Mark Robins reveals area that Coventry City must address this summer | OneFootball

Coventry City manager Mark Robins has identified a key area of the team that needs to be improved over the summer following his side's 2-1 home loss to Ipswich Town.

The Sky Blues failed to do Leeds United a massive favour last night. Had they prevented the Tractor Boys from picking up three points, there would have been a bit more pressure on Kieran McKenna and his team to get three points on the final day to secure their place in the automatic promotion spots.

Unfortunately for Leeds, Coventry weren't able to stave off Ipswich, and they now only need a point against Huddersfield Town on the final day of the season to go up.

City's promotion hopes were dashed at the weekend with a 0-0 draw against Blackburn Rovers.

Tuesday night's game meant nothing in terms of the league for them, but there were a few things to learn from the match.

It was the side's fifth loss in their last seven league fixtures, and there has been a clear indicator of why their form fell away that Robins believes needs to be fixed before next season.

Mark Robins' Coventry weakness claim

The manager of the Sky Blues sees their defensive incapabilities as being the reason why they are struggling so much. Over the previous seven Championship games, City have shipped 13 goals.

Conceding close to two goals a game certainly isn't going to get you anywhere in this league, especially not near the top six, and Robins echoes those feelings.

After the loss to McKenna's men, the 54-year-old said, via Coventry Live: "From our perspective, we gave away a really soft goal whilst we were trying to build into the game, and that’s really been the story of our season.

"We concede too many goals, quite a few goals. We’re on the back foot and give ourselves a mountain to climb.

"We have to address that because you can’t win things if you’re conceding too many goals.

"The flip side of it, we attacked pretty well. We had a lot of the ball, we had 13 shots and they had 14, although they had 12 inside our box and that’s the thing, we cannot give the opposition goals rather than making them work for it.

"That’s what has happened, and that’s what has happened lately. And then the volume of goals that you have to get back and score means the pressure becomes more intense."

Man Utd FA Cup semi-final has killed off Coventry's season

The Sky Blues did well to recover to the point that they did after a poor start to the season when they seemingly didn't know where the opposition's goal was.

Coventry went on a magical cup run which peaked with the trip to Wembley for the FA Cup semi-final, against Manchester United.

The day after they beat Wolves in the quarter-final, thanks to a last minute goal from Haji Wright, they knew that they were going to face Erik ten Hag's side at the home of English football.

Between that point and now, they have won two games of football. Their season felt like it was built around this moment, and a lot of their subconscious thoughts will have been on that tie and not the ones before it.

And now, with the way things panned out, it feels like all the energy from the players and fans is gone.

To go from a 3-0 comeback to the elation of a last minute winner, to get to the FA Cup final, to it being chalked off, and then losing on penalties, is an adrenaline dump that would kill most teams.

It seems like that has played a huge part in derailing their play-off push, as well as their defensive stability.

Coventry have only conceded 57 goals all season, which is remarkably less than the two goals per game pace that they are at right now.

That day at Wembley was the summit of the 23/24 campaign for this team, and everything after it has been downhill.