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Coventry City manager Frank Lampard<\/p>\nBirmingham City beat Frank Lampard’s Coventry City 3-2 at St Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park<\/p>\n
15:30, 04 Jan 2026Updated 15:38, 04 Jan 2026<\/p>\n
Coventry City manager Frank Lampard<\/p>\n
Frank Lampard believes Coventry City should have been awarded a penalty at the death in their defeat to Birmingham City<\/a> and insisted \u2018the game was there for us\u2019.<\/p>\n Blues became only the third Championship team to defeat the league leaders<\/a> this season thanks to goals from Marvin Ducksch<\/a> (2) and Lewis Koumas.<\/a><\/p>\n Coventry twice hit back through Josh Eccles and Ellis Simms and Lampard felt that Ephron Mason-Clark should have been awarded a penalty late on.<\/p>\n Lampard said: \u201cWe have a clear penalty at the end of the game. For some reason, we are on a run where we, as Coventry City, are not getting penalties. These ones are really clear.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there\u2019s a handball one but handball\u2019s a funny rule, pulling someone down isn\u2019t a funny rule. It\u2019s clear cut.\u201d<\/p>\n Coventry enjoyed the lion\u2019s share of possession and had more shots than Blues, which gave Lampard the impression that his team deserved to travel back down the M6 with something to show for their efforts.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI don\u2019t like to talk about opposition but I normally credit them if they beat us but here I think the game was there for us to go out and win.<\/p>\n \u201cIn terms of general play, we had a lot of the ball. It wasn’t a game where we felt a really hot atmosphere and big pressure and things like that. It didn\u2019t feel like that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was there for us to take control and we did, but without the extra urgency to hit them on the sides of the pitch like we normally do, with the speed and repetition that we normally have.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the latest Blues headlines sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n BirminghamLive has its very own Birmingham City<\/a> WhatsApp community to deliver the latest headlines straight to your phone. Just click this link<\/a> to receive daily Blues content and breaking news. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like. Click on the name at the top of your screen while in WhatsApp and click ‘Exit Group’. Read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City beat Frank Lampard’s Coventry City 3-2 at St Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park 15:30, 04 Jan 2026Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,1205,748,71307,393,7129,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-673771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-coventry-city-fc","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-frank-lampard","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115838166506458634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}