Haji Wright has now been Coventry Metropolis’s hero for the second time prior to now 4 days.
Wright scored the profitable aim for Frank Lampard’s squad on Tuesday because the Sky Blues downed visiting Millwall 2-1 on the CBS Area. The U.S. males’s nationwide crew ahead took his season whole as much as 10 together with his second-half strike, making it the sixth-consecutive marketing campaign through which Wright has recorded double digits.
Each groups went into halftime deadlocked at 1-1 after Millwall’s Mihailo Ivanovic cancelled out Romain Esse’s opening aim for Coventry Metropolis.
As each side pushed for a late winner, it was Wright who delivered with 12 minutes to play. Brandon Thomas-Asante laid off a go within the field for Wright, who delivered a left-footed end into the bottom-left nook.
The Sky Blues would cling on to assert their seventeenth league victory of the season, transferring 9 factors away from third-place Middlesbrough within the race for computerized promotion.
Wright logged 81 minutes within the match, making his twenty seventh look of the season in all competitions.
“He deserves an enormous shout,” Lampard mentioned postmatch in a membership interview about Wright’s efficiency. “His general sport tonight impressed me extra than simply his aim involvements. He’s working, he’s working, he’s urgent defenders and serving to. He acquired his aim which is what he deserved.”
Up subsequent for Coventry Metropolis is a visit to Norwich Metropolis on January 26 because the league leaders search their third-straight win.