{"id":5270,"date":"2026-10-31T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/awoniyi-ends-drought-to-power-coventry-win\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:46:30","slug":"awoniyi-ends-drought-to-power-coventry-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/awoniyi-ends-drought-to-power-coventry-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoniyi ends drought to power Coventry win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50.580498866213\">\n<p><strong>Super<\/strong> Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi ended his Premier League goal drought on Saturday as Coventry City beat Sunderland 3-1 at the Coventry Building Society Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was his first of the 2026\/27 Premier League campaign, after a frustrating start to the season where he has scored one other goal in the EFL Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He struck in the 37th minute to double the lead of Frank Lampard\u2019s side, and he was substituted after a 72-minute shift in which he constantly troubled the visitors\u2019 defence.<\/p>\n<p>The match was billed as a relegation six-pointer between the Sky Blues and basement side Sunderland, managed by R\u00e9gis Le Bris.<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuhiro Sakamoto put Coventry ahead in the 17th minute before Awoniyi\u2019s strike, while Jack Rudoni made it 3-0 in the 52nd minute to put the game beyond Sunderland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enzo Le F\u00e9e pulled one back from the penalty spot in the 67th minute following a VAR review, but the visitors never looked capable of a comeback. Their afternoon got worse in the 99th minute when defender Omar Alderete received a second yellow card and was sent off, leaving them with 10 men.<\/p>\n<p>The result gives Coventry three vital points in their fight for survival.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"10.169811320755\">\n                                                                <b><a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/author\/pakinbo\">Peter Akinbo<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Peter, who has been covering sports for PUNCH for close to two years, focuses on combat sports reporting, special features and human angle stories<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#e5918d8080818c918a97a595908b868d8b82cb868a88\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"cebaa6ababaaa7baa1bc8ebebba0ada6a0a9e0ada1a3\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi ended his Premier League goal drought on Saturday as Coventry City beat Sunderland 3-1 at the Coventry Building Society Arena. The goal was his first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}