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Coventry manager Frank Lampard felt his players took the game by the throat after the break at Millwall as he enjoyed his first victory in charge.
Ephron Mason-Clark scored the only goal of the game to reward a better second-half performance from the visitors, who ended a five-match winless run in the Championship.
Lampard has now taken four points from his first two games in charge of Coventry.
He said: “In this league you have to have that (a fully committed defence) and it was something that was a bit lacking last week.”
“But they did it in the second half and we created enough chances to possibly win 2-0 and finish the game.”
Millwall thought they had gone ahead after 12 minutes when Joe Bryan’s wind-assisted corner went straight in, but a foul by Macaulay Langstaff on Coventry goalkeeper Brad Collins ruled out the goal.
Frank Lampard is all smiles after claiming his first win as Coventry manager on Saturday.
Ephron Mason-Clark watches his strike fly towards the only goal in victory against Millwall
Millwall manager Neil Harris admitted his team was not good enough and has work to do
Coventry rallied after the break and went close when Victor Torp’s cross fell for Mason-Clark, who was parried away by Lukas Jensen from close range.
But Mason-Clark made no mistake in the 63rd minute when he deflected a volley from Jack Rudoni’s cross off the underside of the bar to put the visitors in front.
Millwall boss Neil Harris said: “We were just lacking quality, weren’t we?” It just shows that we have a lot of learning ahead of us.”