Barnsley bounced back from their opening defeat at home to Mansfield to collect their first points of the new season with a 2-1 win at Lincoln.Sam Cosgrove gave Barnsley an early lead before Marc Roberts doubled the lead moments after the restart and although Ben House pulled one back the Imps could not find an equaliser.Cosgrove opened the scoring with a fine finish into the bottom left corner ...Full Story »

Arthur Read and Jack Payne scored late on for Colchester to defeat MK Dons and collect their first points of the Sky Bet League Two season.With 10 minutes of normal time remaining, Samson Tovide found Read, with the substitute then calmly slotting the ball into the bottom left corner.Payne’s audacious effort in the fourth minute of stoppage time rose beyond Tom McGill and secured all three...Full Story »

Northampton claimed their first win of the season after coming from a goal behind to beat Exeter 2-1 in League One at Sixfields on Saturday.Tristan Crama gave City an early lead but second-half goals from summer signings Callum Morton and Cameron McGeehan gave the Cobblers all three points.Reece Cole was narrowly wide with a first-time shot before his corner led to the opening goal after eight m...Full Story »

Dundee stormed into the quarter-finals of the Premier Sports Cup with an emphatic 6-1 win over 10-man Airdrie at Dens Park.The Dark Blues netted twice before the break through Seb Palmer-Houlden and Jordan McGhee before adding four more goal in the second half from Scott Tiffoney, Antonio Portales, Curtis Main and Lyall Cameron.Adam Frizzell pulled one back for the Diamonds who had Dylan MacDona...Full Story »

Josh Barrett’s third-minute strike was enough for Aldershot to seal a 1-0 win at Halifax in the National League.Barrett curled Theo Widdrington’s backheel into the net in the opening moments to hand the visitors the advantage.Andrew Oluwabori had the opportunity to haul Halifax level on the stroke of half-time but his close-range header went wide.The home side pushed for an equaliser...Full Story »

Watford continued their winning start to the season with a convincing 3-0 victory at home to Stoke.Both sides had enjoyed opening-day wins in the Sky Bet Championship plus Carabao Cup successes against lower-league opposition in midweek.However, two goals in two minutes early in the second half from Edo Kayembe and Ryan Andrews set up a straightforward victory for Tom Cleverley’s hosts, wi...Full Story »

Hearts slumped to a shock 2-0 Premier Sports Cup defeat at Championship Falkirk as second-half goals from Ethan Ross and Dylan Tait sent their side into the quarter-finals.Steven Naismith’s side dominated much of the first half but were wasteful with their chances, Kenneth Vargas striking the crossbar from close range with one of the most glaring misses.That profligacy came back to haunt t...Full Story »

QPR fought back from two goals down to secure a 2-2 draw at Sheffield United in the Championship.Gustavo Hamer and Kieffer Moore put the home side 2-0 up inside 13 minutes as the Blades looked to make it three straight wins in all competitions to start the new season.But Rangers hit back with second-half goals from Jimmy Dunne and Lyndon Dykes, despite having substitute Jack Colback sent off whe...Full Story »

Stockport made it two wins from two by beating Blackpool 3-0 in a gritty clash at Bloomfield Road.In a busy second half, County’s Louie Barry, Jayden Fevrier and Tanto Oloafe all produced smart finishes to give Dave Challinor’s side maximum points.In a physical first half, both teams were missing a final pass going forwards. Barry was certainly Stockport’s danger man, striking ...Full Story »

Summer signing Yuki Ohashi came off the bench to grab a dramatic late equaliser as Blackburn snatched a battling 2-2 draw at Norwich.The Japanese striker headed home in the 87th minute to rescue a point after his side had squandered a half-time lead, with Josh Sargent and Borja Sainz scoring twice in eight second-half minutes to turn the game on its head.Ryan Hedges had produced an assured finis...Full Story »

Sam Folarin scored in the third minute of added time to rescue a point for Harrogate in a 3-3 draw at Accrington.Harrogate had led twice through James Daly and Ellis Taylor but entered stoppage time trailing after goals from Tyler Walton, Jimmy Knowles and Kelsey Mooney.Town’s Levi Sutton hit a post early on before the visitors started the scoring in the 16th minute.Stanley failed to clear...Full Story »

York registered their first victory of the new Vanarama National League season by dispatching Tamworth 2-0 at LNER Community Stadium.Two second-half goals in quick succession did the damage with Ollie Pearce netting a 54th-minute opener from the penalty spot following a foul by Haydn Hollis.And moments later, York powered further ahead when Billy Chadwick followed up his silky run by beating goa...Full Story »

Aberdeen left it late as a debut goal from Topi Keskinen eventually saw them find a way to overcome Championship side Queen’s Park 1-0 and progress to the Premier Sports Cup quarter-finals.The Dons, who had won all four of their group matches, were the better side against a Spiders team who had lost only once in the competition, to Hibernian.But with Bojan Miovski having departed for Giron...Full Story »

Forest Green maintained their unbeaten start to the new National League season with a 4-0 victory at Boston.The visitors delivered a dominant first-half display as they outclassed their hosts, who were condemned to a second successive league defeat.Christian Doidge opened the scoring after just three minutes as Boston found themselves immediately on the back foot and their defensive issues soon ...Full Story »

Callum Stead scored a double to fire Barnet to a 2-1 win at Ebbsfleet in the National League.Stead landed his first of the afternoon with just two minutes remaining of the first half when he prodded home from six yards.The 24-year-old netted his second with 70 minutes on the clock to leave the home side facing an uphill task to salvage anything from the game.Ebbsfleet were handed the slimmest of...Full Story »

Southend were unable to capitalise on Luke Waterfall’s second-half dismissal in a goalless National League draw at Hartlepool.The home side had their work cut out to salvage a result after defender Waterfall was sent off when he received a second yellow with 49 minutes played.Noor Husin, Gus Scott-Morriss and Jack Bridge all went close as Southend pushed for a winner.But, despite playing t...Full Story »

Jordan Davies netted a superb stoppage-time free-kick to halt a Cheltenham comeback as Grimsby won a five-goal thriller 3-2 at Blundell Park.The Wrexham loanee scored twice for the Mariners, who surrendered a two-goal lead in the second half but landed the final punch to claim their first league win of the campaign.The hosts took the lead on the stroke of half-time when a fantastic Charles Verna...Full Story »

An awful error by Grant Hall opened the floodgates as sloppy Swindon were hammered 4-0 by Walsall in Mark Kennedy’s first home game in charge.Goalkeeper Jack Bycroft came to the hosts’ rescue early on, pulling off a fabulous one-handed early save to deny Josh Gordon at the far post and then quickly getting down to claw away Gordon’s point-blank downward header.At the other end ...Full Story »

Arne Slot was happy to make light of predecessor Jurgen Klopp’s bugbear after he made a triumphant start to life as Liverpool boss with a 2-0 victory at Ipswich.One of Klopp’s big irritations was a Saturday 12.30pm kick-off, and it appeared for long periods at Portman Road that Slot may share the same gripe after Ipswich edged a tight first half in which the visitors failed to regist...Full Story »

Rob Edwards praised his Luton side for responding to their opening-day drubbing as they dug in with 10 men for more than an hour after goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski was sent off to earn a 0-0 draw at Portsmouth.Kaminski was shown two yellow cards in the space of three minutes, although Edwards refused to blame the Belgian keeper as Luton put last week’s hammering by Burnley behind them.Edward...Full Story »