Haji Wright had to wait until the second half to have his chance against visiting Blackburn Rovers, but the American forward delivered in a big way for Mark Robins’ squad.
Wright came off the bench and scored the winning goal for Coventry City in a 1-0 home triumph on Wednesday night. The U.S. men’s national team striker needed just 13 minutes to make an impact, helping Coventry City to its second-straight win this fall.
Wright entered the match in the 72nd minute with the score level at 0-0. After Yasin Ayari struck the crossbar from long-range, Wright pounced on the rebound by heading home into the back of the net.
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It was Wright’s second goal of the season for the Sky Blues, who moved up to 13th place in the English Football League Championship standings. He also won three duels and drew one foul in his 18-minute shift off the bench.
“Full praise for Haji of course, we are doing it on a daily basis in training so fair play to him he got amongst it and got the goal. When he came on he was brilliant,” Coventry goalkeeper Ben Wilson said about Wright postmatch in a club interview.
Coventry City will host Norwich City on Saturday in its final match before the October international break.
Haji is not a terrible player, what he is is a late bloomer with some upside because of his attributes, but the question becomes will he reach his full potential and can the Championship bring it out of him? There is definitely something there, and he’s stepped up to bigger leagues/competition the last several seasons and has scored goals in the process
I don’t care how many goals he has, he is still terrible. I’m so glad Balogun has pushed him out of the picture.
Owen,
He may be terrible but if he keeps scoring goals that’s how he will stay employed.
“I don’t care how many goals he has,”
Many managers find that very hard to ignore and they do care.
Wright isn’t terrible, by the way. What he is, is limited. Flo is three times the soccer player Haji is but as DMB always said:
“It’s not how, it’s how many.”
I don’t think that is Haji’s first goal, pretty sure it’s his 3rd of the season(or did I dream he’s scored 2 previous goals)
This is his second goal in the Championship.
He has 2 goals and 2 assists across all competitions this season.
oh ok…..the article made it seem like this was his first goal for the club, which I didn’t think was the case. They make a lot of editing errors on this site often…..c’mon Ives, get your people on point lol!