Coventry City vs Norwich City; Sky Bet Championship
Coventry City vs Norwich City. Sky Bet Championship.
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Coventry City 1-1 Norwich City: Haji Wright nicks late point for Sky Blues
Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Coventry City and Norwich City at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Saturday; Haji Wright nicks a stoppage-time point for Frank Lampard's Sky Blues.
Saturday 13 September 2025 19:13, UK
Haji Wright's scrambled stoppage-time equaliser earned Coventry a 1-1 draw and prevented Norwich from completing a smash-and-grab raid at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Mathias Kvistgaarden's first-half opener threatened to give the Canaries a third away win in a row in the Sky Bet Championship but their spoiling tactics ultimately cost them.
Just when it looked as though the Sky Blues would be left wondering how they managed to lose a match they dominated, Wright - who had spurned several earlier chances - popped up with the untidiest of goals to rescue a point for Frank Lampard's side in the sixth minute of time added on.
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Coventry were a whisker away from taking the lead in only the fifth minute when Tatsuhiro Sakamoto's brilliant ball into the box was met by a diving header from Ephron Mason-Clark that came off the post.
Mason-Clark threatened again a few minutes later when his effort from the left-hand corner of the area was deflected narrowly over.
Having struggled to get out of their own half in the opening stages, Norwich took the lead after 17 minutes when Jakov Medic played the ball through for Kvistgaarden, who finished well into the bottom corner.
It was the Dane's first goal for the Canaries since his since his summer move from Brondby and it settled the visitors down after their difficult start.
They almost had a second in the 32nd minute when Ante Crnac's pass ran through for Josh Sargent but the American's radar was this time askew as he shot over.
Two Norwich players, Kellan Fisher and goalkeeper Vladan Kovacevic, were booked for time-wasting before half-time as the visitors did an effective job of frustrating their hosts until the break.
The Sky Blues rallied after the restart and their clearest chance yet came with just over an hour gone when Wright blazed wildly off target from Milan van Ewijk's inviting ball into the box.
Another big chance for Wright then went begging when he smashed Sakamoto's cut-back high and wide as the home side began to crank up the pressure again.
Norwich's lead survived again in the 77th minute when Jack Rudoni's corner fell for substitute Brandon Thomas-Asante who tried to scramble it in only to be denied by Kovacevic's reaction save.
It looked as though the equaliser would never come as another clear opportunity was spurned with five minutes remaining as neither Thomas-Asante or Ellis Simms could turn in Van Ewijk's cross inside the six-yard box.
But in the sixth of nine added minutes, it finally went in for Coventry as Van Ewijk dispossessed Harry Darling in the Norwich area and his cut-back was touched on by Simms before Wright forced the ball over the line.
The managers
Coventry's Frank Lampard:
"I thought it was the least we deserved. We played absolutely fantastic against a good team.
"Norwich are a very good team, they've got good players, they recruited in the summer other good players, [they've got] a good coach and we dominated every part of the game.
"Of course, they get their goal, had some breakaway moments - very rare - but everything we wanted out of our team we got; 28 shots, a lot of the possession and expected goals, all that stuff, and it was absolutely the least we deserved.
"It is frustrating (the time-wasting) but it is football, so it's for the referee to deal with that and for us to keep our heads.
"I thought our players kept their heads very well, they kept playing, didn't get overly frustrated because some things were pretty clear today that were going on.
"On another day, you score three or four goals, that's clear, so they were absolutely on it, the players."
Norwich's Liam Manning:
"Naturally, when you get so close to nearly nicking three points, we're disappointed with the manner of the goal we conceded.
"But when you look at the performance, it was one of those where we weren't quite at the level we needed be at - I thought they caused us some real problems.
"We defended too much, we didn't manage the game well enough and when we got it back, we didn't manage to keep it well enough.
"Having said that, I think we performed a lot, lot better when we've been at home and come away with nothing whereas today we weren't where we need to be and we steal a point, which is Championship football.
"We've spoken before about what we would like when we're not at our best and what we did show was a real fight, a real togetherness, a real desire to defend the box, which for the lads on a bad day is really important."
