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Cycle back to the final weekend of November and things looked very different for Coventry City.
A 3-1 win over Charlton saw them go 10 points clear at the top of the table. They had lost just one game all season, and won 11 of their last 12.
Frank Lampard, as always remained grounded, but the talk around Coventry was more a case of what records they could break, rather than whether they might not even get promoted.
Then, a 3-0 defeat at Ipswich. Since the start of December, they have won just four of 13. Leads have been chucked away, a once relentless stream of goals has dried up.
The theory was that Coventry’s thin squad had run out of steam, and a few additions in January would kickstart things again.
| P | W | D | L | GD | PTS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlesbrough | 31 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 61 |
| 2 | Coventry | 31 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 28 | 59 |
| 3 | Ipswich | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 22 | 54 |
| 4 | Hull | 31 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 54 |
| 5 | Millwall | 31 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 53 |
| 6 | Wrexham | 31 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 47 |
| 7 | Preston | 31 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 47 |
| 8 | Bristol City | 31 | 13 | 7 |
It was a hypothesis that looked solid as they won back-to-back games from behind in the middle of last month against Leicester and Millwall.
But since then, just a point from three games. Two leads lost in defeats at Norwich and QPR, and a failure to break down Oxford at home last Saturday. For context, the U’s conceded 20 seconds into their next game at home to Norwich in midweek.
