Wilder target seals win as Gyokeres sinks Boro

THE man Boro boss Chris Wilder tried to buy for £20million kept Boro stuck in the Championship’s bottom three.

Yorkshire-born boss Wilder admits he tried to land Swedish international Viktor Gyokeres in the summer.

“You could see why,” said Wilder. “He was the best player on pitch today.”

He scored Coventry’s 17th-minute winner and generally terrorised struggling Boro. Coventry’s price tag caused the bid to collapse.

“In the summer we sold a couple of players and we were ambitious in terms of going and getting a centreforward and we made an enquiry about Gyokeres,” said Wilder. “We were in our rights to do that. It was chief exec to chief exec, nothing behind closed doors about it.

“I didn’t get involved in the price aspect.

“Can I talk about other teams’ players? Why not. I thought Gyokeres was excellent today.”

He struck at the end of a superb Fankaty Dabo pass and ran away from the visitors’ defence to calmly beat Zack Steffen. It gave

City their first win of a difficult season.

“It’s lift off,” said Sky Blues boss Mark Robins.

“No one can know how difficult it has been. It’s our first Saturday game of the season. Incredible.”

They stay bottom but have three games in hand over other teams down there.

COVENTRY: Wilson 7; Doyle 7, Mcfadzean 7, Panzo 7; Dabo 7, Sheaf 6, Allen 6, Bidwell 6; Palmer 8 (Eccles (77) 5); Godden 6 (Waghorn (82) 5), Gyokeres 8

MIDDLESBROUGH: Steffen 7; Dijksteel 6 (Mcnair (76) 5), Fry 6, Clarke 6 (Giles (55) 6); Smith 6 (Jones (55) 5), Crooks 7, Howson 7, Mowatt 6 (Mcgree (73) 6), Bola 6; Muniz 6, Watmore 6 (Akpom

(45) 5)

STAR MAN: Viktor Gyokeres – Dangerous enough to get into Sweden’s World Cup squad.

REF: Stephen Martin 6