A draw at Blackburn on Friday ended Coventry’s 25-year wait for Premier League football but the players showed they were keen to secure the Championship title to go with promotion.
The Sky Blues last finished top of the second tier in 1967 and this is the first time they have finished top of a completed table since then.
They went up as champions on points-per-game in the Covid-19 curtailed League One season in 2019-20.
Coventry dominated the first half against a Portsmouth side who had won their previous three, including victories over promotion-chasing Middlesbrough and Ipswich, to climb out of the bottom three and but only had Wright’s 19th goal of the season to show for their efforts at the break.
They did not have to wait long after the restart to take total control though as Schmid’s error was punished by Mason-Clark and Poole’s own goal three minutes later ended the match as a contest.
Lampard will have been unhappy with the soft nature of the goal his side conceded though, Rudoni punished for a lax pass in his own half that went straight to Segecic who finished well.
Mason-Clark scored the goal of the night after exchanging passes with Torp and finishing at the near post and then Rudoni’s ball in from the left ran through to former Villa man Kesler-Hayden at the back post to complete an emphatic win right at the end.
With the title now secured Coventry can enjoy a pressure-free home game against Wrexham on Sunday while Portsmouth travel to Stoke on Saturday with their objective of survival also met.
