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Football League: Sheffield United keep pace at top while Luton hit seven
Championship
• Sheffield United took their chance to draw level with Cardiff, the league leaders coming into the weekend, albeit a little unconvincingly with a 1-0 win over Ipswich at Bramall Lane. Chris Basham’s powerful header on 49 minutes was the difference, though the Blades’ afternoon was marred by a nasty injury when Cameron Carter-Vickers fell heavily on top of his team-mate Kieron Freeman. The Blades manager, Chris Wilder, confirmed that Freeman had dislocated his knee and faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
• It has taken 13 games but finally Bolton have a league win. Sammy Ameobi and a Sam Hutchinson own goal put them two up against Sheffield Wednesday and although Kieran Lee poached one back to set up a nervy finish, which was full of chances and brilliant saves at both ends, Bolton held on. It is only one win in five games now for Carlos Carvalhal’s sinking Owls, a slump outdone by Leeds who fell to a third straight defeat at home to Reading, Modou Barrow’s late goal doing the damage.
• While the rest of the games were done and dusted, two kept on going and both were eventually decided by 96th-minute goals. Denis Odoi’s last-gasp equaliser for Fulham denied Preston three points at Craven Cottage in a 2-2 draw, while Norwich finally broke through Hull’s stubborn 10-man resistance – 23 shots later – through Nélson Oliveira’s opportunistic flick to claim a point.
• Millwall’s frustrating afternoon against Brentford was topped off when Lee Gregory’s equaliser was ruled out, with the referee, Lee Probert, bringing the game back for a penalty instead. Gregory stepped up himself, saw his spot-kick saved by Daniel Bentley and they lost the game 1-0. “It’s a hard one to take,” Neil Harris said afterwards. “We should have had four or five goals today. That isn’t good enough.”
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wolverhampton | 12 | 8 | 24 |
2 | Cardiff | 12 | 7 | 24 |
3 | Sheff Utd | 12 | 6 | 24 |
4 | Bristol City | 12 | 9 | 21 |
5 | Preston North End | 12 | 7 | 21 |
Results: Barnsley 2-2 Middlesbrough, Bolton 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday, Brentford 1-0 Millwall, Fulham 2-2 Preston, Leeds 0-1 Reading, Norwich 1-1 Hull, Sheffield United 1-0 Ipswich, Sunderland 1-1 QPR.
League One
• For so long it looked like being 13th game unlucky for Shrewsbury after Graham Carey’s stunner had put Plymouth on course to end the Shrews’ unbeaten start to the season at 12 games. But Shaun Whalley fired a late reply to salvage a point and Shrewsbury remain the only Football League side with a 0 in the L column.
• Even so, Wigan climbed above Shrewsbury to the summit with a 3-0 victory over Southend at the DW Stadium. Southend’s Jermaine McGlashan was sent off for what has been roundly denounced as a poor two-footed tackle on Callum Elder, Wigan’s Australian defender on loan from Leicester City, who was OK to continue. Michael Jacobs’ deflected strike, a breakaway finished by Nick Powell and an Ivan Toney tap-in claimed the points in style.
• There was a moment of serious concern at The Valley when the referee, Robert Lewis, collapsed on to the pitch following an accidental collision with the Charlton striker Josh Magennis. Their game with Doncaster was delayed by seven minutes as Lewis received treatment, but fortunately he was well enough to be helped from the pitch via a combination of visiting players and home medical staff. Charlton were 1-0 ahead at the time through Tarique Fosu’s ninth-minute goal and held on to climb into the top six.
