Coventry City 0 Huddersfield Town 0 - Terriers earn point in St Andrew’s stalemate

Huddersfield Town and Coventry City fought out a drab 0-0 stalemate at St Andrew’s.
Huddersfield Town's Fraizer Campbell and Coventry City's Gustavo Hamer (right) battle for the ball. Picture: PAHuddersfield Town's Fraizer Campbell and Coventry City's Gustavo Hamer (right) battle for the ball. Picture: PA
Huddersfield Town's Fraizer Campbell and Coventry City's Gustavo Hamer (right) battle for the ball. Picture: PA

Two separate three-minute spells in each half produced the total sum of the game’s excitement as Isaac Mbenza missed a glorious chance for Huddersfield and Max Biamou hit a post for Coventry.

The point extended the Sky Blues’ unbeaten run to eight matches, with five draws and three wins in that sequence, as they remain 18th in the Sky Bet Championship – six points above the bottom three – ahead of Saturday’s trip to Sheffield Wednesday.

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But it was Huddersfield who looked the more threatening throughout, with Coventry goalkeeper Ben Wilson saving well from Mbenza and Alex Pritchard as the point moved the Terriers up to 14th place.

Huddersfield boss Carlos Corberan made six changes, with Belgian forward Mbenza returning. After a quiet start, the game exploded into life with three big chances. Coventry keeper Wilson saved Mbenza’s low shot after Lewis O’Brien had robbed Ben Sheaf just outside the area.

The Sky Blues broke swiftly from the resulting corner, Jamie Allen finding Gustavo Hamer, who exchanged passes with Callum O’Hare before drilling inches over from the edge of the area.

But the best opportunity of the three fell to Mbenza as he latched on to O’Brien’s fine through ball and rounded Wilson, but steered into the side-netting from a tight angle with an unmarked Juninho Bacuna screaming for a square pass for a tap-in.

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Only the width of the woodwork denied Coventry as Fankaty Dabo robbed Harry Toffolo and his near-post cross was touched onto the post by Biamou and ricocheted off the recovering Rarmani Edmonds-Green and back onto the upright before the Huddersfield defender hacked clear.

Huddersfield almost capitalised but Pritchard tipped wide by Wilson.

Coventry: Wilson, Ostigard, McFadzean, Hyam, Dabo (Da Costa 89), Hamer, Sheaf, McCallum, O’Hare (Giles 89), Allen, Walker (Biamou 62). Unused substitutes: Pask, Bakayoko, Camp, Shipley, Kastaneer, Bapaga.

Huddersfield: Schofield, Pipa, Edmonds-Green, Sarr, Toffolo, Eiting, Hogg, O’Brien, Mbenza (Diakhaby 87), Bacuna (Pritchard 75), Campbell. Unused substitutes: Vallejo, Duhaney, Crichlow-Noble, Brown, Rowe, Jackson, Joel Pereira.

Referee: T Robinson (West Sussex).

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