Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that his side have to be right every week if they are keep up their push for promotion.
The City boss told the Coventry Telegraph's Alan Poole: “I think that we are a decent team and we are where we are on merit,” he said –“there haven’t been too many times when I’ve felt ‘we were lucky today.’
“But we’re not miles better than everybody else; it’s not like Bristol City last year when they just had too much for a lot of teams.
“This is a tight league and it’s getting tighter – you’ve only got to look at Peterborough coming up and we know that Wigan are going to be strong.
“The results show what a competitive league this is and if we’re going to stay where we are we have to be right every week.
“We’ve found a level of consistency but if we’re not at 100 per cent we’ll drop points, whether that’s through a couple of individual errors, like against Doncaster, or because we don’t make the most of our scoring opportunities, like against Southend and Blackpool.
“In my mind we should have won all of those games,so that’s an extra six points we could have now which would have made a big difference.
“It’s a long time since this club has been at the top of the league and that’s ten home games unbeaten this season so we have to take the positives from that.
“In the past, I think, teams have come to the Ricoh and enjoyed the big stadium, enjoyed the fact that they’ve got a tight knot of fans making a lot of noise in one corner and thought ‘right, let’s go and beat them,’
“This year we’ve managed to beat the teams who have tried to be positive but it can be tough when you’re playing a team that decides to sit in and make life difficult for us. And as the season unfolds the supporters are going to have to get used to more of that.
“Every team in this league gives you problems – look at Barnsley. Sometimes everything will click and you can blow a team away in the first half like we did against Millwall and Gillingham but generally they’re very tight games – and although I like to think we can come out on top in a lot of tight games, occasionally we won’t.
“I feel we are controlling most of our matches and I was really pleased at Bradford where, against a strong physical team, we controlled the game by keeping the ball.
“It’s easier to do that away from home because you don’t have the ‘attack, attack, attack’ expectations of a home crowd but at home it can be frustrating for them if you’re having to be patient."
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