Coventry City 0-0 Middlesbrough: Sky Blues held in Championship play-off first leg

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Coventry striker Matty Godden and Middlesbrough midfielder Hayden Hackney

Coventry City failed to registry an effort connected people astatine the CBS Arena arsenic they were held to a goalless gully by Middlesbrough successful the Championship play-off semi-final archetypal leg.

Michael Carrick's Boro were the greater menace successful a tense but mediocre contest.

They came closest to scoring erstwhile Chuba Akpom and Isaiah Jones brought first-half saves from keeper Ben Wilson.

Mark Robins' broadside volition request to amended successful Wednesday's 2nd limb astatine the Riverside Stadium.

The Championship's 2 apical scorers, 29-goal Akpom and City's 21-goal striker Viktor Gyokeres, managed conscionable 1 effort connected people effort betwixt them, erstwhile Wilson touched the Middlesbrough forward's changeable connected to the bar.

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Line-ups

Coventry

Formation 3-5-2

13Wilson
16McNally
5McFadzean
3Doyle
7Norton-Cuffy
28EcclesSubstituted forAllenat 66'minutes
6Kelly
38Hamer
27Bidwell
17Gyökeres
24Godden

Substitutes

1Moore
2Panzo
8Allen
11Wilson-Esbrand
14Sheaf
18Maguire
23Dabo

Middlesbrough

Formation 4-2-3-1

1Steffen
14Smith
17McNair
26Lenihan
3Giles
30Hackney
4Mowatt
2JonesSubstituted forForssat 68'minutes
29AkpomBooked astatine 79mins
8McGree
10ArcherSubstituted forCrooksat 83'minutes

Substitutes

6Fry
7Barlaser
15Dijksteel
21Forss
23Roberts
25Crooks
27Bola

Referee:Robert Madley

Attendance:28,874

Live Text

Match ends, Coventry City 0, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Coventry City 0, Middlesbrough 0.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Brooke Norton-Cuffy.
Matt Crooks (Middlesbrough) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Jamie Allen (Coventry City).
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Gustavo Hamer (Coventry City).
Hayden Hackney (Middlesbrough) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Gustavo Hamer (Coventry City).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Matt Crooks replaces Cameron Archer.
Attempt blocked. Gustavo Hamer (Coventry City) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Liam Kelly.
Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Foul by Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough).
Kyle McFadzean (Coventry City) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle McFadzean (Coventry City).
Foul by Cameron Archer (Middlesbrough).
Gustavo Hamer (Coventry City) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Gustavo Hamer (Coventry City).