Coventry City 0-0 Oldham Athletic
Coventry City remain unbeaten at home but they are still to win a League game and are now rock bottom of League One after a 0-0 draw with Oldham Athletic.
League game number eight of the season and Oldham Athletic, who have recorded the most clean-sheets this season in the Football League were the visitors to the Ricoh Arena for the first of two league games this month.
Tony Mowbray, who seemed to have his excuses in ready during the press conference on Friday, named a team which had Marcus Tudgay back in the starting line up on a cloudy day.
With around 180 fans in the away end, City kicked off and conceded the first corner to an Oldham side in blue shirts, inside three minutes.
Having Jodi Jones in the side, City always have an outlet and that was used in the sixth minute when the former Dagenham player curled wide from twenty yards.
As the Sisu Out chants rang out from the section to the left of the scoreboard, Gael Bigirimana fired at Connor Ripley from range.
Jones fired over in the tenth minute before Oldham who included former City loanee Peter Clarke, had a 13th minute free kick and a shot by Lapado pushed away by Reice Charles-Cook.
Good work from the lively Bigirimana saw him cut the ball back for Sordell to fire wide.
Jones should have been awarded a penalty in the 18th minute when he went down in the are*. However, referee Chris Sarginson was having it none of it. It was Jones who had City’s next chance curling wide in the 22nd minute from a blinding Bigirimana ball and was followed by a corner from which Jordan Turnbull headed wide from.
Oldham had Mark Klok fire into the end where the visiting fans were and Tudgay drove over at the other end.
City, who had now dropped to bottom of the table due to Rochdale winning, had a corner just before the half hour mark. Oldham replied with two corners and Peter Clarke firing high into the stand.
Paul Green was booked for a foul and City had another corner. Ghadzev was booked as Tudgay headed over from a Page cross and Josh Law fired at Charles-Cook as a half between two poor teams came to an end.
Both sides made changes at the break with Ghadzev replaced by Ruben Lameiras, for the Sky Blues who had Charles-Cook make a good save for a as James Sterry was clattered by Charles Dunne. The loanee from Newcastle stayed down and had to be stretchered off with his neck in a brace.
Erwin headed over and struck the bar in the 57th minute. Two minutes later and Charles-Cook had to save following a Lameiras error. That was met by groans as was a Tudgay pass going astray against an Oldham side which was lining up to shoot.
Dunne joined the list of those in the book for a trip on Kelly-Evans but the resulting free kick taken by Jones only resulted in an easy catch for Ripley, in luminous yellow.
The City support in a poor crowd of 8,813 were doing their best to encourage the white and sky blues who had to defend a 69th minute corner and another a minute later.
Klok fired over and Charles-Cook saved again before a poor shot from Sordell went straight at Ripley.
The Sisu Out chants grew louder as the frustration at City’s inabilities in front of goal continued.
With just over six minutes left, Sordell headed over from a corner and Oldham won a corner two miutes later. A good run by Jones won another and Tudgay went close when offside.
Erwin fired again at Charles-Cook but neither side looked capable of finding the net and the sides were deservedly booed off by some of the City support.