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Half-time scores
Blackburn 1-1 Bristol City
Huddersfield 0-1 Wigan
Hull 0-1 Charlton
Luton 0-0 Preston
QPR 0-1 Barnsley
Reading 1-0 Stoke
Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Nottingham Forest
West Brom 0-0 Birmingham
Harlee Dean chucks in three long-throw in quick succession. The third results in Johnstone coming out to provide the worst punch I’ve seen for a long time, diverting it into the danger zone but a defender clears.
Neither goalkeeper at The Hawthorns has been required to make a save so far. Not a classic of the genre.
The referee has fallen over at The Hawthorns! He seemed to trip himself up when trying to keep up with play.
A couple of goals at Ewood Park in quick succession, as Paterson gave Bristol City the lead, before Corry Evans equalised three minutes later.
Jamie Paterson of Bristol City (second left) heads in the opening goal. Photograph: Robbie Stephenson/JMPShutterstock
Corry Evans (second left) is congratulated by his team mates after getting Blackburn Rovers back on level terms. Photograph: Paul Currie/BPI/Shutterstock
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Pereira is permanently roaming for West Brom, wanting to get on the ball in full knowledge that he is the best player on the pitch.
GOAL! Huddersfield 0-1 Wigan (Lowe, 26)
Jamal Lowe gets things going for Wigan, who would go above the Terriers if they win today, with a close range strike.
Jamal Lowe (right) of Wigan Athletic opens the scoring. Photograph: Dean Williams/News Images/Shutterstock
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Hegazi pulls down Hogan just outside the box and the referee does nothing, much to the striker’s chagrin.
Pereira and Gardner catch each other but it is all quite innocent even if they both stay down. Ref right to give nothing.
DRINKS BREAKS!
Some lovely football from Bellingham allows him to create space on the edge of the box, then lay it off to Hogan who earns a corner. I have not seen much of Bellingham live, so this is pretty exciting and he looks pretty ruddy good so far.
GOAL! Hull 0-1 Charlton (Pearce, 18)
A big goal at the bottom as Pearce bundles the ball home from a corner against relegation rivals Hull.
Charlton Athletic’s Jason Pearce bravely sticks his head out and scores the first goal. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
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Robert Lewandowski has already netted twice today for Bayern, taking his season’s total to 33. Not a bad effort.
Robert Lewandowski (left) heads in the of Bayern Munich’s second, the first of his two goals so far today. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/EPA
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A lot of clubs have used their lower tiers to promote supporters groups and the like. West Brom have just stuck massive adverts over the seats for Marc Darcy Menswear and some underwhelming whiskey.
GOAL! QPR 0-1 Barnsley (Simoes, 7)
The young forward gives Barnsley a cracking start.
Elliot Simoes of Barnsley opens the scoring. Photograph: Simon Dael/BPI//Shutterstock
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West Brom look confident and bright here, already getting a decent amount of possession in the opposition half. Birmingham might not be able to cope here.
Birmingham have nothing really to play for, so have released all their soon-to-be out-of-contract players and have seven academy players on the bench. Questions the whole integrity of the restart.
GOAL! RB Leipzig 0-1 Dortmund (Haaland, 30)
Gio Reyna has just set up Erling Haaland to give Dortmund the lead. Great combination work from the two sons for former Man City players.
Dortmund’s Erling Braut Haaland shoots past Leipzig’s goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi to score the opening goal. Photograph: Ronny Hartmann/AFP/Getty Images
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Full-time: Millwall 2-3 Derby
All over at the Den. Derby complete a fine win, that keeps them in the very crowded mix for the play-offs, and draws them level on points with Millwall
Goal! Millwall 2-3 Derby (Mahoney, 90)
I say that but Millwall have got one back, deep into injury time from Connor Mahoney.
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Goal! Millwall 1-3 Derby (Sibley, 90)
And Sibley has a hat-trick, and an impressive Derby win is sealed.
A bit of team news for the big 3pm games:
West Brom v Birmingham:
West Brom: Johnstone, Furlong, Ajayi, Hegazi, Gibbs, Sawyers, Livermore, Phillips, Matheus Pereira, Robinson, Robson-Kanu.
Subs: Bartley, Krovinovic, Zohore, Austin, Harper, Edwards, Bond, O’Shea, Diangana.
Birmingham: Camp, Harding, Clarke-Salter, Dean, Colin, Crowley, Kieftenbeld, Gary Gardner, Bellingham, Jutkiewicz, Hogan. Subs: Bela, Trueman, Boyd-Munce, Burke, Stirk, Concannon, Bajrami, Gordon, Reid.
Referee: Darren Bond (Lancashire)
Hull v Charlton
Hull: Long, Pennington, MacDonald, De Wijs, Elder, Batty, Kane, Bowler, Toral, Wilks, Eaves. Subs: Tafazolli, Burke, Stewart, Ingram, Honeyman, Magennis, Lewis-Potter, Samuelsen, Scott.
Charlton: Phillips, Matthews, Lockyer, Pearce, Oshilaja, McGeady, Pratley, Cullen, Morgan, Bonne, Hemed. Subs:Purrington, Jonathan Williams, Aneke, Amos, Sarr, Field, Oztumer, Davison, Doughty.
