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Championship

James McClean scored his first goal for Stoke as they beat Hull 2-0 to ease the pressure on Gary Rowett after the club’s tough start to life back in the second tier. Mame Biram Diouf’s deflected strike off Jordy de Wijs secured the three points; Hull had Evandro sent off for two bookable offences.

Early goals from Sheffield United’s Mark Duffy and Kieron Freeman plus John Fleck’s 70th-minute strike condemned Bolton to a 3-0 defeat, their first loss of their league campaign.



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Having held Leeds in midweek, Swansea lost to Bristol City, after Andreas Weimann scored his fifth goal of the season and the sole goal of the game in the very first minute at the Liberty Stadium.



In drawing 1-1 with Reading, Aston Villa lost star man Jack Grealish to injury at half-time but within six minutes of the break, Ahmed Elmohamady’s header had them in the lead. Sam Baldock rattled the crossbar for the visitors before slotting home the equalising penalty after Josh Sims was brought down.



Mason Mount scored the third goal of his loan spell from Chelsea as Derby beat Preston 2-0. Mount delivered the corner from which Richard Keogh scored the second, leaving manager Frank Lampard to celebrate a second league victory of the week.



Kasey Palmer’s close-range goal for Blackburn condemned Brentford to a first defeat of the season, and continued an unbeaten run for Tony Mowbray’s team.



Sheffield Wednesday beat Ipswich 2-1 through two goals from Lucas João. Aristote Nsiala scored Ipswich’s goal but was later sent off for a hacking foul on Fernando Forestieri.



In Saturday’s late game, Nottingham Forest and Birmingham drew a thriller 2-2. Lukas Jutkiewicz headed Birmingham’s first league goal since the opening day of the season in the 21st minute, ending a wait of 291 minutes, with a header before Che Adams doubled the lead in the 72nd minute. Joe Lolley’s strike three minutes later gave Forest hope and when Lolley had a shot saved by Blues goalkeeper Lee Camp, Daryl Murphy equalised in the 87th minute.



Quick guide Football League results Show Hide Championship Aston Villa 1-1 Reading, Blackburn 1-0 Brentford, Bolton 0-3 Sheff Utd,

Derby 2-0 Preston, Norwich 0-3 Leeds, QPR 1-0 Wigan, Sheff Wed 2-1 Ipswich, Stoke 2-0 Hull, Swansea 0-1 Bristol City. Late game: Nottm Forest 2-2 Birmingham

Friday: Middlesbrough 1-0 West Brom League One Blackpool 1-1 Accrington, Bradford 1-2 Wycombe, Bristol Rovers 0-1 Southend, Charlton 0-0 Fleetwood, Doncaster 0-0 Portsmouth, Gillingham 1-1 Coventry, Luton 3-2 Shrewsbury, Oxford 3-1 Burton, Plymouth 1-5 Peterborough, Rochdale 1-2 Walsall, Scunthorpe 2-2 Barnsley, Wimbledon 1-2 Sunderland. League Two Cambridge 0-1 Cheltenham, Carlisle 1-0 Crewe, Colchester 1-2 Northampton, Crawley 3-2 Bury, Forest Green 1-1 Swindon, Lincoln 3-1 Notts County, MK Dons 1-0 Exeter, Macclesfield 1-1 Mansfield, Morecambe 0-2 Oldham, Newport 1-0 Grimsby, Tranmere 1-0 Port Vale, Yeovil 2-0 Stevenage. Photograph: Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Europe

League One

Sunderland’s first ever meeting with AFC Wimbledon ended with Lee Cattermole as the Wearsiders’ hero in a 2-1 away win. The south Londoners took the lead in the ninth minute through a Joe Pigott volley but Cattermole equalised in the 66th minute from close range and then scored a stylish volley in the 83rd minute, having previously notched just three goals in 229 previous appearances for the club.

Peterborough surged to the top of the table and are the only team in the EFL with a 100% record, having crushed Plymouth, winning 5-1 after two goals each from Mark Godden and Jason Cummings and one from Siriki Dembélé. Plymouth’s consolation goal from Ryan Edwards came in injury time.



Portsmouth lost ground on Peterborough by being held to a 0-0 draw at Doncaster.



Zeli Ismail scored Walsall’s winner in a 2-1 victory at Rochdale and was subsequently sent off for two yellow cards. Sunderland, Portsmouth and Walsall are all level on 13 points.



Charlton’s goalless home game with Fleetwood was delayed in the first half by fans littering The Valley’s pitch with crisp packets as part of continuing protests against the owner, Roland Duchâtelet.



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Eliott Lee grabbed a 76th minute winner in Luton’s 3-2 defeat of Shrewsbury.



League Two

Lincoln climbed to the top of the table after beating Notts County 3-1, through goals from Lee Frecklington, Bruno Andrade and Harry Anderson, a result which kept County at rock bottom of the league with just a single point to their name.

Exeter’s Dean Moxey was sent off against MK Dons for handball, but could thank goalkeeper Christy Pym for saving Kieran Agard’s subsequent penalty. Pym had no such luck when MK were awarded a second penalty and Agard slotted home to win the game 1-0, leapfrog Exeter to second, and hand Paul Tidsale victory over the club he left last summer after 12 years in charge.



Morecambe suffered their fourth defeat in five when losing 2-0 at home to Oldham, after first-half goals from Chris O’Grady and Gevaro Nepomuceno.



Macclesfield’s winless return to the Football League continued after a 1-1 home draw with Mansfield, for whom Malvind Benning scored first before Harry Smith’s 63rd-minute header. The Silkmen stay second-bottom, a point ahead of Notts County.

