VIDEO: USMNT ace Haji Wright hilariously plays ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ to decide penalty taker before coolly dispatching spot-kick in Coventry win

The 25-year-old frontman joined the Sky Blues for a club-record transfer fee in the summer of 2023. He is enjoying a productive debut campaign in English football, with a brace against the Lions taking him through double figures for goals scored this season.

Wright netted twice in the space of three second-half minutes against Millwall to seal Coventry a 2-1 win, with Mark Robins’ side responding positively to falling behind early on. His first of the game came from the spot, after beating O’Hare in a classic hand game.

Robins was able to see the funny side of the surprising interaction between Wright and O’Hare, with Coventry’s boss telling Sky Sports afterwards: “I think there was a bit of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ between him and Callum – I’m going to kill them! I hadn’t named a penalty taker but Haji took them all the time in Turkey. He took them all the time and was really good, so I didn’t have an issue with it. Callum scored the last one. Ultimately, it’s gone in the back of the net and we don’t have to worry about that. I’ll be talking to them about it.”

Wright formed part of the USMNT squad at the 2022 World Cup, netting in their last-16 defeat to the Netherlands, and will be hoping to keep himself in contention for future call-ups heading towards the CONCACAF Nations League finals and Copa America in 2024.