Coventry 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: Haji Wright's late goal wins it for Mark Robins' Sky Blues

Haji Wright headed a late winner as Coventry made it consecutive wins with a 1-0 victory over Blackburn.

The Sky Blues had hit the crossbar three times on the night, firstly through Matty Godden and Bobby Thomas, before Yasin Ayari's effort rebounded off the woodwork only for Wright to nod home five minutes from time.

The American's second Sky Blues goal since his summer arrival from Antalyaspor condemned Rovers to their fourth straight defeat, with Jon Dahl Tomasson's men having conceded 12 in the process.

Rovers hit the crossbar themselves in the first half through on-loan Bournemouth defender James Hill, while Sammie Szmodics saw an early effort curl wide of Ben Wilson's goal after good work from Tyrhys Dolan.

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Mark Robins' Sky Blues pipped their visitors to a play-off place by one point last season, but the two came into the clash languishing in 14th and 18th in the league table after slow starts to the campaign.

Hill went closest in a subdued first half when he crashed his thunderous effort against the crossbar, in what would have been a memorable way to mark the 21-year-old's first league start for Rovers.

Ellis Simms had opened his Sky Blues account with a brace against QPR in a welcome 3-1 win for Coventry at the weekend, but was kept quiet by the Rovers back-line which included former Sky Blue Dominic Hyam.

Injury-plagued Coventry skipper Liam Kelly hobbled off 25 minutes into the contest and was replaced by Brighton loanee Ayari, who could have opened the scoring immediately for the hosts.

He was picked out in acres of space in the box by Jay Dasilva, but scuffed his effort.

Coventry rattled the crossbar for the first time merely 30 seconds after the restart when Sweden international Ayari cut back for Godden, but the Sky Blues' top scorer could only lift his effort against the woodwork from close range.

Blackburn had the ball in the net shortly after as Brighton loanee Andrew Moran celebrated what would have been his first career goal to a chorus of boos from the home crowd.

However, after consulting his assistant, referee Jeremy Simpson deemed Moran had fouled goalkeeper Wilson by kicking the ball out of his hands and tapping home, keeping things all square.

The goal in front of the traveling support was living a charmed life as Thomas was next to hit the woodwork, latching onto an out-swinging corner and firing his effort against Leopold Wahlstedt's crossbar.

Substitute Arnor Sigurdsson should have ended Coventry's unbeaten home record when he found himself through on goal with two for company, but his tame effort was straight at the chest of the Sky Blues stopper.

But on 85 minutes Coventry got the luck they felt they had deserved.

Ayari's effort rebounded off the crossbar before the Sky Blues' record signing nodded home to secure Coventry's second home win of the season.

The managers

Coventry's Mark Robins:

"We started the brighter of the teams, had loads of energy, tried to execute what we wanted to do and did it pretty successfully to start with. They got control in the second half of the first half and had a lot of possession and they can do that to you. You've got to be brave, work really hard to try and play through them and if you can do that and the first pass is a really good pass, then you can take out the majority of the team.

"With the pace of Ellis and Haji you can cause them problems and it looked that way. We had the spell in the second half when we created a lot more chances. The header is a brilliant header from Haji and he gets a lot of power on it and just waits for the right moment and the timing is perfect. It gives us a lead, having conceded a goal at the other end I thought he was going to give. Ben Wilson has got the ball in both hands and he has kicked the ball out of his hands by Moran.

"They are a good side and they will probably get fed up of hearing it, because they have played some really good teams now. I think they are a really good team and we've done really well to get the three points. Back-to-back wins for the first time this season which is really welcome."

Blackburn's Jon Dahl Tomasson:

"Disappointed with the result of course, I actually saw a really good team, great spirit and togetherness against a good opponent in an away game. I think we were quite solid in everything we did with the ball, without the ball, we created chances and we had big moments where we probably should have done better. We need to be more clinical in the box to get results but I think the boys have played an excellent game so if we keep on doing this then we will get some results.

"From my distance it was a strange situation wasn't it? The referee had no clue if it was a goal or not, the linesman did nothing and after a short chat suddenly it was a free kick. I haven't seen it back, then after that we have an extremely big moment, maybe one or two against one with the goalkeeper, then we are leading 1-0, but a good performance from my players for sure. We are doing a lot of good things, we have been giving too easy goals away, I think we were quite solid today mostly and we have created plenty of goal chances to win games, but of course we need to score."

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