Former Huddersfield loanee Kasey Palmer scored in opposition to his previous facet as Coventry ran out 2-0 winners on the CBS Arena.
The ex-Chelsea academy product spent 18 months on mortgage in West Yorkshire, making 28 league appearances for the Terriers and scoring 4 occasions.
Gustavo Hamer was additionally on the scoresheet for Mark Robins’ facet, who ended a run of 5 video games with out victory within the Championship courting again to earlier than Christmas.
There was an added bonus of a clear sheet for the Sky Blues after conceding 4 objectives in every of their final two dwelling outings.
A lacklustre Huddersfield facet, sporting the worst away file within the Championship, seldom threatened the Coventry purpose and remained within the relegation zone, three factors from security.
Hamer opened the scoring within the 53rd minute, after an uninspiring first half, when he lower inside from the left after a neat one-two with Viktor Gyokeres and unleashed a rasping drive which discovered the far nook.
Coventry had picked up only one victory since getting back from the World Cup break and Swedish star Gyokeres additionally arrange the second, crossing for Palmer to nod dwelling from shut vary after persistent work on the left within the 71st minute.
The welcome victory additionally marked the primary league win for Coventry over the Terriers since 1972.
It had been a busy week within the switch window for Coventry as new mortgage signing Luke McNally made his debut in a again three made up solely of loanees, subsequent to Callum Doyle and Jonathan Panzo.
The Terriers had additionally been busy on the switch entrance and regardless of naming an unchanged line-up from the final-minute heartbreak at Hull 14 days in the past, new signings Joe Hungbo and Florian Kamberi got here off the bench to make their league debuts.
Burnley loanee McNally was in motion at each ends, throwing himself in entrance of a Jack Rudoni free-kick earlier than heading Hamer’s nook over the bar.
Hamer had earlier seen a protracted-vary effort crushed away by stand-in Terriers goalkeeper Nicholas Bilokapic.
Mark Fotheringham’s males had been unable to hassle Ben Wilson within the Coventry purpose, Jordan Rhodes heading a Duane Holmes cross into the welcoming arms of the Sky Blues stopper earlier than repeating the feat within the second half from Josh Ruffels’ cross.
Matt Godden and Josh Eccles additionally got here off the bench to make their first Coventry appearances since October and December respectively, the previous testing Bilokapic with a low effort which the Australian rebuffed together with his ft.
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