Stockport saw off struggling King’s Lynn 5-0 in their Vanarama National League match at Edgeley Park to close up on the play-off places.County, looking to extend their unbeaten start under new boss Dave Challinor, took the lead in the 34th minute when Jordan Keane fired the ball in following Ryan Rydel’s free-kick.Stockport doubled their lead on the stroke of half-time as Rydel score...Full Story »

Trevoh Chalobah, Reece James, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Timo Werner struck to sink Juventus 4-0 and march an imperious Chelsea into the Champions League’s last 16. The defending champions battered the outclassed Italians, Chelsea booking their place in the knockout stages but also overhauling their Serie A rivals at the top of Group H. Match or better Juve’s result in the final set ...Full Story »

Chesterfield conceded twice in the last six minutes as the National League leaders drew 2-2 with Altrincham at home.The hosts opened the scoring in the 11th minute through Liam Mandeville, the ball falling to the 24-year-old in the area before his deflected strike looped over keeper Tony Thompson.The Spireites doubled their advantage just before half-time through Kabongo Tshimanga as he finished...Full Story »

Jack Payne struck in stoppage time to seal Swindon’s 3-1 win at home to Hartlepool as the Robins moved into the automatic promotion places.Wales international Jonny Williams and Tyreece Simpson were also on target for the hosts at the County Ground.Confusion broke out in the 28th minute as Hartlepool striker Mark Cullen seemed to have fired the visitors in front only for the linesman to pu...Full Story »

Steve Cotterill believes his side’s battling draw against Sunderland was his best result since he took over at the club.After Alex Pritchard gave the visitors an early lead, Salop were reduced to 10 men when David Davis was handed a straight red card.But Shrewsbury battled back with Daniel Udoh netting on the hour mark to earn the home side a point.Cotterill said: “The lads were fant...Full Story »

Rotherham boss Paul Warne beamed with pride as the Millers climbed to the top of the League One table after a 2-0 win at Ipswich.Ben Wiles’ superb strike and a second goal from Shane Ferguson secured an emphatic victory for RotherhamThe win extended their unbeaten run in the league to 12 games, and saw Ipswich drop down to 13th place.Warne said: “It was a really good performance and ...Full Story »

An impressive second-half fightback secured Tranmere an important 2-1 League Two victory against Bradford.Micky Mellon’s side secured a welcome first win in six games, while Bradford have now gone four without success.Rovers went close early on when Bradford striker Lee Angol was ideally placed to clear Kieron Morris’ powerful header off the line.Bantams’ goalkeeper Richard O&r...Full Story »

Substitute Jake Scrimshaw rescued a point for bottom-of-the-table  Scunthorpe as they came from behind to draw 1-1 at home to Leyton Orient.The on-loan Bournemouth striker forced the ball home four minutes after coming off the bench to cancel out Aaron Drinan’s first-half opener.Play-off hopefuls Orient will view the game as two points dropped, with the wasteful visitors unable to tak...Full Story »

Omar Bugiel’s first league goal since the opening day of the season got Sutton back to winning ways with a 2-0 win over Mansfield Town.Sutton made a bright start to proceedings and had a shout for a clear penalty waved away when Bugiel was dragged down inside the box.But their early dominance told when Louis John fired home from close range in the fourth minute.Sutton stopper Dean Bouzanis...Full Story »

Chris Wilder was made to wait for his first win as Middlesbrough manager after Preston came from behind to win 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium.Pressure looked to be mounting on Preston head coach Frankie McAvoy when Paddy McNair headed Boro in front in the 33rd minute.But after a string of good saves from Preston’s Daniel Iversen, McAvoy celebrated three points after two late goals inside fou...Full Story »

Sheffield United midfielder John Fleck was taken off on a stretcher after a serious-looking incident in the second half of the Championship game at Reading.With United leading 1-0, Fleck went down apparently unchallenged and his team-mates quickly indicated for the medics to run on the pitch to tend to him.The 30-year-old received “urgent medical care”, the Blades said on their offic...Full Story »

AFC Wimbledon rebounded from three straight league defeats with a thrilling 3-2 victory over Crewe at The Cherry Red Records Stadium.Christopher Long put Crewe in front, though a strike from Jack Rudoni and Ollie Palmer’s brace saw the hosts take all three points despite Chris Porter’s late consolation.Crewe took the lead after 11 minutes when Long struck his low effort across Dons&r...Full Story »

Covid-hit Oxford United made light of their illness and injury crisis by overcoming Fleetwood 3-1 at the Kassam Stadium thanks to a flying start.The U’s, without 13 players after seven tested positive for Covid-19 last Saturday, stormed into a two-goal lead inside 13 minutes.Centre back Luke McNally nodded in Herbie Kane’s corner after five minutes.Eight minutes later midfielder Came...Full Story »

Sean Long scored his first goal of the season as Cheltenham made it back-to-back wins in Sky Bet League One with a 2-0 victory at struggling Gillingham.This was the two teams’ fourth meeting of the season and it was the Robins who came out on top for the third time, as they moved up to 10th in the table.After John Akinde rolled a good early chance wide for Gillingham, Cheltenham’s Al...Full Story »

A Matty Stevens brace ruined Barrow boss Mark Cooper’s return to his former club as Forest Green opened up a five-point lead at the top of League Two with a 2-0 win.On a frustrating night for Cooper’s men, Stevens banked a second-half double to take his tally to 14 goals for the season.In a war of first-half attrition, the game failed to gain any momentum from the get-go as a clash o...Full Story »

Brandon Thomas-Asante struck a dramatic injury-time equaliser as nine-man Salford rescued a 1-1 home draw with Bristol Rovers.The Ammies’ striker found the bottom corner in the fifth of 11 added minutes to stun Rovers who were coasting after the dismissals of Matty Willock and Ash Hunter.The home side could have scored with their first attack as Liam Shephard released Thomas-Asante but the...Full Story »

Battling Blackpool clung on for a precious point as they frustrated promotion-chasing West Brom at Bloomfield Road in an entertaining 0-0 draw.The hosts soaked up a barrage of pressure as the Baggies dominated proceedings but, despite creating a string of chances, the visitors could find no way through.And that means Valerian Ismael’s team have still not won away from home for nearly two m...Full Story »

Walsall picked up three vital points in a feisty affair as they won 1-0 at Port Vale who finished the game with 10 men.Brendan Kiernan scored the winner in the first half when his low driven strike found the bottom left corner.The opener came after the Saddlers started on the front foot and were dominant in possession in the first half. Before Kieran’s strike, Conor Wilkinson struck the po...Full Story »

Brice Samba saved an Elijah Adebayo penalty to earn 10-man Nottingham Forest a 0-0 home draw with Luton.The hosts conceded the spot-kick when Jack Colback hauled down Tom Lockyer in the box, leading to his second caution of the game and first red card since May 2010.But, despite still having half an hour to muster a winning goal following Adebayo’s miss, the Hatters failed to press home th...Full Story »

Substitute Josh Windass returned from injury to score a stoppage-time winner in a 2-1 victory for Sheffield Wednesday against MK Dons.Wednesday had the ball in the net in the first half when Ciaran Brennan bundled in but play was brought back for a foul on an MK Dons man.The home side were stunned on 47 minutes when Scott Twine’s brilliant effort from distance...Full Story »