Coventry 1-0 Barnsley: Jordan Willis hits winner for Sky Blues

Saturday 15 September 2018 21:00, UK

Jordan Willis grabbed the only goal of the game as Coventry earned back-to-back league victories for the first time this season with a 1-0 triumph against Barnsley.

As a result, the Tykes suffered their first defeat of the campaign and also extended their 95-year winless sequence at the Sky Blues to 25 matches.

Conor Chaplin should have given the home side a sixth-minute breakthrough when he somehow side-footed wide from six yards.

Jacob Brown spurned two clear-cut chances for Barnsley, firstly when he intercepted Junior Brown's backpass only to see goalkeeper Lee Burge touch his low shot onto a post before firing wide when well-placed from Mamadou Thiam's low cross.

Burge tipped Thiam's 20-yard curler over the bar five minutes into the second half, but at the other end, City were denied when Chaplin's fierce finish from a Jonson Clarke-Harris knockdown was disallowed for offside in the build-up.

An end-to-end affair saw scrambles in both boxes but City snatched the winner when Michael Doyle's free-kick was headed back inside by Dominic Hyam and Willis hurled himself forward to head home from close range.