Matt Godden: Coventry City striker signs new deal until 2024

Coventry City striker Matt Godden has signed a new deal with the Championship side until the summer of 2024.

The 30-year-old has scored 23 goals in 63 appearances for the Sky Blues since joining from Peterborough in 2019.

Former Stevenage player Godden has scored twice in six games this season, with Coventry fourth in the table.

However he has missed their past two matches after being banned by the Football Association for diving in the win against Fulham on 2 October.

Meanwhile, Coventry boss Mark Robins believes his players may be on the receiving end of unpunished fouls because of Godden's recent suspension.

They have not won either match since the victory over Fulham, and lost 2-1 at Preston North End on Wednesday.

"We had to keep trying to play when we under pressure being fouled," 51-year-old Robins told BBC CWR.

"There were a lot of niggly fouls that went unpunished or unseen.

"I don't know whether it's the Matty Godden thing, where everybody decides now that we just fall over.

"But there were nailed-on free-kicks and nailed-on fouls, especially on Callum O'Hare, who gets kicked all over the place."

Robins was also concerned that his side "seemed to run out of energy" against Preston after taking the lead through Tyler Walker on the stroke of half-time.

He added: "They maintained their energy and the desire to come and press and close down and we just ended up dwelling on the ball a bit too long.

"You've got to give them credit, but then you've got to find a different way and we didn't do that."