Coventry set up Middlesbrough playoff rematch after draw at Riverside

08-May-2023 16:08:18 | The Guardian

Dress rehearsals come in many forms but they are rarely as downright strange as the dry run staged here.

Given that Mark Robins’s Coventry required a point to guarantee a playoff place it was not quite a phoney war but no one expects things to be quite as politely low tempo when they meet Middlesbrough again in an impending two-legged Championship playoff semi-final.