LONDON, CMC – Veteran Bermuda worldwide Nahki Wells broke a four-month scoring drought as Bristol Metropolis squandered a golden alternative for complete factors in a 2-2 draw with Coventry Metropolis.
The 33-year-old Wells pounced on a unfastened ball with time ticking away within the 83rd minute to provide the guests a valuable 2-1 lead at Coventry Area on Tuesday.
Nonetheless, the lead lasted solely three minutes as substitute Ellis Simms grabbed the equalizer, leaving Bristol Metropolis winless since Boxing Day.
“It does really feel like two factors dropped, after all, after scoring at such a great time, conceding not too brief after,” mentioned Wells, who has scored solely 4 instances this season.
“So sure, [there is] a variety of disappointment within the altering room. It appears it’s turning into a recurring factor within the league recently, and we’ve to seek out methods to begin successful video games.”
Japan worldwide Tatsuhiro Sakamoto put Coventry forward with a scientific end after the Bristol Metropolis protection did not successfully clear Jake Bidwell’s cross.
Rob Dickie drew the guests stage on the stroke of half-time, heading in Taylor Gardner-Hickman’s cross earlier than Wells put them in entrance when the ball fell to him on the sting of the field.
However Simms rapidly quelled any untimely pleasure on Bristol Metropolis’s half when he rammed residence a rebound after the ’ keeper had parried Liam Kitching’s preliminary shot.
Metropolis lies mid-table on 38 factors, six factors adrift of sixth-placed Coventry.
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