Coventry 2-0 Huddersfield: Gustavo Hamer and Kasey Palmer steer Sky Blues to victory

Former Huddersfield loanee Kasey Palmer scored against his old side as Coventry ran out 2-0 winners at the CBS Arena.

The ex-Chelsea academy product spent 18 months on loan in West Yorkshire, making 28 league appearances for the Terriers and scoring four times.

Gustavo Hamer was also on the scoresheet for Mark Robins' side, who ended a run of five games without victory in the Championship dating back to before Christmas.

There was an added bonus of a clean sheet for the Sky Blues after conceding four goals in each of their last two home outings.

A lacklustre Huddersfield side, sporting the worst away record in the Championship, seldom threatened the Coventry goal and remained in the relegation zone, three points from safety.

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Hamer opened the scoring in the 53rd minute, after an uninspiring first half, when he cut inside from the left after a neat one-two with Viktor Gyokeres and unleashed a rasping drive which found the far corner.

Coventry had picked up just one victory since returning from the World Cup break and Swedish star Gyokeres also set up the second, crossing for Palmer to nod home from close range after persistent work on the left in the 71st minute.

The welcome victory also marked the first league win for Coventry over the Terriers since 1972.

It had been a busy week in the transfer window for Coventry as new loan signing Luke McNally made his debut in a back three made up solely of loanees, next to Callum Doyle and Jonathan Panzo.

The Terriers had also been busy on the transfer front and despite naming an unchanged line-up from the last-minute heartbreak at Hull 14 days ago, new signings Joe Hungbo and Florian Kamberi came off the bench to make their league debuts.

Burnley loanee McNally was in action at both ends, throwing himself in front of a Jack Rudoni free-kick before heading Hamer's corner over the bar.

Hamer had earlier seen a long-range effort beaten away by stand-in Terriers goalkeeper Nicholas Bilokapic.

Mark Fotheringham's men were unable to trouble Ben Wilson in the Coventry goal, Jordan Rhodes heading a Duane Holmes cross into the welcoming arms of the Sky Blues stopper before repeating the feat in the second half from Josh Ruffels' cross.

Matt Godden and Josh Eccles also came off the bench to make their first Coventry appearances since October and December respectively, the former testing Bilokapic with a low effort which the Australian rebuffed with his feet.

The managers

Coventry's Mark Robins:

"Kasey Palmer is now getting on the end of things and getting into the box in good areas, scored a header, he's never headed it in his life! I think it was a brilliant goal as well, great ball in, great position, great header and it kills the game off.

"Kasey's a really good player, there's things he does where he takes a touch he doesn't need to but he's outstanding, he creates loads of things and now he's adding goals, goal attempts and making keepers make saves."

Huddersfield's Mark Fotheringham:

"The group is frustrated, they're disappointed in the manner in which we lost the two goals. Our whole match planning was to nullify their big players. We had a real clear shape to what we were doing. There wasn't a lot of chances against us from open play, especially against a team that are playing with great confidence and have two or three really exciting players in the final third.

"But we do have an underlying feeling of frustration and disappointment because we felt in the first half we wanted to take it up the gears and not let Coventry off the hook because we felt we had them rattled, it was just the manner in which they scored the goal off the two second phases from set plays."

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