Referee: Darren England (South Yorkshire)
Luton v Preston North End
Luton: Sluga, Cranie, Carter-Vickers, Pearson, Potts, Rea, Mpanzu, Tunnicliffe, Brown, Cornick, Collins. Subs: Bradley, McManaman, Hylton, Lee, Shinnie, Moncur, Bree, Butterfield, Shea.
Preston North End: Rudd, Pearson, Bauer, Davies, Hughes, Browne, Gallagher, Barkhuizen, Johnson, Sinclair, Maguire. Subs: Fisher, Harrop, Storey, Ledson, Stockley, Ripley, Nugent, Bodin, Potts.
Referee: John Brooks (Leicestershire)
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GOAL! Millwall 1-2 Derby (Sibley, 70)
The young midfielder strikes again.
Derby County’s Louie Sibley (left) is congratulated by team mate Max Bird after scoring his second goal. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
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Full-time!
Brentford struck twice late on to secure an impressive victory at Fulham. Meanwhile, at the Riverside, Swansea were out of sight by half-time to put Middlesbrough in further trouble at the bottom.
Scores:
Fulham 0-2 Brentford
Middlesbrough 0-3 Swansea
GOAL! Fulham 0-2 Brentford (Marcondes, 90+1)
The visitors break from a Fulham corner and the ball makes its way to Marcondes, who cuts back onto his left foot and fires home frmo 12 yards.
Emiliano Marcondes fires home Brentford’s second goal. Photograph: Javier García/BPI/Shutterstock
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GOAL! Fulham 0-1 Brentford (Benrahma, 88)
Marcondes gets in down the right and fizzes a cross to the back post where Benrahma is lurking and stabs it in.
Saïd Benrahma of Brentford scores the opening goa. Photograph: Javier García/BPI/Shutterstock
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Benrahma curls a free-kick well wide rom 25 yards out. This game is fizzling out.
Middlesbrough are yet to concede in the second half, which is good news for them.
Another headed chance for Mitrovic but once again the final product lacks power and calmly ends up in Raya’s hands.
Reed departs. He had an excellent game for Fulham, providing lots of energy in midfield. No wonder he has tired himself out.
There has been plenty of good football at Craven Cottage but the final ball has repeatedly let the teams down. I guess this is the difference between the Premier League and Championship.
Brentford’s Baptiste gets the better of Odoi on the left but his pull back from the byline is pounced upon by Rodak.
Some very good news from Hull where Angus McDonald starts.
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🐯 Here’s how the Tigers will line up to face @CAFCofficial this afternoon…
🔶 Angus MacDonald makes his first start for Hull City since August 2018 following a fight with bowel cancer.
⬛️ James Scott features on the bench.#hcafc | #theTigers pic.twitter.com/nsRuR9UNuz
Cavaleiro looks like he is coming on for Fulham, which is exciting news for anyone hoping to see a goal.
DRINKS BREAK AT CRAVEN COTTAGE!
WHAT A SAVE! Bryan swings in a cracking cross, which Mitrovic steers towards the net with his head but Raya reacts superbly to repel it.
Brentford keeper David Raya denies Aleksander Mitrovic of Fulham. Photograph: Javier García/BPI/Shutterstock
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Fulham know their market; ads for Charles Tyrwhitt are whizzing round the hoardings.
Odoi tries to take a throw-in but messes it up and launches it straight up in the air, followed by a shout of “Oh shit!”. Lovely stuff.
We are only nine minutes away from getting the Hull team news. Will they be able to field five subs?
DISALLOWED GOAL! Mitrovic stands roughly two yards offside before receiving a through ball, which he slots home. Inexplicably he seems to think he was onside and moans at the assistant. There was no need for him to be offside. What a waste.
Nifty work from Knockaert allows him to play in Decordova-Reid who has the chance to shoot but instead tries to find Mitrovic in the centre, allowing Dalsgaard to intercept and clear.
Watching this game, I definitely think Brentford would be the more fun side to have in the Premier League. They could be the new Norwich.
JR offers: “As a West Brom fan I’ll take anything but a Cottagers win I guess. Big game between the Baggies and the Bees next Friday.
“Also, I’ve got one eye on the Watford v Leicester game which reminded me (not that I really needed reminding) what a cheating little diver Knockaert is.
“That insane playoff finish years back where he dived to win a penalty then then had his penalty and rebound saved then Watford immediately scored to win the semifinal was one of the more satisfying examples of instant justice I can recall.
“(To be clear, I don’t call Knockaert a cheating little diver just for that incident. I’ve seen him at it on multiple occasions).”
Derby are wearing their light blue away at Millwall rather than white against a team in navy. An odd decision.
GOAL! Millwall 1-1 Derby (Sibley, 26)
All level in the capital as Sibley finds the net from close range.
Louie Sibley of Derby County takes on the Millwall defence … Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images
Before slotting the ball home to get the visitors back on level terms. Photograph: Andrew Redington/Getty Images
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Victor emails in: “Very few things surprise me anymore. However, when I saw today’s Middlesbrough team I was genuinely open mouthed. Only shock is we are only three down at half time. Utterly and completely unacceptable.”
I would like to say things can only get better but I am suspicious they could get a lot worse for Boro.
Clinton Morrison says Mitrovic should have scored his header in the first half due to the “the form he has been in”. He’s not played for three months, Clinton.
Half-time: Fulham 0-0 Brentford
Goalless in the west London derby. Fulham have hit the woodwork but the game is yet to hit the heights.
