Coventry battle to victory to end Barnsley’s unbeaten start to League One - 7M sport

Coventry battle to victory to end Barnsley’s unbeaten start to League One



Posted Sunday, September 16, 2018 by PA

Coventry battle to victory to end Barnsley’s unbeaten start to League One

Jordan Willis grabbed the only goal of the game as Coventry earned back-to-back league victories for the first time this season with a 1-0 triumph against Barnsley.

As a result, the Tykes suffered their first defeat of the campaign and also extended their 95-year winless sequence at the Sky Blues to 25 matches.

Conor Chaplin should have given the home side a sixth-minute breakthrough when he somehow side-footed wide from six yards.

Jacob Brown spurned two clear-cut chances for Barnsley, firstly when he intercepted Junior Brown’s backpass only to see goalkeeper Lee Burge touch his low shot onto a post before firing wide when well-placed from Mamadou Thiam’s low cross.

Burge tipped Thiam’s 20-yard curler over the bar five minutes into the second half, but at the other end, City were denied when Chaplin’s fierce finish from a Jonson Clarke-Harris knockdown was disallowed for offside in the build-up.

An end-to-end affair saw scrambles in both boxes but City snatched the winner when Michael Doyle’s free-kick was headed back inside by Dominic Hyam and Willis hurled himself forward to head home from close range.

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