Port Vale 1-1 Coventry City

Sam Kelly (centre) has scored three goals in 18 appearances for Port Vale this season

Port Vale substitute Sam Kelly struck a superb, late equaliser to earn a well-deserved point against Coventry City.

City keeper Reice Charles-Cook denied Vale striker AJ Leitch-Smith four times as Vale dominated in the first half.

Jacob Murphy put the Sky Blues ahead against the run of play when he rounded Jak Alnwick and passed the ball in.

Charles-Cook saved brilliantly from Carl Dickinson's free-kick after the break, but was unable to stop Kelly's 20-yard, 84th-minute left-foot stunner.

Summer signing Kelly's goal, the second he has scored as a Vale substitute this season, came just four minutes after coming off the bench to replace Byron Moore.

City are now without a win in five games, while Vale, who lost defender Ryan Inniss with a first-half hamstring injury, are unbeaten in 11 home league matches - their best run since John Rudge's side 22 years ago.

Port Vale manager Rob Page told BBC Radio Stoke:

"I'm extremely proud of the players to have done that because of the managers that have been here before. John Rudge is an absolute hero at this club and rightly so.

"They've given that level of performance week in, week out. To have only lost one going into the second week of February is a great achievement.

"This run has been about levels of performance. When you give that level of performance from 1 to 11 then you will win more than you lose. I think teams will respect us."

Sky Blues boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:

"It was going to take something pretty special to beat Reice. It's important to collect points from games like this but we've got 16 games to go and we need to start winning.

"We changed tactics. We've been working on ways to win. We scored a lot earlier in the season through breaking away and using our speed to get behind. And we did that ok at times.

"We probably should have scored a few more as we've had a few great chances and one cleared off the line at the end."