Stoke, Coventry play out final-day draw

Stoke and Coventry shared the spoils in an entertaining 1-1 draw to finish the season.

Leading scorer Viktor Gyokeres rifled the visitors ahead in the 14th minute with an exquisite angled finish for his 18th goal in all competitions.

But Sam Clucas levelled for the hosts two minutes before the break with a fine strike, his first league goal since August enough to earn a point for the hosts.

Stoke boss Michael O'Neill and Coventry manager Mark Robins both rang the changes for the last match of the season.

Northern Irishman O'Neill made four changes to his side, with academy prospect Tom Sparrow handed the opportunity to impress. Morgan Fox, Clucas and Nick Powell all returned to the Potters' starting line-up.

Robins, meanwhile, made five changes to his team with skipper Liam Kelly back, as well as Josh Eccles, Ian Maatsen, Jordan Shipley and Chelsea loanee Jake Clarke-Salter all in from the start.

And it was the visitors who started the brighter of the two sides and Shipley's low drive across the face of goal just needed a touch from a team-mate to give the Sky Blues the lead - it was sadly lacking.

Midfielder Eccles had a shot charged down as Robins' charges pressed for the breakthrough which, as it proved, was not far around the corner.

And it was Gyokeres who fired them into a deserved lead, the Swedish hitman making no mistake in rifling the ball under Stoke keeper Josef Bursik to stun the hosts.

And it could have easily been 2-0 just two minutes later when Gyokeres fired a shot wide of the right post.

Shipley tried his luck from long range for the visitors as the pressure mounted, before Eccles was forced off with injury on the half-hour mark and Robins had to shuffle his pack.

Gyokeres had a powerful right-foot