The English Soccer League Championship season resumed on Friday with a pair of in-form American forwards discovering the again of the web.
Josh Sargent and Haji Wright each scored in respective league victories for his or her golf equipment. Sargent helped spring a 2-1 comeback win for Norwich Metropolis whereas Wright sealed a 3-1 highway triumph for Coventry Metropolis.
Wright helped seal a 3-1 highway win over the host Terriers on Friday, capping off a modern victory for the Sky Blues. The current CONCACAF Nations League winner now has 16 targets for Mark Robins’ squad throughout all competitions this season.
Wright began the match and delivered the fourth and ultimate total aim of the match forward of second half stoppage time. His low left-footed strike discovered the bottom-right nook for a 3-1 Coventry Metropolis lead.
Coventry Metropolis sits seventh within the league standings following Friday’s win, 4 factors again of Sargent and Norwich Metropolis.
“Haji’s superb as properly, he’s in an amazing run of kind, discovering the web. It was nice end on his left foot and that’s what he’s able to,” Coventry’s Ellis Simms stated postmatch about Wright.
Up subsequent for the Sky Blues is a house date with Cardiff Metropolis on Monday.
Josh Sargent helps spring comeback win for Norwich Metropolis
Josh Sargent was additionally amongst the targets on Friday in league play.
David Wagner’s males rallied from a first-half deficit to defeat visiting Plymouth Argyle 2-1 at Carrow Street.
Sargent’s flick-on right-footed end within the 67th minute helped the Canaries tie the match after the hour mark. Christian Fassnacht’s nook kick was slotted residence by Sargent for his 14th aim of the season and tenth of 2024.
An Ashley Phillips personal aim propelled the Canaries in entrance for an eventual 2-1 residence victory.
It marks a optimistic return to motion for Sargent, who missed March’s U.S. males’s nationwide group by harm.
Norwich Metropolis subsequent visits Leicester Metropolis on Monday in a fast turnaround for each golf equipment.