Gaz is left flagging by tricky late shout
GARETH AINSWORTH blasted the officials after Wycombe were denied a last-gasp leveller by a late linesman’s flag.
It was a cruel end for returning Chairboys fans watching their first Championship game at Adams Park, who had their wild celebrations of Scott Kashket’s strike cut short.
Liam Kelly, who had gone 85 games without a goal, scored twice in 11 minutes to put Coventry in control.
But the game swung when City conceded a penalty which Joe Jacobson converted in the 61st minute.
It set up a rip-roaring finish that left Wycombe boss Ainsworth fuming.
He said: “We scored at the end and it was given offside when for all the world it looks on.
“How the linesman has given it, and taken so much time, I don’t know. I thought the officials would be better at this level.
“These decisions cost points and cost clubs fortunes.”
Kelly’s opener in the 34th minute was a sweetly struck shot which flew into the bottom corner. He then smashed in Leo Ostigard’s knock-down but pulled his groin and limped off at half-time.
Jacobsen slotted in from the spot and Kashket thought he’d levelled after keeper Ben Wilson spilled a shot – only for the linesman to raise his flag.
Coventry boss Mark Robins said: “It is a really big three points for us.”
Allsop 6; Grimmer 6, McCarthy 6, Knight 6, Jacobson 6; Gape 6, Pattison 6 (Kashket (72nd) 6), Bloomfield
6 (Wheeler (58th) 7); Horgan 5 (McCleary
(58th) 6), Samuel 6 (Akinfemwa (58th) 7), Onyedinma 7
Wilson 6; Ostigard 7, McFadzean 7, Hyam 7; Dabo 6, Sheaf 6, Kelly 8 (Bakayoko (46th) 6), McCallum
6; Shipley 5 (Hamer (31st) 6), O’Hare 7; Walker 6 (Biamou 89th)
Liam Kelly
A Davies