Coventry City’s rebuild, according to Mark Robins, is “going to take time” following the Sky Blues’ third consecutive league loss to West Bromwich Albion.
After a rough start to the season, City lost their first home match of the year to the Baggies at the Coventry Building Society Arena due to goals from Grady Diangana and Brandon Thomas-Asante in each half. The Sky Blues’ loss drops them to 20th place in the Championship standings, but manager Robins is adamant that confidence will return after a summer roster overhaul.
Robins said: “It’s never nice to lose games and you’re not in the game to lose games.
“The difficulty is always when you’ve had success that we’ve had over the last few years everybody expects it and expects it now and it is impossible to do.
“I said that’s the reason that I stayed, that’s the reason why we signed the contract.
“That’s the reason we rebuilt, because we know what we’re doing, it’s going to take time.
“We’ve got good players here and good players that are technically very, very good.
“We’ve just got a little bit of a lack of confidence in certain areas but that will come.”
On the seventeenth minute, Diangana controlled the loose ball and finished from close range to give West Brom the lead after Ben Wilson failed to stop Nathaniel Chalobah’s long-range attempt.
And on 69 minutes, Thomas-Asante, having been set up by Matt Phillips, finished clinically into the top right corner of the goal to give Albion the victory. The next game for Coventry is on Saturday, November 4, away at Preston North End. Kickoff is at 3 p.m. at Deepdale.
