A look at the opposition: Who are Coventry’s key men?

Fulham’s Premier League season continues in earnest as the Cottagers take on Coventry on Saturday in another hugely important clash in the top flight.

Alvaro Arbeloa got a lot of pressure off his back as Fulham were able to finally get their opening triumph of the season against Hull, but there is little time to dwell on that victory, as the Cottagers travel to Coventry for another game of huge importance.

It is a battle between 17th and 18th in the Premier League table and therefore perhaps one of even more importance for both sides.

And so, with that in mind, who are the three key men in the Coventry side?

Not to be too blindingly obvious, but Jack Rudoni is simply Coventry’s most important attacking player.

He now has three goals this season for his club in all competitions, including two in his last two Premier League matches against Newcastle and Tottenham.

Everything ticks through Rudoni, and he is clearly a player of huge importance for Coventry.

Fulham will have to mark him out of the game, a job that will fall to Shea Charles and Sander Berge, to make sure he does not get too involved for Coventry.

Bobby Thomas has been very impressive in the opening weeks of the Premier League, and that is despite his side conceding 14 goals in seven matches.

Thomas has proven that he is a top defender, and that is something that is highly valuable when you find yourself in the position in which Coventry do, of course.

He has made 59 clearances, the most in the Premier League, and his nine blocks also place him seventh, so the stats also back up his excellence in last-ditch defending.

Coventry will hope not to rely on him quite as heavily as they have done thus far, while Fulham will hope Thomas is not too influential when the two sides clash.

Brandon Thomas-Asante has perhaps been a little understated for Coventry this season in terms of his importance.

Less obvious at either end of the pitch than either Rudoni or Thomas, Thomas-Asante has been quietly effective both in attack and in defence.

In the Championship last season, he notched up 13 goals and four assists in 32 matches, and after a slow start to this campaign, his creativity is starting to be rewarded.

He now has three assists in all competitions, the most for Coventry, and two of those came in the last two matches.

But he has also shown his work rate, with his 12 interceptions putting him in seventh in the Premier League.