Coventry vs Blackburn Rovers

A first half Jamie Allen strike got Coventry City back to winning ways at the CBS Arena against second from top Blackburn Rovers to lift them out of the ...

Closed down well from the start and forced early errors from the keeper. Raced out to collect the ball on the deck well during a busier second half to snuff out Brereton Diaz. Set up Gyokeres for a decent chance in the first half and had a powerful effort blocked at the last second. Gyokeres sparked one exciting move when he intercepted the ball in the middle of the park and raced forward and squared the ball to Allen who hit a powerful shot that was parried away by the keeper. Read the game really well, cutting out passes and sliding in to make tackles. Defended solidly throughout and rose to the occasion of the added responsibility. Made a good save to deny a Brereton Diaz from a second half free-kick from the edge of the box. Coventry started the second half as they had spent much of the first, largely in control and looking to get forward in the search of goals. Gave City a deserved lead with a lovely near post finish from a deflected Eccles’ cross. Sheaf then had a powerful effort blocked at the last second from a cleared corner that Eccles attempted to turn over the line from close range after a lovely delivery from Hamer into the six yard box. City were dealt an injury blow on 70 minutes when Hamer limped off, having taken a whack earlier on, and was replaced by Kasey Palmer. Substitute Bradley Dack sent a glancing header just over the bar as the home side hung on.

Blackburn Rovers' four-game Championship winning run came to an end as they were beaten 1-0 by Coventry City. An awful first-half littered with errors and ...

Ran around but didn't get much of a sniff at goal. Came on at half-time for his first appearance since the 1-0 defeat to Wigan. Saw one shot in the first half just wide and had a free-kick palmed away. Looked like the only player capable of scoring a goal. Struggled to hold the ball up and again left question marks as to whether he's ready for first-team football at this level. Improved after half-time but couldn't help his side progress the ball through the third in the opening 45. Got forward much better in the second half but it didn't amount to much. As poor a first half as he's ever had in his Rovers career. The best of the back three by a fair amount. Produced a fine stop to deny the midfielder a second midway through the second half. That was the best Rovers could muster with reinforcements from the bench arriving far too late to make an impact. Their first shot on target didn't come until the hour when Ben Wilson palmed away a free-kick from Ben Brereton Diaz.

Jamie Allen's first half goal was enough to earn the Sky Blues all three points against Blackburn Rovers at the Coventry Building Society Arena.

However, with only minutes remaining of the first half City found the goal they had been craving and it came from a Josh Eccles ball into the box which was met by Jamie Allen, and he found the back of the net to make it 1-0. Hamer was seeing a lot of the ball and he was troubling Kaminski with several shots from range, with his latest a free-kick from 35-yards-out, which the Rovers ‘keeper could only push back in towards play. Josh Eccles was returning to the starting eleven and he had the first of City’s chances, coming in from the right-hand-side and forcing Thomas Kaminski into an early stop.