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Wrexham beat Coventry 3-2 as Moore nets hat-trick

Published 31 October 2025

Wrexham came from behind to beat Championship leaders Coventry City 3-2 at the Racecourse Ground on Friday, with striker Kieffer Moore scoring a second-half hattrick to end Coventry's unbeaten start to the season. The victory lifted Wrexham into the top half of the table and denied Coventry a club-record seventh consecutive league win.

Coventry took the lead in the 22nd minute when Tatsuhiro Sakamoto whipped in a deep cross that Ephron Mason-Clark met with a near-post finish. The visitors looked in control for much of the first half, but Wrexham turned the game on its head after the break. Josh Windass supplied the service for all three of Moore's goals, the Wales international converting a close-range finish in the 60th minute, heading home a far-post cross nine minutes later, and completing his hattrick with a composed finish in the 83rd minute. Sakamoto struck from distance in the 88th minute to make the final moments tense, but Wrexham held on. Officials recorded an attendance of 10,617 and the match was refereed by Elliot Bell.

The result marked Coventry's first league defeat of the campaign. Before the game they were the only unbeaten side in the division and sat atop the...

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