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Simon Grayson: Frank Lampard’s Coventry City have the class to overcome wobble

If you spoke to Frank Lampard in private, I don’t think he’d be too worried about Coventry City’s dip in form.
Coventry City head coach Frank Lampard applauds the fans after his side’s 3-1 victory over Sheffield United

If you spoke to Frank Lampard in private, I don’t think he’d be too worried about Coventry City’s dip in form.

The Championship leaders have won just twice in their last eight matches and seen a 12-point gap to third cut to just eight.
Third-placed Ipswich Town also have a game in hand.
Frank will be looking at that, thinking ‘We’ve had a few injuries, we’ve had a lot of games over Christmas and we were always going to dip at some point’.
Confidence
At the same time, as a manager, you don’t want a three-game winless run to become five, six or seven because that can have an adverse effect o...

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