The Championship leaders want to make their long-awaited return to the Premier League
Coventry moved again to the highest of the Championship after a 3-1 win over Middlesbrough on Monday night time, however head coach Frank Lampard insisted his gamers should not get “carried away” by promotion speak.
Haji Wright proved the distinction within the match, scoring a hat-trick to safe a giant end result within the promotion race. America ahead had already struck the put up earlier than opening the scoring after 21 minutes.
Wright doubled the lead 10 minutes after the restart, though Riley McGree pulled a objective again for Middlesbrough to arrange a tense end.
Coventry restored management when Matt Targett dealt with contained in the penalty space, permitting Wright to finish his treble from the spot and seal all three factors.
The win, Coventry’s first in 4 matches, lifted them one level away from Middlesbrough, with Millwall six factors additional again in third.
Lampard praised the efficiency however warned there’s nonetheless an extended strategy to go within the marketing campaign.
“It was a giant sport of soccer and confirmed why it’s one and two within the league. They’re a troublesome staff to play towards. By way of the sport plan, we labored on it so much this week and the lads delivered it so I’m very pleased.
“If we are able to play like that and ship like that, now we have 14 extra to go now. We’ve to take that as a template of what wants to enter a sport.
“There’s so many factors to struggle for. We’ve received ourselves on this place, it’s sport on. There may be a lot to play for and we completely can’t get carried away.”
Lampard additionally pressured the significance of sustaining their focus all the best way till the top of the marketing campaign.
“We’ve to deal with ourselves. Nobody can relaxation. It’s about motion, however now we have to recognise the hassle we put into this sport to stay to a plan and ship that. West Brom will probably be a special problem.”
Wright’s hat-trick took him to 13 objectives for the season and his supervisor was fast to reward him.
“Haji retains his head down, he’s been working onerous and we all know what Haji may be like when he’s in that type. Actually happy for him and he has to take that ahead.
“Particularly with a high-level sport, it’s important to rating in essential moments and we did right now. Haji to ship the stress penalty.
“Everyone labored and Haji did the enterprise.”
Middlesbrough, who had received six straight matches earlier than the defeat, dropped to second place. Head coach Kim Hellberg felt the competition was shut, however that his facet in the end didn’t do sufficient.
“Upset we performed an excessive amount of into their palms.
“They have been higher than us within the first half. Second half we have been sensible, take away the 2 conditions the place they scored.
“We created a lot of alternatives. They rating each of them for not doing an excessive amount of. They have been terrible objectives to concede.
“I do know if our performances are adequate we will probably be in a superb place within the desk on the finish of the season. You have a look at the sport and we had 17 photographs within the sport.
“Coventry are a superb staff, good gamers, squad and coach. It was a sport of very small margins. It’ll be a race until the final day in all probability so we simply have to take pleasure in it.”
