Coleman urges his team to maintain winning ways

Coventry City boss Chris Coleman has urged his players to keep up with their winning habit and has warned against complacency, otherwise they will see their remote play off chances dissolve in front of their eyes.

Mr Coleman said to the CT, "Any manager will tell you that 4-0 with 20 minutes to go is a nice scoreline, but that rarely happens for us, but if you win 1-0 and do it regularly, then you are a good team. And it says a lot about your quality and team spirit because it is a hard when you are only hanging on to one goal."

"Another 1-0, another three points, will do us. If we can score more goals, great, but as long as we win, that's the main thing. Once we stray from that formula, once we start thinking we can be a little bit more free and easy and try to string 30 passes together, it will fall down for us."

"It is hard work and sometimes it is a grind and not pretty, but if you look at our results, in the main they have been effective performances. Keeping cleansheets and picking up points and everyone goes home with a smile on their face, and that's what everyone cares about.



The City manager went on to add: Our supporters are not going to complain if we win again on Saturday in a not very pretty game. All they care about is that glimmer of hope that we can have a really good end to the season.

"We are in a really good position as three of our next four games are at home, and at the start of the season if someone had offered us that we would have taken it and I am sure the supporters would, So we have to make the most of it.

"We have got to get the three points to keep us in there, knocking at the door at the right end of the table, but once we start believing in our own hype, if you like, it will be bad news, I promise you.