Championship roundup: Brentford recover to defeat Middlesbrough
Brentford recovered from a poor begin to win 4-1 at Middlesbrough and climb into the highest two within the Championship.
Middlesbrough had been 1-0 up inside three minutes when the Brentford goalkeeper David Raya failed to gather Neeskens Kebano’s cross. However, the guests had been stage within the thirty eighth minute when Ivan Toney tapped in after good work by Tariqe Fosu – and so they took management after the break.
Vitaly Janelt (58) fired dwelling from the sting of the field after the highest scorer Toney had headed the ball down for him, Mathias Jensen (64) made it 3-1 following a slip from Paddy McNair, earlier than Toney tapped within the fourth 10 minutes from time.
Bournemouth ended their poor run with a 3-2 dwelling win over Birmingham, with Jack Wilshere scoring one and organising one other. The guests had been forward within the twenty seventh minute when Asmir Begovic spilled Gary Gardner’s cross and Scott Hogan cleaned up however Wilshere arrange Arnaut Danjuma to stage within the thirty sixth minute.
Wilshere headed the hosts forward simply previous the hour mark and though Hogan headed an equaliser seven minutes later, Philip Billing determined the competition when he tapped in unmarked on the far put up with 13 minutes remaining. The outcome leaves Birmingham within the backside three.
Curtis Nelson and Kieffer Moore acquired Cardiff’s targets within the 2-0 win at Bristol City to hand Mick McCarthy his first win since taking cost, whereas Millwall got here from behind to defeat Sheffield Wednesday 4-1. Callum Paterson gave Wednesday a Tenth-minute lead however Kenneth Zohore’s Thirty ninth-minute penalty levelled issues up and Scott Malone (68), Ben Thompson (69) and Tom Bradshaw (90) accomplished the turnaround.
New signing Glenn Murray impressed for Nottingham Forest within the 3-0 win at backside membership Wycombe. Murray lobbed the opener within the seventh minute and doubled the lead 9 minutes into the second half from the penalty spot, after being fouled. Anthony Knockaert wrapped up the factors within the 72nd minute.
Quick GuideLeague One roundup
A Ninetieth-minute objective from Jonny Smith on his debut helped backside League One membership Burton safe a shock 1-0 victory over high-flying Hull.
Burton’s deadline day signing from Bristol City made a big effect after approaching as a second-half substitute, accumulating Josh Parker’s cross earlier than coolly sliding the ball previous George Long.
City’s defeat means Lincoln keep prime courtesy of a 3-0 win at Gillingham on Friday night time whereas Doncaster drew stage on factors with Hull thanks to a 3-2 victory that ended Oxford’s 13-match unbeaten run.
Sunderland misplaced floor within the play-off race after being held to a 2-2 draw at MK Dons. James Bolton’s last-gasp objective earned Portsmouth some extent as Kenny Jackett’s males scored twice in as many minutes to draw 2-2 with Plymouth.
Wimbledon climbed out of the relegation zone with a 3-2 win over fellow strugglers Wigan on the DW Stadium, their first success in 12 matches. Simon Grayson’s first sport in command of Fleetwood led to disappointment as his workforce had been held to a goalless draw at dwelling by struggling Bristol Rovers.
Joe Pritchard was despatched off for Accrington Stanley for 2 yellow playing cards of their goalless conflict with struggling Northampton. Charlton bounced again from their midweek dwelling defeat by Portsmouth with a 2-0 victory at Rochdale, the place each targets got here earlier than half-time from Chuks Aneke and Deji Oshilaja.
Sammie Szmodics impressed a return to successful methods for Peterborough as they noticed off Crewe 2-0, scoring one and serving to create the second for main scorer Jonson Clarke-Harris, his sixteenth objective of the season.
An extended-range strike from Blackburn loanee Harry Chapman was sufficient for Shrewsbury to see off relegation rivals Swindon 1-0 whereas targets both aspect of half-time from Alan Judge and Luke Woolfenden helped Ipswich to a 2-0 win over Blackpool.
Yoann Barbet’s 54th-minute effort, QPR’s first objective at dwelling since 1 December, proved sufficient to safe a 1-0 dwelling win towards Blackburn. Rotherham climbed out of the relegation zone with a 2-1 win at Preston. Joe Rafferty’s Tenth-minute personal objective and Ben Wiles’ Fifty fifth-minute effort had them 2-0 forward at Deepdale, earlier than Ched Evans replied 10 minutes later.
James Collins gave Luton an Eleventh-minute lead at dwelling to Huddersfield however Naby Sarr equalised within the 74th minute. The guests’ Harry Toffolo was dismissed in harm time.
Reading’s promotion prospects weren’t helped by a 0-0 draw at Stoke and it was additionally goalless within the early kick-off between Coventry and Watford. Troy Deeney hit the woodwork late on however they failed to rating for an eighth time on the street this season towards draw specialists Coventry.
Barnsley’s match towards Derby was postponed following a noon pitch inspection at Oakwell, which adopted incessant heavy rain.
