The current gap between Wednesday and Coventry was there for all to see at Hillsborough today.

In-form Coventry ran in five goals without reply, taking them to the top of the Championship into the bargain, while our limited squad not surprisingly looked tired and in need of the international break after the heroic displays of recent weeks.

The visitors were ahead after just two minutes, Brandon Thomas-Asante turning the ball home from close-in after a corner, with Max Lowe possibly getting the final touch.

The game was held up for five minutes on the ten-minute mark when a small number of Wednesday fans ran onto the pitch in protest against owner Dejphon Chansiri.

Liam Palmer fired over the bar on 31 minutes but Coventry underlined their superiority with two further goals before the break.

Thomas-Asante took advantage of a defensive error to score his second and then just on half-time Haji Wright made it 3-0 from a clearly offside position.

Keeper Ethan Horvath produced some fine saves during the 90 minutes but couldn’t prevent Coventry from adding two further goals from Ellis Simms and Tatsuhiro Sakamoto on 68 and 75 minutes respectively.

The nearest we came to pulling a goal back came in added time when George Brown headed over from Barry Bannan’s cross and the emphatic defeat leaves us still in 23rd place on six points.

Horvath, Valery, Palmer, Iorfa (Brown 65), Weaver, M Lowe, Amass, Bannan, Ingelsson (Thornton 89), J Lowe (Ugbo 89), Cadamarteri (McNeill 65). Unused subs: Stretch, Otegbayo, Alao, Emery, Fusire. Att: 22,224.