Haji Wright is riding high heading into U.S. men’s national team duty.
Wright scored his ninth goal of the season in all competitions as Coventry City rolled past Sheffield Wednesday 5-0 in EFL Championship play on Saturday. The American forward helped Frank Lampard’s squad earn their fifth league victory of the season, moving to first place in the league table.
A first-half brace from Brandon Thomas-Asante propelled the Sky Blues into a 2-0 lead nearing the interval before Wright added his name to the scoresheet. He finished off Bobby Thomas’ headed pass into the back of the net for his eighth league goal of the campaign.
It was also Wright’s 14th goal of 2025 for his club and his 40th all-time for the Sky Blues, moving him three tallies behind Viktor Gyokeres for 10th spot on the club’s scoring list.
Ellis Simms and Tatsuhiro Sakamoto added insurance goals after halftime, padding Coventry City’s road victory.
Wright, who played 78 minutes in the match, led all players with two fouls drawn. He also won eight duels and made two defensive tackles.
American goalkeeper Ethan Horvath played the full 90 minutes in net for Sheffield Wednesday. The veteran shot-stopper endured a tough day as the Owls remained in the relegation zone.
The 27-year-old Wright will now enter the October USMNT window, fighting alongside Folarin Balogun and Patrick Agyemang for minutes against Australia and Ecuador.
Coventry City will resume league play on Oct. 18 at home against Blackburn Rovers.
Man, that dude was so offside it’s ridiculous
Am I missing something or was Haji clearly offside?
I dont think they have VAR in the Championship. But yes he looks offside.
They do not. I’m sure the camera angle makes it worse, but a pretty bad missed called.
JR,
In the good old pre-VAR days they called what Haji did a goal.
I doubt it is possible but I want them to go back and run VAR over Mo Edu, Slovenia, 2010 World Cup. I still think he was robbed
There are some famous goal scorers who might lose a lot of numbers off of their career goal totals if you could go back and VAR all their goals.
Vac: there’s about 5 fouls on that play all by Slovenia. One guy has Boca in a headlock and Carlos tries to slip out of it and the defender tumbles over him which I think is what he sees. At the time I thought the ref felt it was a soft foul signaled by his linesman and so he just had already determined he was going to call a foul on the free kick. He’s already signaling the foul before the ball is going in.
I don’t suppose that Haji’s ref has any association with CONCACAF?
Sorry, I know it is not offsides but I take all these referee miscues with some level of hilariuos-ness(?), probably since 2013 when Joel Campbell got Matt Besler a yellow card by running into Matt’s legs from behind. The yellow got Matt knocked out of the next game which happened to be Mexico.
If we are going to reminisce about bad calls, one I mentioned recently was a foul against Gooch Onyewu in the WC where he jumped straight up for a high ball, the Ghana player ran into him, a penalty was awarded to
Ghana and that won the game.
Then there was our match in, I believe, 2006 vs. Italy. It was down to 9 players for us vs. 10 for them and Demarcus Beasley made a great run down the sideline and scored what would have been a go ahead goal, but he was called offsides or whatever when the replay showed he wasn’t. Finally, a WC qualifier in Costa Rica and CONCACAF reffing at its worst. A player was running along the end line toward our goal and Greg Berhalter was the defender. He had his arms clearly behind his back and replay showed clearly that he took a kick full in his chest and got called for a handball, penalty kick. which decided the game.
Noahkai Banks with a start and a goal for Augsburg. Have a feeling Banks will be in the next camp again.
And Agyemang scores his first in The Championship.
Nice.