By Kev Monks

Coventry City reserves collected their first win of the Pontin's League season with a 3-1 win against a strong Wolves side at Molineux.

First team stars Kevin Kyle, David McNamee and Stuart Giddings all picked up valuable playing time as they returned from injury.

Against a Wolves side managed by former Spurs keeper Bobby Mimms and one that included star striker Freddy Eastwood and former Sky Blue Jay Bothroyd, City needed only 141 seconds with Donovan Simmonds rising from five yards to head home a Dave Burtoft cross.

Playing a very loose 4-3-3 formation, a Kyle header forced Stack into a save.

But in the tenth minute, Wolves drew level when Bothroyd was allowed far too much space in the penalty area and turned to dive a low shot into the bottom corner from seven yards.

Four minutes later City were back in front though, Burtoft, in his last ever appearance for the Sky Blues, was again the provider, delivering a cross from the right for Wayne Andrews to head home from close range.

The visitors had the majority of the play and defended stoutly when required, limiting Wolves to a thirty yard Bothroyd free kick which Danny Ireland dived to his left to push out for a corner.

In the 39th minute, Simmonds should have put City further ahead but sent a Hildreth cross past the far post.

Giddings was replaced at the break by Academy youngster Liam Robinson, who slotted into the defence as City continued to push forward.

Defender Jermaine Grandison should have scored when he was totally unmarked after a 53rd minute Kyle cross beat the home defence. He had time with a free header but sent it wide.

David McNamee had a solid game before he was replaced in the 62nd minute by another promosing Academy player, Bradley Jones.

Good positioning from Ireland saw the Australian able to push over a Bothroyd header in the 75th minute just seconds after the striker had nodded on to the bar from a Denes Rosa cross.

With twelve minutes to go, Andrews broke. He was met by the advancing Stack and recovered to take the loose ball off the 'keeper and stroke it into the empty net for his fourth goal in as many games for the second-string.

Andrews had been replaced by the time Wolves star Stephen Gleeson was stretchered off with a neck injury following a collision with Ireland which caused a ten minute delay.

But there was still time for Hungarian international Rosa, the home side's best player on the night, to hit a post deep in stoppage time but it was the Sky Blues who deservedly picked up their first points of the campaign.

Wolves: Stack, Little, Mulgrew, Potter, Edwards (Riley 40), L Collins, E Bennett, Gleeson (Salmon, 95), Eastwood (Hughes, 83), Bothroyd, Rosa. Subs (Not Used): Lumley, Hughes, Ijaha

Goals: Bothroyd (10)
Booked: Edwards

Coventry City: Ireland, McNamee (Jones 62), Francis, Grandison, Giddings (Robinson, 43), Burtoft, Hildreth, Davis, Andrews (Ashraf, 80), Simmonds, Kyle. Subs (Not Used): D Marshall, Walker

Goals: Simmonds (2), Andrews (14, 78)
Booked: Grandison, Andrews

Attendance: 385