West Bromwich Albion 2-0 Coventry City: Frank Lampard suffers first defeat as Sky Blues boss

Alex Mowatt and Karlan Grant scored in each half to end West Brom's run of draws with a 2-0 victory over Coventry and condemn Frank Lampard to his first defeat as boss.

West Brom were building a reputation for being the league's draw specialists having drawn 10 of their last 11 Championship meetings, but Carlos Corberan's side finally managed to turn one into a win and extend their unbeaten run to 12 matches.

The Baggies put themselves in position for a first win in over a month when Mowatt's deflected effort handed him his first goal since September.

West Brom have hit the front and failed to win on five separate occasions before this fixture and they had to weather a second-half storm from Coventry to stop history repeating itself again before Grant's strike sealed the points with 16 minutes remaining to send them back into the play-off places.

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Lampard decided to go with two changes off the back of his first victory as Coventry head coach, with Josh Eccles and Norman Bassette coming into the side for Ellis Simms and Victor Torp. Corberan recalled Mason Holgate into his starting line-up.

The visitors immediately posed the first threat as Bassette broke the offside trap and burst into the penalty area, but Torbjorn Heggem's last-ditch challenge came to the rescue.

West Brom drew first blood in the 11th minute thanks to a bit of fortune.

Tom Fellows caused problems down the right and managed to get a shot away, but it was blocked into the path of Mowatt who drilled through a crowded penalty area off Eccles and beyond Brad Collins.

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto failed to make contact with Ephron Mason-Clark's delivery towards the far post and let West Brom off the hook.

Coventry looked the more threatening to get an equaliser before the break, this time a neat combination of play between Sakamoto and Bassette set Eccles free, but he was denied by Alex Palmer.

The away side once again fluffed their lines in front of goal when Milan van Ewijk crossed into a teasing area, but Torp's header took the ball off the toes of Jack Rudoni who was waiting behind to put into an empty net.

Coventry dominated the second half but could not find a way past Palmer, with former Albion forward Brandon Thomas-Asante sending a cross to Sakamoto who saw his header saved at the far post.

Against the run of play, West Brom all of a sudden had a two-goal cushion.

Grant gathered the ball deep inside Coventry territory and a lovely bit of footwork took three defenders out of play before he expertly buried into the bottom corner to give West Brom a much-needed three points.

The managers

West Brom's Carlos Corberan:

"The result was important for us. It's true we managed some moments well in the game, fortunately they couldn't score.

"I think the first half after we scored we lost the middle of the pitch - we didn't manage some aspects well which gave them the opportunity to cross.

"All the effort we are doing are not coming with results, we know for everyone the results are most important but we are not going to find excuses we want to find a way to improve this team and give what this club deserve."

Coventry's Frank Lampard:

"We have to take the positives out of it because we have to, in this league games come thick and fast.

"It's early days. There were periods of intensity and what we are trying to do. I felt I saw bits of that but won't get carried away.

"It's not the team I want it to be yet. We have work to do but we have been effective in the work we've done in the two weeks.

"They (players) shouldn't drop their heads, they must absolutely take confidence from the good things.

"Some defeats hit you in different ways, it's not nice because you want to win games but at this stage we have to focus on that to keep confidence and build confidence because of where we are in the league, we want to be higher.

"We were good in parts of the game but lose it and that's the reality.

"Until that point (Grant's goal), Brad (Collins) isn't making saves and it's important we see that side of it because its easy to look loosely that it's a defeat these are a strong team and we know that, a top-six team.

"We more than matched them in general play and being clinical is key, the players know that. When you're creating it's a positive, finishing is the most important bit but we need to get that right."

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