings provide one statistical perspective on those performances. They should be read alongside the match incidents rather than treated as a complete explanation of the result.

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