{"id":505346,"date":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505346\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:50:07","slug":"chris-wilder-coventry-and-frank-lampard-will-play-in-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505346\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wilder: Coventry and Frank Lampard will play in the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheffield United<\/a> boss Chris Wilder has backed Coventry<\/a> to secure promotion to the Premier League<\/a> after his side lost to Frank Lampard’s charges on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Sky Blues rode their luck at Bramall Lane and the Blades took a deserved lead early in the second half, having dominated the first 45 minutes, through Harrison Burrows<\/a>‘ deflected shot.<\/p>\n

But Lampard’s side responded four minutes after going behind, with Haji Wright<\/a> firing his 14th league goal of the season before Jack Rudoni headed them in front five minutes later.<\/p>\n

The Blades remain nine points adrift of the playoff places and boss Chris Wilder said he was delighted with “90%” of his side’s display and that five minutes of “naivety” cost them two goals.<\/p>\n

He said: “When you play as well as we have played tonight, you have got to win the game and we haven’t.<\/p>\n

“And I suppose, from Frank and Coventry’s point of view — they said, ‘we’ve not been great, but we’ve ended up winning the game.’<\/p>\n

“I wish them all well and all the best. I think they’ll obviously go on now to play in the Premier League next year and nights like tonight cement that.”<\/p>\n

Lampard says there will be no let-up from his side after they won to move five points clear at the top of the Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coventry, who held a 10-point lead at the top in November, were knocked off top spot by Middlesbrough earlier this month, but have regained momentum with three straight wins in their bid for a top-flight return for the first time in 25 years.<\/p>\n

Lampard said: “We’re happy because there’s lots of ways to win a game. We’ve won some games in a beautiful fashion this season and when you win games like tonight, they feel just as good.<\/p>\n

“But we all go back tonight and we will sleep well, then we get up and go again tomorrow, because this league is such a challenge.<\/p>\n

Frank Lampard celebrates after Coventry’s win over Sheffield United.\u00a0James Gill – Danehouse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“The minute you think you might have cracked it, you haven’t. Stoke [at home on Saturday] will come around quickly.”<\/p>\n

Coventry have put back-to-back defeats at the end of last month behind them and Lampard added: “It was important that we kept calm and we kept working.<\/p>\n

“And the boys, to be fair, have done that and now we’ve got pretty much fully-fit squad.<\/p>\n

“This league will kick you if you get relaxed, but these last three games have obviously been very good for us.”<\/p>\n

Wilder felt two penalty decisions went against his side, with Femi Seriki<\/a> tumbling under Ephron Mason-Clark’s first-half challenge and substitute Tyrese Campbell<\/a> booked for diving after going down late in the game following Bobby Thomas’ tackle.<\/p>\n

“I thought all three of the officials were not great tonight,” Wilder added. “You can’t afford those decisions to go against, whether the opposition ride their luck a little bit on those decisions and evens itself out, whatever.<\/p>\n

“But still, it doesn’t take away the fact that, for me, there’s something in both of them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has backed Coventry to secure promotion to the Premier League after his side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-505346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}