Championship takeaways: Sam Parkin gives his views on Saturday’s action

Coventry City, who reached the play-offs last season, laid down a marker with a 7-1 thrashing of QPR which manager Frank Lampard described as a “a performance of quality, mentality and attitude”.

Parkin: “Coventry are full of goals – that’s 12 in two games. One of my concerns with them last year was there was an over-reliance on Jack Rudoni and he played well and contributed, but to be getting other goals from the likes of Victor Torp and [Brandon] Thomas-Asante, Haji Wright, gives them a really good opportunity to emulate what they did last season.

“My one criticism towards the tail-end of last year was they were a little bit one-dimensional, a lot of balls into the box, but they seem to be scoring different types of goals.

“Normally teams suffer a hangover when you get beaten in the play-offs, but nobody anticipated them getting there last year and such has been the improvement under Frank Lampard they can put that to one side and focus on the positives of the second half of last season and really attack this year.

“A bit of a statement win, a statement week with the amount of goals they’re getting. It’s just important they keep hold of Bobby Thomas and Rudoni because there’s a lot of speculation about those two.”