Exeter City 1 - 0 Coventry City

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Exeter City 1 - 0 Coventry City

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Re: Exeter City 1 - 0 Coventry City

Postby dutchman » Sat Jan 13, 2018 6:34 pm

Costly mistake as Sky Blues crash back down to earth

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Coventry City came crashing back down to earth with a League Two defeat at promotion rivals Exeter City.

The Sky Blues make the long trip to Devon full of confidence after their FA Cup exploits against Premier League opposition, but only had themselves to blame as they got back to the bread and butter of their campaign against the Grecians who boast the third best home record in the division.

A poor clearance from returning keeper Lee Burge – the only change to the starting line-up from last week’s victory over Stoke – handed Paul Tisdale’s men the lead as early as the seventh minute at St James Park.

But despite a string of chances the visitors simply couldn’t find a way through as they slipped from the automatic promotion places down to eighth place and outside the play-off pack.

Mark McNulty and Jordan Maguire-Drew were denied by home goalkeeper Christy Pym, while Max Biamou missed a glorious looking close range effort in a wide open first half in which Coventry enjoyed plenty of possession and nine shots at goal but couldn’t hurt their oponents who played largely on the counter attack in the opening 45.

McNulty was denied again in the second half when Jordan Ponticelli replaced Biamou midway through before Josh Barrett was thrown on to make his City debut in place of Jordan Shipley for the last 15 minutes.

City finished the game strongly with plenty of possession with Ponticelli clipping the bar and Chris Stokes denied by a good save at the death.

But Robins will be left to reflect on a missed opportunity on the day when his side shot themselves in the foot in the first ten minutes.

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