Northampton registered back-to-back Sky Bet League Two home wins with a routine 3-0 victory over lowly Stevenage.Kion Etete and Sam Hoskins struck in the first half, before Fraser Horsfall made the game safe in the second as the home side moved into the play-off positions.After a quiet opening 33 minutes, Northampton broke the deadlock when Mitch Pinnock sent Etete racing away on goal and his lo...Full Story »

Tom O’Connor earned Burton all three points in a 1-0 Sky Bet League One victory over Fleetwood at Highbury.O’Connor scored his fourth goal of the season and his third in the last two games in the 36th minute direct from a corner when his inswinger evaded everyone and ended up in the roof of the home net.The goal came at a time when Burton were dominant with the wind at their backs an...Full Story »

Bournemouth went six points clear at the Championship summit after a battling 1-0 away win over fellow promotion-chasing Stoke.Striker Dominic Solanke’s 51st-minute goal did the damage and the former Chelsea man also hit the crossbar as the Cherries inflicted a first home league defeat of the season on the Potters.Jordan Thompson struck a post with the hosts’ best chance of the game,...Full Story »

Robbie Gotts’ second goal of the season earned Barrow a 1-1 draw and denied basement-boys Scunthorpe only their second Sky Bet League Two win of the season.Gotts struck 10 minutes from time after Barrow’s leading marksman Ollie Banks saw a 74th-minute penalty saved by Rory Watson.Barrow hit the bar late on through Josh Gordon but a home win would have been harsh on Neil Cox’s s...Full Story »

Substitute Lyle Taylor struck twice in stoppage time as Nottingham Forest extended Bristol City’s Ashton Gate misery with a 2-1 Championship win.The hosts took a 39th minute lead when Nahki Wells saw his low shot from just outside the box saved at full stretch by Brice Samba, only for the ball to break for Alex Scott to fire into an unguarded net.City were still ahead on 90 minutes, but Na...Full Story »

Harrogate extended their unbeaten home run to 10 games and kept fellow high-fliers Tranmere below them in the League Two table following an entertaining 2-2 draw.The visitors led through a Jay Spearing penalty before a Jack Muldoon spot-kick and Luke Armstrong’s eighth goal of the season put the Sulphurites in the ascendancy, only for Kieron Morris to secure a share of the spoils.Harrogate...Full Story »

Second-half goals from Matt Jay, Nigel Atangana and Sam Nombe gave Exeter a 3-1 victory at 10-man Crawley.The hosts, who had led through Kwesi Appiah’s header, had striker Ashley Nadesan dismissed for two bookable offences before half-time as they went down to back-to-back defeats.Exeter boss Matt Taylor made four changes and the recalled Jake Caprice tested veteran keeper Glenn Morris ear...Full Story »

Mohamed Salah set yet another goalscoring record as Liverpool recovered from squandering a two-goal lead to beat 10-man Atletico Madrid 3-2 on a wild Champions League night in the Wanda Metropolitano.Salah became the first man in the club’s history to score in nine successive matches with the first and last goals of a thoroughly-absorbing and occasionally crazy game.In between a superb Nab...Full Story »

Assistant head coach Craig Short believed Oxford responded well to Saturday’s home defeat against Plymouth, after the 2-0 defeat of Shrewsbury at the Kassam Stadium.Short took charge of the team in the absence of boss Karl Robinson, who watched the game at home while awaiting the results of a Covid-19 PCR test after feeling unwell.Goals from Mark Sykes less than a minute into the second ha...Full Story »

Newport ended with nine men as Ed Upson and Ryan Haynes saw red in the second half of their 2-2 draw with Carlisle at Rodney Parade.Upson was the first to go for handling the ball on the goal line as he conceded a penalty which Zach Clough struck home to level the scores in the 66th minute of a game played in torrential rain.Then Haynes got his marching orders for a clumsy challenge which earned...Full Story »