Championship
- Four penalties were awarded and all four were scored during a thrilling encounter as Hull beat Norwich 4-3, having been 3-1 down at half-time. James Maddison grabbed a first-half hat-trick, including two from the spot. Abel Hernández then scored two penalties as the Tigers fought back to 3-3 before Harry Wilson’s 71st minute winner. Jackson Irvine had begun the glut of goals with a sixth minute strike for Hull, who pulled themselves six points clear of the bottom three.
Championship
Aston Villa 4-1 Wolves, Burton 0-0 Bristol City, Cardiff 3-2 Birmingham, Hull City 4-3 Norwich City, Ipswich 0-0 Sheffield United, Middlesbrough 3-1 Barnsley, Millwall 1-0 Brentford, Preston 1-2 Fulham, QPR 1-0 Sunderland, Reading 2-2 Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Bolton
League One
Blackburn 3-0 Blackpool, Bristol Rovers 1-1 Northampton, Bury 2-2 Oldham, Fleetwood 1-1 Plymouth, Peterborough 4-1 Charlton, Portsmouth 1-3 Gillingham, Rotherham 0-1 Rochdale, Shrewsbury 2-0 Walsall, Southend 0-0 Doncaster, Wigan 3-3 Scunthorpe, Wimbledon 2-1 Oxford United
League Two
Chesterfield 1-3 Lincoln, Coventry 1-0 Barnet, Crawley 1-1 Morecambe, Exeter 1-1 Carlisle, Forest Green 1-2 Notts County, Grimsby 1-1 Port Vale, Luton 1-2 Accrington, Mansfield 1-1 Colchester, Stevenage 2-2 Crewe, Swindon 0-3 Cheltenham, Wycombe 1-1 Cambridge, Yeovil 0-2 Newport
- Cardiff kept up their recent breakneck pace in the race for automatic promotion by beating Birmingham 3-2 to complete a sixth successive victory, to go within three points of leaders Wolves, who lost 4-1 at Aston Villa, and five clear of chasers Fulham. Goals from Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Craig Bryson and Callum Paterson had Neil Warnock’s team cruising by half-time only for them to suffer a second-half wobble. Craig Gardner scored a penalty and Maxime Colin’s injury-time goal but Blues could not claim a badly needed point, as Garry Monk suffered a second defeat of his first week in charge of Birmingham.
- Fulham kept up their automatic promotion pursuit with a 2-1 win at Preston. In-form Aleksandr Mitrovic scored the sixth and seventh goals of his highly impressive loan spell either side of an equaliser from Sean Maguire.
- Sunderland’s woes continued in losing 1-0 at QPR, after goalkeeper Jason Steele was sent off for handling outside the box. Eberchi Eze broke the away team’s resistance in the 62nd minute. Chris Coleman’s team stay rock bottom of the division.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolverhampton | 36 | 32 | 76 |
| 2 | Cardiff | 36 | 25 | 73 |
| 3 | Aston Villa | 36 | 26 | 69 |
| 4 | Fulham | 37 | 25 | 68 |
| 5 | Derby | 36 | 21 | 61 |
- Middlesbrough stayed in in sixth after a 3-1 defeat of Barnsley. Patrick Bamford kept up his rich vein of scoring form in scoring Boro’s third goal after Daniel Ayala and Adam Traoré had begun the scoring. Barnsley lost their chance to open up some ground on the bottom three with Birmingham and Sunderland
- Burton drew 0-0 with Bristol City, a result that was little use to either team in their hunt for the play-offs and precious points in the relegation battle.
League One
- Blackburn stayed five points clear at the top of the division after breezing past Blackpool 3-0 in a Lancastrian derby in which they were not required to get out of second gear. Bradley Dack opened the scoring before two goals from Adam Armstrong. Second-placed Shrewsbury’s 2-0 home defeat of Walsall arrived via goals from Alex Rodman and Abu Ogogo.
- Wigan lost ground on the top two by drawing 3-3 with Scunthorpe and needed a late equaliser from Gary Roberts to claim a point. Chey Dunkley and Will Grigg twice put the hosts ahead but Tom Hopper equalised on both occasions. Ivan Toney put Scunthorpe into the lead before Roberts’ 87th minute goal arrived via a deflection.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blackburn | 37 | 35 | 76 |
| 2 | Shrewsbury | 35 | 21 | 71 |
| 3 | Wigan | 33 | 39 | 68 |
| 4 | Rotherham | 35 | 18 | 62 |
| 5 | Scunthorpe | 37 | 10 | 58 |
- Plymouth’s recent charge came to a halt with a 1-1 draw at Fleetwood. Moses Makasi’s opener looked to have set Argyle on their way to a seventh successive win but Fleetwood striker Paddy Madden cancelled that out. Peterborough’s 4-1 defeat of Charlton lifted them within a single point of Plymouth in the battle for the final play-off position.
- A local derby between Bury and Oldham ended in a 2-2 draw at Gigg Lane. Goals from Jay O’Shea and Neil Danns had put Bury 2-0 up, but Craig Davies and then Ben Pringle’s late equaliser kept honours even. Bury stayed bottom, while Oldham dropped to 19th.
League Two
- Accrington climbed to the top of the table after winning 2-1 at previous leaders Luton. It took an injury-time strike from Billy Kee to lift them there. A seventh win in eight matches came after Accrington took the lead through Sean McConville and Elliot Lee had equalised for Luton.
- Play was held up for 30 minutes during Chesterfield’s home game with Lincoln, as an air ambulance was required to attend to a fan who had been taken seriously ill in the stands. Lincoln eventually ran out 3-1 winners.
- Charlie Kirk scored a 98th minute equaliser as Crewe drew 2-2 at Stevenage to stay a point clear of the bottom three.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accrington Stanley | 36 | 22 | 71 |
| 2 | Luton | 36 | 39 | 69 |
| 3 | Notts County | 37 | 21 | 65 |
| 4 | Wycombe | 36 | 16 | 63 |
| 5 | Mansfield | 36 | 18 | 62 |
