Summary

  • Middlesbrough's unbeaten start ends with defeat at Portsmouth

  • Coventry go top with 5-0 win at crisis club Sheff Wed

  • Owls fan protests cause five-minute interruption at Hillsborough

  • Leicester win at Swansea, Millwall brush WBA aside, Southampton held at Derby

  • QPR and Watford both come from behind to win

  • Bottom side Sheff U miss late penalty in loss at Hull

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Alex Hoad, Dan George, Gideon Brooks & Ben Hutchinson

  1. 'We need a spark'

    Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United

    Carl Asaba
    Former Sheffield United striker on BBC Radio Sheffield

    The home team are really starting to take control.

    We need an out-ball to get us going, we need a spark.

  2. Blackburn 0-1 Stoke

    Stoke have a chance to double their lead but fail to capitalise.

    Sorba Thomas runs clean in behind and has a really good option to square it to a teammate who is in space across from him.

    But before he can make the pass, Ryan Alebiosu makes a tremendous sliding tackle to stop the attack.

  3. SUBSTITUTIONS

    Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    Better from the Owls going forward as Jamal Lowe marauds into the box and manages to get in a low cross, but it won't drop to a blue and white shirt.

    Luke Woolfenden is coming on for the visitors, along with Ellis Simms, with Ephron Mason-Clark and Liam Kitching making way. Frank Lampard shuffling his pack after a gruelling three games in seven days?

    Liam Kitching of Coventry City and Luke Woolfenden of Coventry CityRex Features

  4. Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    Haji Wright puts just too much mustard on his defence-splitting pass for Ephron Mason-Clarke, sending him slightly wide in the box and allowing Liam Palmer to get back and pinch possession as the City man tried to cut back onto his right foot.

    Owls at sixes and sevens at the back at times, though, and you wouldn't bet against City getting one of those numbers here this afternoon, if we're honest. They might have had them already.

  5. 'Coventry aren't as convincing at the back'

    Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    Steve Ogrizovic
    Ex-Coventry City goalkeeper on BBC CWR

    Coventry are convincingly in front but every time Sheffield Wednesday come forward they look like scoring.

    Coventry aren't as convincing at the back, I won't be surprised if Wednesday go and score in the game.

  6. Close!

    Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United

    Ben Mee gifts Oli McBurnie a clearcut chance with a loose pass midway through the Sheffield United half and he needs no further invitation to race through and engineers space to fire a shot.

    Fortunately for the backtracking Mee, Michael Cooper comes to the rescue with a good low block but that was a huge let-off for the Blades.

    Hull City's Oliver McBurniePA Media

  7. CLOSE!

    Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    City defender Bobby Thomas might have scored three goals on another day.

    His goalbound headers led to the first and third goals and he's met a bullet of a long throw from Milan van Ewijk with his noggin again here, looping a header a foot over the crossbar with Ethan Horvath scrambling back to try to cover it.

  8. goal

    GOAL: Blackburn 0-1 Stoke

    Million Manhoef (49 mins)

    Million Manhoef of Stoke City celebrates with teammates after scoringGetty Images

    Million Manhoef muscles his way past a defender and then his shot is deflected before landing in the back of the net.

    Blackburn had started the half well but it is the visitors who take the lead.

  9. Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    No changes at the break, but you'd expect ref Adam Herczeg and his officials copped an earful in the tunnel.

    That third goal was the best advert for VAR in the Championship you could ask for, although... do we really want that?

    Thumbs up for yes, down for no... let us know!

  10. 'We've started well'

    Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United

    Peter Swan
    Former Hull City player on BBC Radio Humberside

    Ehije Ukaki of Sheffield United (left) and Amir Hadziahmetovic of Hull CityRex Features

    We've started well, we look solid at the start of this half.

    Only four minutes in but you get that feeling.

  11. KICK-OFF

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    We're back under way at the MKM Stadium and Ewood Park with Hillsborough set to follow in the next few minutes too.

    A huge 45 minutes for a lot of teams, and managers, coming up...

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    This Coventry team look good, a really positive attitude. Simple tactic from Lampard, we will just keep attacking and outscore you!

    Matt

  13. YELLOW CARD

    Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United

    Callum O'Hare receives a caution just 49 seconds into the second half after pulling down Joe Gelhardt.

  14. Sky Blues on top

    HT: Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    Championship table

    Drink it in Sky Blues fans, top of the pile, for at least a few hours.

    That frightening goal difference might also swell a little more in the second half too, if things keep going as they have been at Hillsborough.

    The ONLY slight consolation for Wednesday is that their fierce rivals United, the only side below them, are also behind at the break.

    Hull are on course for the top-half, as things stand, while Blackburn are out of the bottom three in the live table, with Oxford United below the dotted line, for now...

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    Obviously isn’t going to impact the result, but the standards of referees and linesmen in the Championship have never been lower. Absolute embarrassment from the linesman for Coventry’s third goal.

    Graham Clapp, Bristol

  16. 'The game's there to be won'

    HT: Hull City 1-0 Sheffield United

    Carl Asaba
    Former Sheffield United striker on BBC Radio Sheffield

    It's not the worst 45 minutes but a simple goal, the manager will not be happy about it.

    He's got to do something about the midfield, the game's there to be won.

    Hull aren't the greatest, apart from their one ball, they've not caused us many issues.

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    Just the FOUR Coventry players offside for that third goal.

    Joe Gibney, London

  18. HALF-TIME

    Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    Coventry City's Brandon Thomas-Asante (centre) celebrates scoringPA Media

    As plucky as they have been of late, it's been a pretty dark day for Sheffield Wednesday so far.

    Brandon Thomas-Asante poked home Bobby Thomas' goalbound header from inches out after just three minutes before a five-minute delay when fans entered the field to protest against owner Dejphon Chansiri after 10 minutes.

    When play resumed, Coventry looked threatening every time they came forward. Thomas-Asante fired a second, on 33 minutes, a low shot into the corner from just inside the area before Haji Wright poked home Thomas' header from inches out, despite having been in an offside position, in the final seconds of the time added on for the earlier protest.

    Owls have defended doggedly and Yan Valery and Liam Palmer have sent pot-shots over at the other end, but this looks likely to be another healthy win for Coventry who will go top in an hour or so, while Wednesday remain deep in trouble in the bottom two.

  19. 'An incredible scoring rate'

    Sheff Wed 0-3 Coventry

    Steve Ogrizovic
    Ex-Coventry City goalkeeper on BBC CWR

    It's got to count, it's definitely got to count.

    Sheffield Wednesday didn't defend it, it's that simple, a simple side foot finish, an incredible scoring rate so far.

  20. HALF-TIME

    Blackburn 0-0 Stoke

    The referee blows for the end of the first half.

    The first 45 started and ends with big chances for Stoke to take the lead but we head into the break with the deadlock yet to be broken.

    Blackburn had chances of their own, and after struggling to get going early on they ended the half in stronger fashion.

    A big second half to come!