Coventry 0-5 Brighton: What Lampard said

Coventry manager Frank Lampard speaking to BBC Match of the Day : "It's a difficult scoreline and it's not easy at home. The first half was pretty good, we created some chances, better chances and we had them under a lot of pressure. Then a mistake to make it 2-0 and the red card makes it very difficult. "We have to take responsibility. We did some good stuff, then the game became very, very difficult for us. We have to keep working. At [Manchester] City last week we created a few big chances and [Gianluigi] Donnarumma made some good saves. The pressure of the Premier League for these players is new. We have to continue to work and hopefully when we start scoring, and this team scored a lot of goals last season, but we have to keep working. "I can't complain with the players at the end." On the backing from the supporters at the end : "These supporters have watched this team go from 17th in the Championship up to the play-offs, nearly in the Premier League then next year win the league so well. The appreciate the work done by these players and that was a sign of respect for what they have done and we absolutely respect that." Did you know? With this defeat, Coventry City became just the fifth side in English top-flight history to lose each of their opening four matches of a campaign while also failing to score a goal, after Derby in 1899-1900, Stoke in 1906-07, Preston in 1924-25 and Crystal Palace in 2017-18. Coventry boss Frank Lampard suffered the joint-heaviest defeat of his managerial career, along with Everton 0-5 Tottenham in the Premier League in March 2022. Taiwo Awoniyi received the first red card of his Premier League career in this match, in what was his 94th appearance in the competition. It was also Coventry's first Premier League red card since Mustapha Hadji was given his marching orders against Derby in March 2001.