Forest Green Rovers 2 - 1 Coventry City

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Forest Green Rovers 2 - 1 Coventry City

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Re: Forest Green Rovers 2 - 1 Coventry City

Postby dutchman » Sat Feb 03, 2018 6:39 pm

Sky Blues lose on the road at Forest Green Rovers

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Coventry City’s automatic promotion hopes suffered a set-back when they sank to their seventh League Two defeat on the road in their first ever visit to Forest Green Rovers.

The Little Club on the Hill completed a league double over the Sky Blues, having already beaten them at the Ricoh Arena in October to complete a miserable return against the struggling Gloucestershire minnows.

Rovers had been second from bottom in the table going into the fixture but managed to inflict City’s tenth league defeat of the campaign in a disappointing and costly display from Mark Robins’s men who slipped down to eighth place.

New signing Alex Bray – one of ten new arrivals in the window – gave the home side the lead six minutes before the break when he slotted home into an empty net after Lee Burge had parried a Dayle Grubb shot onto the far post.

City got back on level terms from a 58th minute penalty from Marc McNulty, after Liam Kelly had been fouled in the box, but Rovers restored their lead just six minutes later when Lee Collins hit an unstoppable shot into the top corner to give keeper Lee Burge no chance.

City had chances of their own in a lively first half at The New Lawn when Josh Barrett was denied by a brilliant early save and should really have converted a second a chance he put wide.

The Sky Blues, however, were forced to reshuffle their back four on the half hour mark when Jack Grimmer went off injured, replaced by Rod McDonald as Jordan Willis switched across to cover at right-back, and again 20 minutes from time when Tom Davies limped off, to be replaced by Ryan Haynes and forcing Chris Stokes to fill in at centre-half.

New signing Jonson Clarke-Harris was thrown on to make his debut just after the hour, replacing Max Biamou, but the Rothetrham United loan signing couldn’t make it a dream start on his return to the club where he started his career.

City kept pushing in six minutes of added time when former loan man Farrend Rawson seemed to get his head on every ball into the box, while Rovers almost wrapped things up on the counter attacked when Tahvon Campbell was denied by a good save by Burge.

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