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Wrexham vs Coventry City; Sky Bet Championship

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Wrexham vs Coventry City. Sky Bet Championship.

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Wrexham 3

  • K Moore (60th minute, 69th minute, 83rd minute)

Coventry City 2

  • E Mason-Clark (22nd minute)
  • T Sakamoto (88th minute)

Wrexham 3-2 Coventry: Kieffer Moore's perfect hat-trick ends Championship leaders City's unbeaten run

Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Wrexham and Coventry City at the Racecourse Ground on Friday night; Kieffer Moore spooked the away side with a perfect hat-trick

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Highlights of the Sky Bet Championship match between Wrexham and Coventry.

Kieffer Moore netted a stunning perfect hat-trick to send Wrexham to a 3-2 win over Coventry, whose unbeaten run went up in smoke.

Coventry looked on course to make it seven wins on the spin when Ephron Mason-Clark opened the scoring with a tidy sliding finish.

The omens were not good for Wrexham given Frank Lampard's side had scored 34 goals in 12 games before arriving in north Wales and the Red Dragons had won only one of their previous seven.

Wrexham always carried a threat though and Moore got his first when sweeping home with his right foot on 60 minutes. The header was next, powering home from another Josh Windass cross eight minutes later.

With Coventry on the ropes and out of ideas, Moore completed the perfect treble when scampering in behind and finishing crisply with his left-foot via a third Windass assist.

Coventry grabbed a late second through Tatsuhiro Sakamoto but ran out of time to grab an equaliser to see their 12-match unbeaten run come to a halt.

Parkinson hails 'statement win'

Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson:

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"It's definitely a statement performance and win for us. Not a statement to anyone else, but for ourselves. I said after the Middlesbrough game [a 1-1 away draw] that it should give us even more belief because it's been growing.

"We've had some terrific performances, but I'm very pleased because this was against an excellent side.

"If you look at Coventry's stats, not just the wins, they're at the top of everything. They've got players in a really good vein of form at the moment.

"I keep saying to everyone, we're not here to stop the opposition.

"We're here to play in a disciplined manner without the ball. But I've got great belief in these players and some of the football we played was at a very high level.

"In fairness to the crowd, they clapped the team off at half-time and you could sense that positivity coming out in the second half.

"The lads have responded in terrific fashion."

Lampard: We went from extraordinary to ordinary

Coventry boss Frank Lampard speaking to Sky Sports:

"We've been extraordinary for 12 games in the Championship, not many teams can do it and today we were ordinary. We've had a challenging week as we lost three of our back four as that's been a strength at the backend of the pitch. But that's not pointing at the players who came in, it was us as a whole, we weren't quite at it.

"I smelt it at half-time. We were 1-0 up and we dropped a little. That can happen when you're unbeaten in 12, maybe we believed in our own hype. I have bee trying to diffuse it all as this league is long. Don't worry, we're good but this is what happens to normal teams. We have to show what we are in the next games."

Moore says 'nice sleep' means he is not snoozing up front

Wrexham hat-trick hero Kieffer Moore:

"I'm not a young pup like a couple of these lads, so I need to make sure I eat the right things and get as much sleep as possible.

"Obviously it's tough with a one-year-old son. But to be fair my wife is amazing. I can thank her for getting a nice sleep.

"Being a Welsh international, when everyone's rested you're going away and playing games again, it does take its toll on your body.

"But I pride myself in the way I look after myself - I do a lot in the gym in my spare time - and recover [after games]. It's one of the biggest things that the outside world doesn't really see."

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