Blair Spittal scored within a minute of coming off the bench to earn Ross County a 1-0 victory over Premier Sports Cup finalists Hibernian.Spittal’s cross went through a crowd of bodies before ending up in the net in the 72nd minute in Dingwall.Paul Hanlon had hit a post for Hibs and Kevin Nisbet passed up a series of good chances as the Leith side suffered a fifth consecutive cinch Premie...Full Story »

Blackburn made it two wins in three with an emphatic 4-0 victory over woeful Peterborough in the Sky Bet Championship.Tony Mowbray’s men were home and dry by half-time after a three-goal, first-half blitz put them out of sight of their beleaguered visitors.From the moment Harry Pickering headed Rovers into a 16th-minute lead on his 150th career league start, the game had an air of inevitab...Full Story »

Tyreeq Bakinson’s first-half goal gave Bristol City a 1-0 Sky Bet Championship win over Stoke at Ashton Gate.It came on 38 minutes when Chris Martin headed on a Tomas Kalas long throw and midfielder Bakinson volleyed in from close range.Stoke missed a catalogue of chances to extend a three-match winning streak and the injury-time sending off of Joe Allen for a second yellow card completed ...Full Story »

Michael Carrick says Manchester United's win over Villarreal was for former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Carrick was placed in charge as interim manager against Villarreal after Solskjaer was sacked on Sunday. The Red Devils ran out 2-0 winners thanks to late goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Jadon Sancho, booking their place in the Champions League last-16 phase. Speaking after the game, C...Full Story »

Italian champions Inter Milan are ready to cash in on instrumental centre-back Stefan de Vrij. According to The Spurs Web, via CalcioMercato, Antonio Conte’s former club are ready to cash in on the Dutch defender, with Conte asking Spurs to make him the number one transfer target in the upcoming January transfer window. The report indicates that Inter are said to be open to letting the...Full Story »

Newcastle still want Vlahovic despite €80m asking price (Corriere Fiorentino)Juventus still determined to land striker Newcastle have not been turned off of signing Dusan Vlahovic from Fiorentina despite the €80 million asking price the Serie A side have set. Juventus are deemed the favourites to land the striker and hope to bring him to Turin in January, but Corriere Fiorentino ...Full Story »

Port Vale manager Darrell Clarke admitted his entire team should feel embarrassed and were a “million miles off” the pace as his side lost 1-0 to Walsall at Vale Park.Brendan Kiernan scored the only goal to wrap up a vital win for his side.Clarke said: “Mind my language, but I’m embarrassed. My players should be embarrassed, my staff should be embarrassed, putting on a pe...Full Story »

Boss Ian Evatt celebrated a “good three points” but was left counting the cost of Bolton’s 3-0 League One win over relegation-threatened Doncaster.Wanderers moved up to 11th with their second successive home league win against 10-man Rovers.But goals by Eoin Doyle, Elias Kachunga and George Thomason were tempered by Lloyd Isgrove’s hamstring injury and an impending suspen...Full Story »

Delighted Matt Gray admitted he would have bitten your hand off to be in the League Two play-offs at this stage of the season after his side’s 2-0 win over Mansfield.Sutton jumped into seventh thanks to Louis John’s opener and Omar Bugiel’s stunning second-half strike at Gander Green Lane.Most importantly the hosts bounced back from their 4-1 defeat to Leyton Orient on Saturday...Full Story »

Colchester boss Hayden Mullins praised his side’s “clinical” display after they ended Exeter’s 15-match unbeaten league run with a splendid 3-1 win.The Us took a 12th-minute lead when Sylvester Jasper controlled before scoring with a low shot from the edge of the area, from Luke Hannant’s short pass.And Colchester doubled their lead in the third minute of first-half...Full Story »

Mark Robins and Lee Bowyer bemoaned refereeing decisions as Coventry and Birmingham battled to a 0-0 draw at the Coventry Building Society Arena.Ryan Woods was sent off for the visitors for bringing down Ian Maatsen and preventing a dangerous Sky Blues counter attack while Robins claimed the hosts should have had a penalty for a foul by Dion Sanderson on Viktor Gyokeres.Blues boss Bowyer said: &...Full Story »

Rochdale boss Robbie Stockdale was left to rue two sloppy goals but found it difficult to criticise his side’s performance in the 2-2 draw against Stevenage.Dale dominated the first half and led twice only to be pegged back by Elliott List levellers on both occasions.“If I look at the critical aspect of our game, the two goals we conceded were poor goals, I don’t think they had...Full Story »

Oxford boss Karl Robinson was thrilled with his team’s 3-1 victory over Fleetwood after his club’s Covid-19-related problems.The U’s were without 13 players after seven tested positive last Saturday and others who were close contacts were forced to self-isolate.And Robinson was only able to sign a goalkeeper, Connal Trueman, on an emergency loan from Birmingham just hours befor...Full Story »

Boss Kenny Jackett bemoaned Leyton Orient’s inability to kill the game off as his side were forced to settle for a seventh draw in nine League Two away matches at Scunthorpe.Aaron Drinan’s 10th goal of the season gave the O’s a 21st-minute lead in a game they dominated, only for substitute Jake Scrimshaw to rescue a point for the bottom-of-the-table Iron four minutes after comi...Full Story »

Morecambe boss Stephen Robinson was proud of his players’ efforts after they came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with in-form Charlton at the Mazuma Stadium.Diallang Jaiyesimi and Conor Washington fired Charlton into a two-goal lead before goals from Cole Stockton (penalty) and Anthony O’Connor earned the Shrimps a deserved point.Robinson said: “We had to come from behind agai...Full Story »

An emotional Danny Cowley could not have wished for a better return to the LNER Arena after his Portsmouth side crushed Lincoln 3-0 in their Sky Bet League One clash to record a fifth successive victory.Cowley gained legendary status at the Imps, winning the Conference and League Two titles, as well as the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy, while also reaching the FA Cup quarter-final.The 43-year-o...Full Story »

An angry Keith Millen berated Carlisle’s wastefulness after Harrogate secured an unlikely 2-0 win.The Cumbrians, still in pursuit of a first League Two win under their new boss, dictated the first half but were dealt a sucker-punch blow when George Thomson struck in added time.Despite continuing in the ascendancy after the restart, the home side’s profligacy in front of goal was agai...Full Story »

Grounded Forest Green head coach Rob Edwards insists the season is still in its infancy after his side opened up a five-point gap at the top of League Two with a 2-0 win at home to Barrow.A Matty Stevens brace ruined former Forest Green boss Mark Cooper’s homecoming as the league leaders strengthened their position at the summit.On a frustrating night for Cooper’s Barrow, Stevens ban...Full Story »

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was a very satisfied manager after watching Burton end their four-game losing run in League One with a ruthless 4-0 dismantling of Accrington.The Brewers roared back to winning ways in some style thanks to braces from Daniel Jebbison and Jonny Smith.Jebbison grabbed his fourth goal of the campaign, turning smartly on a loose ball in the box to fire home after 28 minutes.S...Full Story »

AFC Wimbledon assistant manager Rob Turvey still wants more from his side after they rallied from an early goal down to beat Crewe 3-2 at The Cherry Red Records Stadium.Wimbledon dominated early on before Crewe, League One’s bottom side, took the lead when Christopher Long fired past Dons goalkeeper Nik Tzanev and went in off the far post.Dons equalised through Jack Rudoni on 24 minutes be...Full Story »