Wolves res 1 Coventry res 3
Wolves' experienced understudies fluffed their lines on a wretched night for Bobby Mimms' second string at Molineux as Coventry claimed victory.Wolves' experienced understudies fluffed their lines on a wretched night for Bobby Mimms' second string at Molineux as Coventry claimed victory, writes Mark Douglas. The Wolves boss had called for a reaction from the players who find themselves on the outside looking in but there was little evidence of it as a young Coventry side earned their first reserve points of the season. Aside from a tidy display from Jay Bothroyd, there were few positives to draw from a thoroughly disappointing night. Most of the 385 crowd had probably come to see how £1.5m man Freddy Eastwood would react after being dropped from the first team on Saturday but, handed a chance to put himself back in Mick McCarthy's thoughts for the trip to Plymouth, he was no more than a marginal figure throughout. He set up Bothroyd's slick equaliser on 10 minutes with a precise pass but, apart from that, he was quiet before being replaced by Liam Hughes on 83 minutes. Read the full report in the Express & Star.
Wolves' experienced understudies fluffed their lines on a wretched night for Bobby Mimms' second string at Molineux as Coventry claimed victory, writes Mark Douglas.
The Wolves boss had called for a reaction from the players who find themselves on the outside looking in but there was little evidence of it as a young Coventry side earned their first reserve points of the season.
Aside from a tidy display from Jay Bothroyd, there were few positives to draw from a thoroughly disappointing night.
The game ended anxiously with skipper Stephen Gleeson stretchered off and shipped to New Cross for scans after a clash of heads.
Defender Rob Edwards aggravated his knee injury and was forced to hobble off in the first half and there was some calamitous defending for all three Coventry goals.
Most of the 385 crowd had probably come to see how £1.5m man Freddy Eastwood would react after being dropped from the first team on Saturday but, handed a chance to put himself back in Mick McCarthy's thoughts for the trip to Plymouth, he was no more than a marginal figure throughout.
He set up Bothroyd's slick equaliser on 10 minutes with a precise pass but, apart from that, he was quiet before being replaced by Liam Hughes on 83 minutes.
By the time Eastwood had slipped his pass to Bothroyd, Wolves were already one behind.
Coventry had taken the lead after just two minutes when winger David Burtoft delivered a stinging cross that Donovan Simmons headed past a helpless Graham Stack.
Coventry regained the lead five minutes after Wolves' goal, with Burtoft again the provider for Wayne Andrews to head home in a virtual carbon copy of their opening strike.
Against the run of play, Andrews grabbed his second and sealed the win when he latched on to Mark Little's chronically underhit back pass and steered the ball past Stack.
The late stages were completely overshadowed by Gleeson's injury, which left him lying motionless on the Molineux pitch for more than 10 minutes.
Wolves: Stack, Little, Mulgrew, Potter, Edwards (Riley 40), L. Collins, E. Bennett, Gleeson (capt) (Salmon 90), Eastwood (Hughes 84), Bothroyd, Rosa.
Unused subs: Lumley, Ijaha.
