Frank Lampard celebrates Coventry’s ‘spot-on’ performance in rout of Millwall

Coventry head coach Frank Lampard felt his in-form side produced a faultless performance in thumping Millwall 4-0 on the road.

The Sky Blues are the top scorers in the Championship with 22 in eight games and possess the top individual marksman in the division, with Haji Wright’s two goals at The Den taking him up to seven league strikes this season.

Millwall are the only team to beat Coventry in the campaign so far, in the Carabao Cup in August, but there was no sign of a repeat as the visitors moved up to second, two points behind early-season pacesetters Middlesbrough.

Lampard said: “A really good performance because that’s a tough place to come – it’s a strong squad, strong team they have and the feeling is the stadium is hard to come here and get tight wins, let alone finish the way we did.

“Everything was spot-on from the lads in a busy week – to come here in the middle of the week is a tough challenge.

“It was great how we started the game, great how we dealt with everything in between, great how we finished the game.

“We changed the system after we went 2-0 up and blocked off a lot of the problems they could give us, which they sort of did at times, but the lads dealt with all that tactical stuff really well.

“He (Wright) has gone up levels because he’s easy to work with, he wants to get better and I think we’re seeing the progression of him.”

Wright opened the scoring for Coventry when he tapped in Brandon Thomas-Asante’s unselfish ball across before doubling his tally with a thumping header from Milan van Ewijk’s wonderful cross.

Ellis Simms nodded in a third from a yard out before fellow substitute Kaine Kesler-Hayden opened his Sky Blues account in the closing minutes.

Millwall boss Alex Neil said: “Both boxes decided the game.

“I thought we had as many opportunities as Coventry did, but we weren’t clinical enough and obviously the first goal affects the game.

“We make a mistake, they manage to then go and capitalise.

“I thought you could see after that there were a few misplaced passes probably in the next two or three minutes after that – you could see that it certainly rattled us a little bit.

“I thought we started the second half really well, we had a couple of really good opportunities to get the next goal, didn’t take any of them.

“I thought their second goal – their striker drops down, plays it wide then runs off us and lands in the middle of the box – was completely unlike us and that made it difficult.

“Tonight, the game was decided in that box and that box, we weren’t good enough.”