Nottingham Forest twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw with Coventry at the Ricoh Arena.
Forest show fighting spirit to gain point
Nottingham Forest twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw with Coventry at the Ricoh Arena.
The home side got off to a flying start when Elliott Ward gave them the lead after just two minutes, but Rob Earnshaw equalised on 27 minutes.
Clinton Morrison restored Coventry's lead moments before the break only for Joe Garner to secure Forest a valuable point with a leveller just past the hour mark.
Chris Coleman's side raced out of the blocks and scored with the first chance of the game in the second minute after clever play down the right flank by the energetic Michael Mifsud.
The Malta international striker cut the ball back to Guillaume Beuzelin whose cross picked out the unmarked Ward at the back post and he tapped the ball into the bottom-left corner of the net from close range.
Forest almost got on level terms seven minutes later when Earnshaw was sent clear with only Keiren Westwood to beat but could only direct his shot straight at the Coventry goalkeeper.
Westwood was called into action again in the 17th minute as Forest pressed when he was forced to tip an awkward cross-shot from on-loan Liverpool winger Paul Anderson.
Deserved
Colin Calderwood's side continued to put the home side under pressure and grabbed a deserved equaliser 10 minutes later with a header from Earnshaw.
Chris Cohen found space on the right flank before he whipped a cross into the penalty area and Earnshaw dived to head the ball past Westwood.
It was visiting goalkeeper Lee Camp, though, who was picking the ball out of the net just before the half-hour mark when the home side regained their lead through Morrison.
Beuzelin's outswinging corner from the right was not dealt with by the Forest defence and Morrison smashed the ball past Camp from inside the six-yard box.
Both teams curbed their attacking instincts immediately after the half-time break although Garner and Lewis McGugan both shot wide with speculative long-range attempts for Forest.
Persistence
Garner's persistence paid off in the 59th minute as Forest levelled for a second time in the game after Coventry's Aron Gunnarsson needlessly fouled James Perch on the edge of the penalty area.
McGugan took the resulting free-kick and his delivery from the left was glanced on by the head of Garner and past Westwood into the bottom-right corner of the net.
The visitors were comfortably on top for the remainder of the game and Garner should have done better in the 86th minute when he tamely headed wide from a Cohen corner.
But it was Coventry who had the best chance to secure a winner late in injury time when Mifsud lashed a shot at goal from inside the penalty area only for Camp to superbly tip the ball round the post.
