Frank Lampard raves about ‘outstanding’ Coventry’s reaction to falling 2-0 down

Frank Lampard praised his outstanding Coventry side who came from two goals down to beat 10-man West Brom 3-2 at the CBS Arena.

Aune Heggebo’s brace put the visitors two goals ahead but Josh Eccles halved the deficit before the break.

And after Jayson Molumby had been sent off four minutes into the second half, Ellis Simms and Victor Torp were on target to make it nine wins in 10 for the Championship leaders.

Lampard said: “Outstanding. I thought we played well all of the game but just made a couple of mistakes that are not normally our thing this season.

“But the reaction to keep playing in the first half, even with the feeling of 2-0, sometimes can take the wind out of yourselves. I thought our players were very positive with that.

“The goal before half-time, which we deserved, helped because that gave the players belief. I spoke a lot about that at half-time and then my feeling was that we would go out and get something out of this game.

“I’m delighted with the way they’ve completed that game.

“I think the red card helped in terms of taking away a counter attack threat, which was their threat mainly in the first half, but it was a red card and that’s just football.

“It was a clear one, so then you’ve got to deal with that and deal with people expecting you to break them down. But I thought we did that really well.

“We had a 20-minute spell where we obviously scored the two goals. But I think even with 11 men on I would have fancied us in the second half because of the way we were approaching the game.”

West Brom head coach Ryan Mason said his side need to learn from their lack of discipline after Molumby was sent off shortly after half-time.

The former Spurs midfielder said: “Obviously very frustrated. With the way the game panned out as well. Something we have to accept, learn from, and try and improve for sure.

“We probably created the better chances (before the red card), scored two really good goals. Obviously they’re a good team, they were going to have moments and momentum and periods in the game where they got in the final third and put a lot of crosses in.

“The two goals we scored were really good and we knew that we could hurt them and we showed that today, but to go down to 10 men for such a long period of time in this stadium and the moment they’re in, it was always going to be difficult to see the game out.

“Disappointingly, we conceded so quickly after going down to 10 men and then you enter the period where you don’t want the game to get away from you and we managed that part well, stayed alive in the game until the end but nothing really fell our way.”

On Molumby’s red card, Mason said: “I’ll protect the players – it’s my job, my responsibility – but I think (it is) a lack of discipline in that moment.

“He’s given the referee an easy decision to make and certainly something that we need to learn from and avoid happening again, especially where it was on the pitch.”