Cardiff City vs Coventry

Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship clash between Cardiff City and Coventry City at the Cardiff City Stadium as Viktor Gyokeres ...

Thankfully, we grew into it and any time they had a spell of pressure we withstood it and any chances they had they missed the target. We got away with that but other than that we did OK. Coventry's Mark Robins: "It was a good result, although we didn't start off great and gave the ball away too much. The referees don't understand it and it's not good for the game. We weren't at the level we were last week in the first half. He's onside but they have given it offside because of a rule that the defender isn't in control of the ball.

Cardiff City went down 1-0 at home to the Sky Blues at the Cardiff City Stadium.

With two goals and three assists to his name, Robinson had previously been involved in each of Cardiff's last five goals. The former Swansea City striker should have opened the scoring early on. Lovely from Ralls, who brings the ball down and drives a cross in on the half-volley. Gyokeres with a lovely cross in for Bidwell, but his header is turned over the bar. There will have been no shortage of frustration here for Hudson, who must have felt his team had created more than enough to take something from this game, but this was a real reminder of the unforgiving nature of the Championship, and how difficult it can be for a manager to find answers. The forward was convinced he should have had a penalty 10 minutes from time after going down under pressure from Fankaty Dabo, but Madley wasn't interested, much to the fury of the home crowd. A marvellous ball from Matt Godden was enough to slice open the defence and allow Allen to shoot on the bounce, with Allsop's resulting save palmed straight into the path of Gyokeres. There were a couple of Bluebirds defenders to navigate, but it will have nevertheless gone down as a howler from a Coventry perspective, and a big let-off from a Cardiff point of view. A clever corner allowed Robinson to let fly, but his low shot couldn't quite navigate its way through a forest of Coventry legs inside the box, before Callum O'Dowda then headed into a crowd from the resulting corner. A mix-up involving Allsop saw the ball deflect off a backtracking Perry Ng straight into the path of the striker, who rounded the keeper only to blaze high and wide. He had limped out just before half-time in the win over the Latics last weekend, but showed little sign of rustiness here, and was at the heart of his side's efforts in the final third for much of the afternoon. Viktor Gyokeres condemned Cardiff City to their first defeat of the Mark Hudson era, netting the only goal of a closely-fought contest at the Cardiff City Stadium