A PROUD Mark Robins hailed Coventry City’s win over Birmingham City a special day as the Sky Blues strengthened their hold on a play-off place in front of a record crowd at the CBS Arena.
Josh Eccles’ first career goal set Coventry on their way inside three minutes, before Viktor Gyokeres’ penalty doubled the lead before the half-time break.
“I’m very proud. In a nutshell, the whole day was special,” said Robins. “The fact we started as brightly as we did, from the first attack we’ve gone 1-0 up, that gets the big crowd’s tails up and it was loud, it was akin to Wembley.
“The second goal was a penalty with some good play, it touched the lad’s hand. We created a number of chances in the second half and we had one disallowed for offside, but the move for that reminded me of Dean Saunders.
“They look really confident and they have done for a while, at the start of the season we couldn’t get our legs going. Three points after seven and what has come after it has been incredible.
“Twenty clean sheets is phenomenal and 40 points at home is fantastic when you look back to the start of this campaign.”
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