Coventry strike late to snatch draw at Plymouth

Liam Kitching helped Coventry City rescue a degree at Plymouth Argyle in the dying seconds of the recreation as they maintained their pursuit of a Championship play-off location.

The centre-lend a hand grew to turn into in Victor Torp’s wicked in the ultimate minute of six added on at the tip to lift City lend a hand from a procedure down for the 2nd time in the recreation.

Argyle took the lead after half of-time through Morgan Whittaker’s sweeping left-foot attain, earlier than Ellis Simms forced home an equaliser for City.

Accurate three minutes after Coventry had levelled, substitute Mickel Miller sent a fizzing low ball in from the left and a deflection from Bobby Thomas beat goalkeeper Brad Collins.

However Kitching snatched a degree for the Sky Blues at the death to cross them up to sixth state on procedure inequity.

Plymouth are in 15th location and eight facets sure of the bottom three.

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Whittaker netted in the 54th minute for the hosts with a significant-time attain after Alfie Devine and Adam Randell had linked up successfully down the left.

The lead did no longer closing long as Simms forced a sturdy assign from Plymouth goalkeeper Conor Hazard that he may maybe well no longer flip to safety and Simms chested in the rebound.

Miller’s wicked then stumbled on a ability past Brad Collins and Argyle gave the impact plight for a third get in four games, resplendent for Kitching’s late procedure to train them.

However they were fortunate to be level at the rupture as Matty Godden by some ability headed broad from inner the six-yard box when totally unmarked as Jake Bidwell’s wicked from the left bounced up kindly for him.

Godden additionally went stop resplendent after the rupture when he beat the offside entice but may maybe well no longer beat Hazard with a low shot.

Stout-lend a hand Milan van Ewijk additionally forced Hazard into a inspiring assign with a shot from birth air the distance that mandatory a sturdy arm to flip across the put up.

Plymouth head coach Ian Foster told BBC Radio Devon:

“We’re clearly upset in the kind of the procedure at the tip but while you rob the emotion out of it, we’re elated with the final performance.

“We doubtlessly deserved to get the recreation and or no longer it is been taken away with some melancholy recreation administration at the death.

“However we now enjoy obtained to be elated with how fearless we were and what we now enjoy performed to a top, top workforce.”

Coventry City manager Trace Robins told BBC CWR:

“We were up to the tag of the main half of and saved them very restful but we did no longer compete as we need to in the 2nd half of and grew to turn into sloppy.

“We gave them a leg up and we now enjoy got to be better and reach lend a hand from this performance.

“It is far a licensed point in the tip to derive one thing resplendent at the death and a degree may maybe well screech fundamental in the tip.”