Prior to kick-off, Frank Lampard was full of praise for Wrexham’s rapid rise up the football pyramid, and the former midfielder quickly discovered the hosts were not going to be pushovers.<\/p>\n
Both sides had chances early on as Josh Windass blazed well over before Liam Kitching headed Matt Grimes’ in-swinging corner narrowly wide.<\/p>\n
Much to the frustration of the home fans, Lewis O’Brien opted against shooting after being picked out by Windass as the hosts competed well with the league leaders.<\/p>\n
After Coventry captain Grimes fired wide from a free-kick, Wrexham were presented with a glorious chance to open the scoring as Windass’ cross ran through to O’Brien who was brilliantly denied by the outstretched leg of Carl Rushworth.<\/p>\n
The Red Dragons were emphatically punished for that miss as, just a minute later, Sakamoto’s lofted ball over the top found Mason-Clark who guided the ball beyond Okonkwo.<\/p>\n
Coventry’s ruthless nature typified why they have been so free-scoring this season, and while Wrexham continued to get into plenty of promising positions, their lack of cutting edge ensured the visitors remained on course for an historic win.<\/p>\n
Max Cleworth’s left-footed pile-driver flew just wide five minutes into the second-half as the hosts remained threatening.<\/p>\n
Coventry grew increasingly reliant on counter-attacks, as evidenced when Haji Wright’s shot trickled wide from a narrow angle.<\/p>\n
But the home side’s pressure told in the 60th minute as Issa Kabore fed Windass who crossed for Moore to send the ball beyond Rushworth from six yards out.<\/p>\n
And they were in dreamland nine minutes later as Windass this time lifted a cross into the box, with Moore steering his header into the bottom corner to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n
Ellis Simms, Victor Torp, Josh Eccles and Jay Dasilva were all summoned from the bench by Lampard as the latter stages of the contest became stretched. <\/p>\n
But Windass again teed up Moore to rifle a left-footed shot beyond Rushworth to complete his treble on 83 minutes – the first in the league by a Wrexham player since Mick Vinter in 1982 against Rotherham.<\/p>\n
Sakamoto’s sumptuous 88th-minute strike – his third of the campaign – set up a nervy finish, although Wrexham held on to clinch all three points as Coventry tasted defeat under Lampard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to kick-off, Frank Lampard was full of praise for Wrexham’s rapid rise up the football pyramid, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-254471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}