Tag: Coventry

Coventry City have been going through a bumpy ride for the last couple of years and manager Steven Pressley has accepted that it was never going to be easy to rebuild the club that had been in decline for more than a decade. Coventry were once in the Premier league not in the distant past, but they have since slipped down the tables and are currently playing in the third division. They could easily find themselves in the bottom of the pyramid if they failed to avoid relegation this season.

Coventry are perilously close to the relegation zone with several matches left in the campaign. This has led to calls for the sacking of Steven Pressley, but the manager has defended his actions so far by saying that the rebuilding job at the club cannot be done overnight. He has pointed out to the several years of decline that the club has had to go through. Despite the troubled times at the club, Pressley is confident that the fans will be able to come out much stronger. Coventry still could possibly get into the Championship via the play-offs.

After 32 matches in the campaign, they are 14 points behind Peterborough United. They finally managed to arrest the slide of three consecutive defeats with a draw against Shrewsbury.

“You always want to win but what we have to recognise is the building process, and we’ve probably been victims of our own success because the acceleration of the team was so quick and so good for the first four or five months. But I said during that period that with a young side and developing squad that there would be difficult periods along the way, and we’re going through that now. There is no way you will ever get a smooth rise with no blips along the way,” said Pressley.

Coventry City were expected to be contenders for promotion in League One, but they have been disappointing so far and have managed a mediocre 10th position after just over half of the season. The fortunes of the team did not improve even into 2014 after they could only manage a 1-1 draw with Oldham during the weekend. Coventry manager Steven Pressley, though, was extremely upbeat after the match, as he believed that his team should have had all three points rather than just one. He said that Coventry were the only team in the match looking to get a win.

The positive for Pressley comes from Coventry’s recent form, as they are undefeated – apart from the 2-1 win over Swindon – in the last few matches. They will be now looking to convert the draws into victories, as there still remains a possibility of qualifying for the play-offs. After a 4-2 win over Peterborough United in the last match, Coventry looked confident in all areas of the, but they were unable to convert their chances into goals.

Oldham Athletic took the lead in the match through Clarke-Harris just the stroke of half-time, but Coventry managed to get back into the encounter through Baker’s goal in the 73rd minute.

“When you perform like we did you need to score more than one goal and we’ve got to keep a clean sheet. Oldham are a very well organised side and we can’t concede the goal that we did just before half time. Like Peterborough it was a goal from a set play and we talk about responsibility and not letting your man score but what also came out of today was that we were still that goal down with 25 minutes to play,” said the Coventry manager after the match to the club’s official site.