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Coventry head coach Frank Lampard:
“Over the course of the season, there are so many games you play. We had a hot patch earlier in the season where everything you hit goes in.
“Today we had a couple of chances first half that didn’t go in, Ephron gets a great goal. We have chances in the second half to make it feel more secure and it doesn’t quite drop for
Bristol City head coach Gerhard Struber told BBC Radio Bristol:
“I am really happy how we deal with the opponent today and we was in a really good way but we have to score and this is the difference between them and us – that they can use chances and we have the gap.
“We are so close and we can see we can be with the top team in
Lampard will be relieved at the crucial victory and the way his side kept going to finally find a way through Stoke’s well-drilled defence.
Viktor Johansson was in the mood to frustrate Coventry and kept out a powerful free-kick from Victor Torp before he touched a curling effort from the same player over at full stretch.
Stoke had their moments and Coventry goalkeeper Carl Rushworth denied their captain Ben Wilmot
Ephron Mason-Clarke admits Coventry are “up there to be shot at” after climbing to fifth in the Championship but says the Sky Blues believe in themselves.
City’s eighth win in nine league games saw them rise to their highest position this season, with 11 games to go.
In just his second start since missing eight games through injury, Mason-Clark put Coventry 2-1 up in a crazy 18-minute second-half spell at
The first half was largely dominated by Coventry until two minutes before the break when Abu Kamara’s cross to the far post found Ryan Longman, whose close range header came back off the upright, only for Pedro to bury the rebound from eight yards for his third goal in nine games.
Given Hull’s away record against Coventry, having won and drawn two of their previous eight visits to the stadium,