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Eight wins from Coventry’s previous nine matches restored the Sky Blues as runaway leaders, their promotion back to the Premier League increasingly viewed as a formality with less than four weeks of the season remaining.<\/p>\n
Hull are among the automatic promotion hopefuls who have stuttered below them and, while they dropped points to relegation-battling Oxford United three days earlier, the Tigers highlighted just how hard Lampard’s side will have to work to get over the line.<\/p>\n
The hosts were quick to showcase their own promotion credentials with a brand of relentless attacking football that had Coventry under huge early pressure.<\/p>\n
After Cody Drameh found himself on the end of two chances inside the first five minutes, Joe Gelhardt sent a shot just wide for the Tigers.<\/p>\n
Hull’s biggest chance of the first half, however, came from a goalkeeping mistake after Carl Rushworth clattered into team-mate Liam Kitching as he tried to pluck a teasing cross from the air.<\/p>\n
And while the ball fell invitingly for John Egan in the box, Kitching was able to recover and reposition himself for a goal-saving block while Rushworth was still lying on the ground.<\/p>\n
Coventry improved after that scare but failed to trouble Hull keeper Ivor Pandur at any stage.<\/p>\n
Containment remained the aim for Coventry after the break when Matt Grimes was booked for cynically pulling Amir Hadziahmetovic back as the Bosnia-Herzegovina international threatened to spring free.<\/p>\n
With video assistant referee [VAR] technology not in use in the Championship, the most decisive moment of the second half, when the ball struck Coyle’s arm in the box, was missed and barely disputed.<\/p>\n
Beyond that, Coventry failed to generate a second-half shot on target while Hull were limited to tame efforts from Mohamed Belloumi and Gelhardt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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