Andre Gray scored a dramatic last-minute winner as QPR climbed to third in the Sky Bet Championship with a 2-1 victory at Derby.Gray pounced after an Ilias Chair header came back off the bar to shatter Derby, who had led through Tom Lawrence’s 50th goal of his career.Lawrence finished clinically following Graeme Shinnie’s precise pass but Rangers hit back early in the second half thr...Full Story »

The Posh welcomed their fellow relegation battlers to London Road on Saturday afternoon looking to narrow the gap between themselves and 21st-placed Reading. Peterborough United's Championship clash with Barnsley was plunged into darkness when the floodlights failed Credit: REX The duo ended up sharing spoils in the dull 0-0 draw, which will best be remembered for the floodlights failing in th...Full Story »

New Barnsley boss Poya Asbaghi was in no mood to celebrate a first point after his second game in the hot seat.The Tykes battled out a goalless stalemate at relegation rivals Peterborough, but it was a result that did neither side any favours in the survival battle.Asbaghi’s newly inherited side now find themselves eight points from safety, with hosts Posh also four points adrift in the bo...Full Story »

Relegation rivals Peterborough and Barnsley battled out a 0-0 draw that did nothing to help their Sky Bet Championship survival prospects.Two teams in the bottom three lost more ground in the fight to avoid the drop after a game interrupted by a floodlight failure 10 minutes from time, although it did provide a first point of new Tykes chief Poya Asbaghi’s reign.Power was restored within 2...Full Story »

Festy Ebosele should be fit when Derby host QPR on Monday night.The teenager started on the right wing against Fulham on Wednesday but was forced off with cramp as the Rams earned a creditable goalless draw against the Championship leaders.The hamstring injury Sam Baldock suffered in the home win over Bournemouth is set to keep the forward out for “a few weeks”, according to Rams bos...Full Story »

Peterborough could have midfielder Joel Randall back in contention for their crunch battle with fellow Sky Bet Championship strugglers Barnsley.Summer signing Randall, who has been out since August with a thigh injury, has had two run-outs with the under-23s recently and is close to a return.The game may come too soon for forward Ricky-Jade Jones, but he is also back in training and nearing fitn...Full Story »

QPR manager Mark Warburton paid tribute to Luke Amos after he marked his recent return from a long-term injury with a late winner against Huddersfield.Rangers’ 1-0 victory took them up to fourth in the table and preserved their record of being the only Sky Bet Championship side to have scored in all their league matches this season.And it was a sweet moment for Amos, who headed home Chris ...Full Story »

Wayne Rooney insisted Derby will not give up the fight against relegation after the 0-0 draw with Championship leaders Fulham.The Rams had been left on minus three points following a points deduction last week but after following up Sunday’s victory over Bournemouth with the stalemate at Craven Cottage, the bottom club have collected four points in two games.Rooney’s side held on in ...Full Story »

Tony Mowbray praised the mentality of Blackburn’s “exciting young team” after they thumped Peterborough 4-0 to move within a point of the play-offs.They had the game wrapped up after racing into a 3-0 lead by half-time through Harry Pickering’s looping header, Ben Brereton Diaz’s tap-in after Tyrhys Dolan retrieved possession, and Darragh Lenihan’s emphatic fa...Full Story »

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hailed Thiago Alcantara’s “thunderball” goal which set them on their way to a 2-0 victory over Porto and a fifth successive Champions League win.The Spain international broke the deadlock with a delicious low, first-time, 25-yard half-volley which was subsequently added to by Mohamed Salah’s sixth European goal of the season.It was only the ...Full Story »

Sky Bet Championship leaders Fulham were unable to make up for the absence of 21-goal top scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic as they were held to a 0-0 draw by bottom club Derby at Craven Cottage.Marco Silva’s side were seeking an eighth successive win but they were denied by Wayne Rooney’s determined side, who followed up Sunday’s victory over Bournemouth with another impressive displ...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 »

Tosin Adarabioyo and Denis Odoi both return to contention for in-form Fulham as they prepare to host Derby.Adarabioyo has completed a three-match suspension, while full-back Odoi also served a one-match ban on Saturday as the Cottagers won 4-1 against Barnsley – a seventh straight league success for the Championship leaders.Despite, Adarabioyo’s availability, Fulham boss Marco Silva ...Full Story »

Blackburn boss Tony Mowbray will be without Ian Poveda for Wednesday night’s Sky Bet Championship clash with Peterborough as the midfielder faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines.The 21-year-old, who is on loan at Ewood Park from Premier League Leeds, fractured his fibula and damaged ligaments in his left ankle during Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Bristol City and will require surgery and a...Full Story »