Coventry Metropolis, who reached the play-offs final season, laid down a marker with a 7-1 thrashing of QPR which supervisor Frank Lampard described as a “a efficiency of high quality, mentality and angle”.
Parkin: “Coventry are filled with targets – that is 12 in two video games. Certainly one of my issues with them final 12 months was there was an over-reliance on Jack Rudoni and he performed effectively and contributed, however to be getting different targets from the likes of Victor Torp and [Brandon] Thomas-Asante, Haji Wright, offers them a very good alternative to emulate what they did final season.
“My one criticism in direction of the tail-end of final 12 months was they have been a bit bit one-dimensional, loads of balls into the field, however they appear to be scoring several types of targets.
“Usually groups endure a hangover if you get overwhelmed within the play-offs, however no one anticipated them getting there final 12 months and such has been the development underneath Frank Lampard they will put that to at least one facet and deal with the positives of the second half of final season and actually assault this 12 months.
“A little bit of a press release win, a press release week with the quantity of targets they're getting. It is simply essential they preserve maintain of Bobby Thomas and Rudoni as a result of there's loads of hypothesis about these two.”
