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Coventry stretched their lead at the top of the Championship to eight points after a hard-fought 1-0 win over Swansea. Ephron Mason-Clark’s emphatic finish just before half-time was enough to give Frank Lampard’s side a ninth home Championship win of the season.
But the usually free-scoring Sky Blues were made to work hard for the points and were perhaps somewhat fortunate to have found themselves in front at half-time. The resolute visitors had done a fine job in keeping the hosts quiet but were undone a minute before the break by Mason-Clark’s opener.
It failed to spark Coventry into life with the hosts fading once again after a good spell of pressure early in the second half. It was the visitors who enjoyed the best of the second-half chances and could well have snatched a point with better finishing after both Liam Cullen and Melker Widell wasted good chances to equalise.
