Norwich City 1 Coventry City 1

Last updated : 24 February 2007 By Footymad Previewer
Coventry City carried on where they had left off against Southampton in midweek and for 80 minutes it looked as if Iain Dowie would make it two wins out of two since taking charge until Norwich grabbed a late equaliser.

Dowie had to settle for a point when young Canaries star Chris Martin opened his League account with an equaliser to cancel out Jay Tabb's first-half strike.

Norwich kicked off attacking the Barclay End goal. In the eighth minute former Canary, Andy Marshall, did well to save Darren Huckerby's lob with the Coventry defenders standing still expecting an offside flag.

Tabb put in a low cross from the left but Gary Doherty did enough to prevent Dele Adebola from applying the vital touch.

After 21 minutes Paul Gallacher saved Kevin Kyle's glancing header from another Tabb cross. Adebola then got his head to Andrew Whing's left-wing corner but the ball went a foot wide of the far post.

Gallacher saved Whing's free-kick but the inevitable goal for Coventry came after 42 minutes.

A clever pass from Adebola on the edge of the Norwich penalty area released Tabb who shook off Andy Hughes and planted a right-foot shot past Gallacher from seven yards out.

Chris Brown should have done better with a right-wing cross from Andy Hughes, but his volley went high into the Barclay Stand.

Lee Croft replaced the injured Brown for the start of the second half.

Three minutes after the restart Mark Fotheringham fired inches wide of the far post when he failed to get a firm touch on Martin's low left-wing cross and Whing was booked for a foul on Huckerby a minute later.

On the hour a good break out of defence by Norwich ended with Huckerby curling his shot inches wide.

Four minutes later Martin cut in from the right and brought a good save from Marshall with a low left-foot shot.

With 10 minutes left, Huckerby was booked by referee Andy D'Urso for an alleged dive with the home fans calling in no uncertain terms for a penalty.

A minute later Huckerby crossed low from the left and Martin's right-foot half-volley from six yards out flew into the top right-hand corner of Marshall's goal.

Marshall then beat away a deflected shot from Huckerby and despite a few more near misses the visitors ensured the game ended all-square.