West Ham United

West Ham goal scorer Mark Noble: “Seven points in a week is massive for us. Two clean sheets at home is fantastic. They were not the best performances but these are the games that you have to win. 

"Hull and Burnley are the most honest, hard working teams in the league and we competed and kept a clean sheet

“In the position we are in winning is all that matters. Results breed confidence and hopefully that is starting to happen.

“I haven’t seen the penalty so I don’t know whether it was or wasn’t but who cares?

“We have to win games and put the pressure on the other clubs. We have nine days now until our next game. Hopefully we can go away to Swansea and get more points.

“I would have snapped your hands off for seven points this week. We can look forward now.”

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Swansea City

Swansea midfielder Leroy Fer: "We need to stick together and work on it. We played good football during the first 15 or 20 minutes and then it went against us.

"We have to play our football. It's what we're good at."

Two goals from Paddy Madden helped League One leaders Scunthorpe to a 3-0 win over Millwall, while Bolton missed the chance to go second as they slipped to a surprise 1-0 loss at Chesterfield.

A Matty Lund hat-trick gave Rochdale a 3-2 win at Northampton and Bury suffered their 12th successive league defeat, losing 3-2 at home to Oxford United.

Four second-half goals gave AFC Wimbledon a 4-0 win over Port Vale.

Sunderland

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Sunderland captain Jermain Defoe: "It's a massive win for us. The manager said 'there's no point in kidding you, it's massive'. We've had loads of games in a short space of time so credit to the medical team. We've got to keep going now, keep our foot on the gas, as it's so tough down there."

League leaders Newcastle recorded their 16th league win of the season as they beat Burton 2-1 in the first ever meeting between the sides.

Elsewhere, there was late drama throughout the division. A 92nd-minute winner from George Evans gave Reading a 3-2 win at Blackburn, Kyle Bartley scored late on as Leeds won 1-0 against Brentford, Ipswich fought back from 2-1 down to beat Wigan 3-2 with David McGoldrick scoring the winner late on.

Daniel Johnson grabbed a dramatic winner for Preston at Bristol City, while Steven Fletcher's 94th-minute penalty won it for Sheffield Wednesday in the South Yorkshire derby against Rotherham.

The game of the day was at the Cardiff City Stadium. Barnsley were 3-1 ahead, Cardiff pulled it back to 3-3, but Ryan Williams scored in the 95th minute to win it for Barnsley. Elsewhere, Wolves won 2-0 at Nottingham Forest and Fulham and Derby drew 2-2.

Middlesbrough

Boro goalscorer Marten de Roon: "It was a bit of a six-point game. It was our third game in the week - and we had a tough one of Wednesday - but we got the goals today.

"Alvaro Negredo is incredibly important for us."

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Sunderland are within touching distance of safety now.

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Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford breaths a huge sigh of relief as he salutes the fans on his way off the pitch. That's his side's second clean sheet of the season. 

The Black Cats are up to 18th in the table, one point from safety. 

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West Ham have won back-to-back at home with two clean sheets two - and that's seven points from nine too.

Hull left-back Andrew Robertson leaves the field with his head in his hands. He was one of three Hull players to hit the post this afternoon. 

If you don't take your chances, you don't score, and if you can't score you go down. Right?

Huge for Sunderland. Huge. 

James Morrison misses out for West Brom in their only change following a 3-1 win over Swansea last time out.

Chris Brunt pushes up the field from left-back.

West Brom XI: Foster, Dawson, McAuley, Olsson, Nyom, Yacob, Fletcher, Brunt, Chadli, Phillips, Rondon   

Manchester United also make three changes after beating Crystal Palace.

Antonio Valencia, Matteo Darmian and Jesse Lingard all come in, while Eric Bailly, Daley Blind and Juan Mata miss out.

Man Utd XI: De Gea, Valencia, Jones, Rojo, Darmian, Herrera, Carrick, Pogba, Lingard, Ibrahimovic, Rooney.

Stoke City, how did you not win?

Hull City, how did you lose?!

Lukasz Fabianski comes rushing out to collect a looping ball and he clatters with his own player, Alfie Mawson, and Adam Forshaw is ready to pounce.

The Boro man tries to weave a goal out of it but Leroy Fer clears the danger.

A one-handed wonder from Victor Valdes as he denies Fernando Llorente. 

Swansea are really pushing for a goal now, but it's too little too late. 

Championship: Bristol City had equalised at home Preston through Aaron Wilbraham's goal, but Daniel Johnson has restored the visitors' lead to make it 1-2.

Leeds also look to have won it late on through Kyle Bartley's goal in their home match with Brentford.

More drama at the DW Stadium as a header from substitute David McGoldrick has put Ipswich 3-2 ahead at Wigan, while Cardiff have fought back from 3-1 down to make it 3-3 at home against Barnsley.

Pat Nevin
Ex-Chelsea winger on BBC Radio 5 live

Absolutely deserve it. They've battered Stoke in this half. 

If you look at the entirety of the game, Leicester were the better team before they had a man sent off.