Frank Lampard's Sky Blues bounced back from a heavy defeat in true fashion with an impressive display, in front of a big crowd, with the helping hand of a poor away performance from Wayne Rooney's Plymouth Argyle at the CBS Arena this afternoon.
The Sky Blues opened the scoring after five minutes in front of a sell out crowd in Coventry. A well weighted cross from Ben Sheaf from just inside the penalty area was met at the far post by Tatsuhiro Sakamoto and he was able to head it past Daniel Grimshaw, who could've dealt with the goal better.
After twenty minutes on the clock, an inform Ephron Mason-Clark was able to beat the Argyle defenders and teed up Coventry born midfielder Josh Eccles to powerfully strike his second goal of the season from outside the penalty area.
Plymouth's day went from bad to worse in the 39th minute after a nicely lofted ball by Eccles was met by Mason-Clark who beat the Argyle back line and comfortably finished past Grimshaw who was left hopeless one on one by one of the most inform players in the Championship lately.
Just before the break, Coventry found their fourth goal of the half as the goals continued to flow. High pressure from Jack Rudoni forced a mistake from Adam Randall deep in their own half which Rudoni was able to lay it off for Eccles who fired home comfortably for his brace and the Sky Blues fourth of the game.
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The second half began with a Sky Blue change as goalscorer Mason-Clark departed for midfielder Victor Torp due to a 'tight hamstring', according to Frank Lampard.
Plymouth struggled to get into the game at all and barely left their half throughout the half thanks to a professional performance from Lampard's Sky Blues throughout.
Grimshaw made an excellent save from an outstanding shot by Torp on the left hand side, just outside the penalty area but the keeper was at full strength denied the Sky Blues getting a fifth.
Plymouth, who were hampered by many injuries to key players, were left totally outplayed for almost the whole game and their away woes continued as pressure mounts on Rooney.
Callum Wright replaced an injured Mustapha Bundu in the first half but was sent off for the visitors in the 87th minute which rubbed suit into the wounds for Argyle after a late tackle on Joel Latibeaudiere in front of the dugouts.
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MOTM: Josh Eccles (CCFC)
A dominant and professional boxing day performance from the Sky Blues saw them rise to 14th in the Championship, as Plymouth remained 24th and rock bottom after another poor away performance which sums up their season so far under Wayne Rooney.