Mani Dieseruvwe came off the bench to score a hat-trick as Hartlepool eased the pressure on manager Darren Sarll with a hard-fought 4-3 win at home to Sutton.The visitors cruised into a 2-0 lead, with Jayden Harris firing them in front after six minutes from Josh Coley’s pass and Ashley Nadesan turning home Eduino Vaz’s deep cross in the 25th minute.Luke Charman pulled a goal back fo...Full Story »

Bristol Rovers scored three second-half goals to come from behind and win 3-1 at 10-man Burton in League One.Albion had led through Danilo Orsi but Rovers substitute Shaq Forde levelled before Clinton Mola and Grant Ward secured victory for Matt Taylor’s side.Orsi’s fourth goal of the season came after 15 minutes and was reward for a bright start from Mark Robinson’s team.Orsi ...Full Story »

Chesterfield twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with Walsall.Nathan Lowe scored both Walsall goals while Darren Oldaker and Dilan Markanday were on the scoresheet for the hosts.Lowe scored Walsall’s opener in the 33rd minute after Chesterfield’s defence failed to capitalise on the rebound, allowing him to easily slot the ball in the centre of the goal.Oldaker’s coolly placed sh...Full Story »

Gateshead maintained their impressive Vanarama National League form with a 1-0 home victory over Wealdstone.Jovan Malcolm was the hero as his 73rd-minute strike gave Gateshead a third consecutive win.Thomas Allan had earlier gone close to breaking the deadlock when denied by a fine Sam Howes save.Micah Obiero and Jack Wells-Morrison had chances for the visitors but Wealdstone’s winless run...Full Story »

Ryan Woods scored his first goal in almost seven years to earn Exeter a hard fought 1-0 win over battling Cambridge in League One.Woods struck in the 23rd minute after Cambridge failed to clear a corner and the experienced playmaker drilled a superb shot into the opposite corner from the edge of the penalty box.It was the only goal in a tight encounter and Cambridge will feel hard done by a...Full Story »

Arne Slot does not expect goalkeeper Alisson to be available for Liverpool’s Premier League match against Chelsea later this month after he sustained a suspected hamstring injury in their 1-0 win at Crystal Palace.The Brazilian hobbled off in the second half after making a clearance, with Vitezslav Jaros coming on.Liverpool’s number one has been hampered by hamstring injuries and is ...Full Story »

Paul Heckingbottom was frustrated his Preston side’s training ground work on free-kicks was thwarted by a “bad” offside decision as they earned a 0-0 draw at Burnley in the Championship.Preston were denied a fourth-minute goal when Emil Riis timed his run on to a clever low Ben Whiteman’s free-kick to sweep a shot into the net – with television replays showing the D...Full Story »

Charlie Adam was satisfied with a point from Fleetwood’s goalless draw at home to Bromley, a game where neither side showed the necessary cutting edge in front of goal.Bromley should have led at half-time but Cod Army keeper David Harrington stood firm in the face of fine chances for the visitors.And, although Fleetwood were on top for much of the second half, they could not replicate the ...Full Story »

Assistant manager Kieran Scarff admitted Peterborough’s performance in their last-gasp 2-1 victory over Stevenage did not merit them earning all three points.Despite opening the scoring early at London Road, Darren Ferguson’s side were second-best for long periods against the Boro, who were eventually made to pay for missing a host of chances.The sucker punch came in the fourth minut...Full Story »

Norwich head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup admitted keeper Angus Gunn was a doubt for Scotland’s forthcoming Nations League matches after picking up a knock in his side’s 4-0 win over Hull in the Championship.Gunn, who has established himself as Scotland’s number over the past year, was injured during the closing stages of the first half at Carrow Road and did not appear after the...Full Story »

Grant McCann felt Doncaster’s first-half display in the 3-0 win at Grimsby was the best his side have played this season.Jordan Gibson led the way with a brace and Luke Molyneux was also on target before the break, with Grimsby defender Harvey Rodgers seeing red on the stroke of half-time.That meant Doncaster had a man advantage for more than 45 minutes, but they were unable to add to thei...Full Story »

Huddersfield boss Michael Duff was relieved to see his side end their four-game losing run with a 2-0 victory over Barnsley.Ben Wiles and David Kasumu struck inside the last seven minutes for the hosts to deliver a home win that Duff felt was no less than the Terriers deserved against his former club.He said: “I thought we were good value for the win. You’re never going to dominate a...Full Story »

Portsmouth head coach John Mousinho apologised to assistant referee Bhupinder Singh Gill for an alleged discriminatory comment made from the stands during Portsmouth’s 1-1 draw with Oxford.Singh Gill drew attention to alleged offensive remarks made towards him during the second half at Fratton Park to referee Lewis Smith, with the club later appealing for information to help identify those...Full Story »

Burnley missed the chance to go top of the Championship as they were held to a 0-0 draw by Preston in a scrappy, occasionally bad-tempered Lancashire derby.The visitors gained a valuable point in their bid to pull away from the relegation zone, in their first outing since striker Milutin Osmajic was given an eight-match ban for biting.Preston could feel hard done, as they saw a fourth-minute goa...Full Story »

Louie Sibley came off the bench to fire his first Oxford goal and deny Portsmouth a first win of the season in a 1-1 draw at Fratton Park.Mark O’Mahony had stooped low to head Pompey into a 58th-minute lead, after Elias Sorensen had seen an early penalty saved.Sibley brilliantly finished from the edge of the area 128 seconds after coming on as Oxford drew on the road for the second time in...Full Story »

Norwich maintained their impressive surge up the Championship table with a 4-0 demolition of a ragged Hull side at Carrow Road.The Tigers went into the match with three straight wins behind them but were no match for a rampant home outfit who scored twice in each half to make it four wins in six games.Helped by some desperately poor defending, Norwich scored two early goals in quick succession t...Full Story »

Ben Wiles and David Kasumu were on target as Huddersfield halted a four-match losing run with a late 2–0 League One victory against manager Michael Duff’s former club Barnsley.Huddersfield dominated the first half but were unable to make a breakthrough, with Callum Marshall having a backwards header turned wide by Gabriel Slonina.Bojan Radulovic did well to get onto a bouncing ball i...Full Story »

A failure to finish proved both sides’ undoing as Fleetwood and Bromley played out a 0-0 draw.The visitors had the better of the first half, while the Cod Army were on top after the break but wasted chances at both ends meant a point apiece.Fleetwood were grateful to goalkeeper David Harrington for keeping them in contention at the break. Harrington rescued his side when they surrendered p...Full Story »

Kwame Poku netted a stoppage-time winner as Peterborough got themselves back on track in Sky Bet League One with a narrow 2-1 victory at home to Stevenage.It was the Posh’s first win in four games, but it was harsh on their opponents, who looked set for a deserved share of the spoils thanks to Louis Thompson’s second-half equaliser.Peterborough were ahead after only five minutes when...Full Story »

Diogo Jota’s goal kept Liverpool at the top of the Premier League for another week as they beat Crystal Palace 1-0 at Selhurst Park.The Portugal international punished some poor defending to earn Arne Slot’s men a third league win on the spin.Liverpool showed their title pedigree in south London and head into the international break in high spirits ahead of a home clash against Chels...Full Story »