"I could smell it": Lampard hints he anticipated first Coventry loss before Wrexham comeback win

Frank Lampard has claimed that helium could "smell" that Coventry City were astatine hazard of giving up a half-time pb earlier they mislaid 3-2 astatine Wrexham connected Friday night.

The Sky Blues went into the fixture successful North Wales sitting astatine the apical of the Championship table with a 12-match unbeaten grounds successful the 2nd tier.

When Ephron Mason-Clark gave the visitors a 1-0 pb astatine fractional time, it appeared that they were connected their mode to establishing a six-point vantage astatine the apical of the standings.

Instead, Kieffer Moore scored a hat-trick successful the abstraction of 23 second-half minutes to enactment Wrexham 3-1 up earlier Tatsuhiro Sakamoto's wonderment extremity proved to beryllium thing much than a consolation.

While Coventry stay with a three-point advantage, determination volition beryllium a feeling of what if aft Wrexham's stirring comeback catapulted them into 11th presumption and six points adrift of 3rd spot.

Kieffer Moore completes his hat-trick to stun league leaders Coventry! ? pic.twitter.com/iiySjxUjj2

Lampard reflects connected "extraordinary" Coventry streak

After the game, Lampard was keen to praise Coventry's 12-game unbeaten run, describing it arsenic "extraordinary" erstwhile they has been the lone unbeaten squad remaining successful the apical 4 divisions successful 2025-26.

Nevertheless, astatine a clip erstwhile helium was required to sanction a weakened backmost four, helium suggested that helium was not assured that Coventry could clasp retired successful the 2nd fractional contempt holding a lead.

Lampard told Sky Sports: "This squad has been bonzer for 12 games, to bash what we person done successful the Championship, not galore teams tin bash it. Then contiguous we were mean successful our performance.

"We person had a challenging week due to the fact that we mislaid 3 of the backmost four. But that's not pointing astatine the players who came into those areas, that's looking astatine america arsenic a full and saying we were not rather astatine it today.

"It's a hard game. We knew that before. The mode they play, the ambiance and the situation here. I smelt it astatine half-time, adjacent astatine 1-0 up. I could odor it. We conscionable dropped a bit.

"Maybe that happens erstwhile you are 12 unbeaten and triumph six connected the bounce. We can't judge our ain hype. This league is long. And don't worry, we are good. But this is what happens to mean teams, and we haven't been that.

Reason for Coventry to worry?

Coventry struggled defensively during past weekend's 3-1 triumph implicit Watford, truthful it was not a large astonishment that they were yet overpowered by Wrexham.

The existent authorities of play volition go clearer erstwhile Saturday's and Sunday's fixtures person been played, but Coventry tin spend to crook their attraction to a location brushwood with Sheffield United connected November 4.

A travel to Stoke City 4 days aboriginal is simply a large test, but inactive holding a nine-point vantage implicit sixth means that Lampard and co should debar immoderate distractions astatine this signifier of the campaign.

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