{"id":28992,"date":"2025-11-26T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28992"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:04:11","slug":"coventry-win-showdown-with-promotion-rivals-middlesbrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28992","title":{"rendered":"Coventry win showdown with promotion rivals Middlesbrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Championship leaders Coventry bolstered their bid to reach the Premier League with a dramatic 4-2 win against promotion rivals Middlesbrough on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Lampard&#8217;s side struck twice in the opening 15 minutes through Ellis Simms&#8217; powerful finish and a Liam Kitching header at the Riverside Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesbrough responded through Morgan Whittaker before the break and equalised soon after the restart with a Bobby Thomas own goal.<\/p>\n<p>But Kitching and Simms both netted again in the final five minutes to strengthen Coventry&#8217;s promotion prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesbrough, who dropped to third place, introduced new boss Kim Hellberg before kick-off following his appointment on Monday to replace Rob Edwards after his move to Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Caretaker Adi Viveash was in charge for the last time, with former Hammarby manager Hellberg&#8217;s first game coming against Derby on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Coventry, who last played in the Premier League in 2000-01, are 10 points clear of second-placed Stoke, who won 3-0 at home to Charlton.<\/p>\n<p>Derby ruined Vitor Matos&#8217; first game in charge of Swansea with a 2-1 victory at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ward and Lars-Jorgen Salvesen scored either side of the interval as Derby climbed to seventh place with a sixth win from seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hull forwards Jaden Philogene and Chuba Akpom returned to haunt their former club as Ipswich moved up to fourth place with a 2-0 win at the MKM Stadium, while Watford drew 1-1 with Preston at Vicarage Road.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton crushed Leicester 3-0 at St Mary&#8217;s in a clash between two clubs relegated from the top-flight last season.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich&#8217;s dismal run of eight successive home defeats came to an end but they still finished frustrated Oxford&#8217;s stoppage-time equaliser rescued a 1-1 draw.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Championship leaders Coventry bolstered their bid to reach the Premier League with a dramatic 4-2 win against promotion rivals Middlesbrough on Tuesday. Frank Lampard&#8217;s side struck twice in the opening 15 minutes through Ellis Simms&#8217; powerful finish and a Liam Kitching header at the Riverside Stadium. Middlesbrough responded through Morgan Whittaker before the break and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}