After a couple of high performance games there was a little less quality in the CCFC v CCFC encounter but the end result was most important.
Michael Chopra scored his first City goal and he should have had a second as well. The winning strike came in the 79th minute when he finished from Joe Ledley's cross. Three minutes later Chopra was through with just the keeper to beat but it was the Coventry custodian that came off best when he was able to get a hand to Chopra's chip.
City's victory put's the Bluebirds in 3rd place. That may change this afternoon with Crystal Palace and Leeds playing, one or other going to move above City depending on the result.
Coventry's main threat, Gary McSheffrey, failed to produce a match winning performance and the likes of Stern John and Dele Adebola failed to place too much pressure on Neil Alexander. When Coventry need them to finish they were pretty woeful with their efforts.
City managed to to test Marshall in the Sky Blues goal a few times. Some decent stops kept the scoreline low. City on balance deserved their win, Coventry came with the ambition of not losing and the game turned out to be a scrappy affair with an over fussy referee and a linesman with a mechanical arm that seemed to raise the offside flag all match.
Coventry were disrupted from the start. Fullback McNamee was injured on 6 mins and replaced by Virgo. 12 minutes later and Virgo was injured and he was taken off to be replaced by Tabb.
Coventry's best fist half chance came from a corner that was headed goalbound but Kerrea Gilbert was there to head off the line.
At the other end Michael Chopra placed a free kick over the bar and a superb McPhail shot was acrobatically saved by Marshall.
City turned up the heat in the second half and on two occasions the Coventry defence had to head over their own bar to ease the pressure. City also had two goalmouth scrambles where they seemed set to score but Coventry cleared.
Then came the goal that settled it. Even after Chopra's second chance Kevin Campbell saw an effort saved.
Coventry went looking for the leveller but the awful finishing I mentioned earlier meant they went home empty handed.
Next up for City is a trip to Leeds then home against Birmingham. It's not the easiest of starts to the season but if we are still in the top 5 or 6 after those games then we will have had an astounding start to the campaign.