Coventry maintained their push for the Championship play-offs with a 2-1 win over Sunderland on the Coventry Constructing Society Enviornment.
Jamie Allen scored the opener after 25 minutes, guiding in his second aim in as many video games after a pull-back from Viktor Gyokeres, who slid in a second to cap a superb efficiency on his a hundredth look in a Sky Blues shirt.
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Viktor Gyokeres marked his a hundredth look for Coventry with a aim and an help
Manchester United loanee Amad Diallo curled in a magnificence to halve the deficit in second-half stoppage time, but it surely was nothing greater than a comfort for Tony Mowbray’s males, who missed out on the prospect to leap into the play-off locations having prolonged their run of not profitable away at Coventry within the league since April 1985.
The Sky Blues, in the meantime, climb to tenth, two factors outdoors the highest six with 13 video games remaining.
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Sunderland’s Danny Batth powers a header at aim that ricochets off the bar throughout his aspect’s fixture towards Coventry within the Championship
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Coventry’s Jamie Allen arrives within the field to place his aspect 1-0 up over Sunderland within the Championship
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Tensions boil over within the Coventry vs Sunderland recreation after Amad Diallo is fouled not as soon as however 3 times on his means in the direction of aim
What’s subsequent?
Coventry are subsequent in motion at 7.45pm on Tuesday February 28, when the face Preston at Deepdale, in match dwell on Sky Sports activities Soccer Crimson Button.
Sunderland, in the meantime, return at 3pm on Saturday March 4, once they face Stoke on the Stadium of Gentle.