Aston Villa win for the first time since Boxing Day thanks to James Chester's first-half header.

The Villans had to withstand some pressure from the Rams but they held out despite Leandro Bacuna's late red card.

A huge relief for Steve Bruce and the Villa Park faithful.

Aston Villa down to 10 men for the final seconds after Leandro Bacuna is shown a red card for foul and abusive language.

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That's that at St James' Park.

The leaders had to fight back from 2-0 down to claim a point.

Aaron Wilbraham and David Cotterill put the visitors into a commanding lead.

Newcastle pulled one back through a Korey Smith own goal before Ciaran Clark levelled from a Matt Ritchie corner.

Brighton will go top if they beat Reading in the 17:30 GMT kick-off.

Late drama at Griffin Park.

Brentford must have beaten Rotherham with a last-minute penalty from Jota, who nets his second of the game.

Newcastle midfielder Jonjo Shelvey shoots wide.

About 60 seconds left to play.

Are Rotherham about to get their second away point of the season? Anthony Forde fires in low past Dan Bentley to equalise at Brentford.

Aston Villa sub Gary Gardner nearly has an immediate impact as he forces Derby goalkeeper Scott Carson to mis-hit his clearance to a Villa player.

However, Leandro Bacuna can't keep his effort on target.

They're into stoppage time at Villa Park.

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Bristol City would have taken this if you'd offered it to them at kick-off but, having led 2-0 at the break, they must be feeling deflated right now.

We're into four minutes of stoppage time.

Red cards are the order of the day at London Road, where Peterborough's 10 men are up against Rochdale's nine.

Posh's Jack Baldwin gets his marching orders for his second yellow card, and the hosts lead 2-1 with just under 10 minutes left.

League Two leaders Doncaster have been pegged back at home by Accrington - it's now 2-2 there.

Meanwhile, Portsmouth are boosting their automatic promotion hopes by taking the lead at Carlisle. Pompey will move three points behind the third-placed Cumbrians if it stays like that.

Crawley have gone 2-1 up at Wycombe while Hartlepool have pulled one back at Colchester, making it 2-1 in Essex.

Ten-man Newport have gone behind at Mansfield through Shaquile Coulthirst's penalty.

Barnsley scramble it off the line again.

This time it's midfielder Matty James stopping Michael Hefele from scoring his second.

Doomed Rotherham fall behind again at Brentford, Nico Yennaris netting the Bees' second from close range.

In League One second-placed Scunthrope have equalised at Bristol Rovers through a Tom Lockyer own goal.

Play-off chasing Bradford are back ahead at Port Vale through Alex Jones, who's made it 2-1.

Swindon are in control at Coventry, as Nicky Ajose's second of the game puts the Robins 3-0 up at the Ricoh Arena.

A penalty from James Jones has pulled one back for Crewe at home to Stevenage in League Two. The Alex trail 2-1 now, with both sides playing with 10 men.

Colchester are now 2-0 up at home to Hartlepool while Newport, bottom of the table, are down to 10 men as Jaanai Gordon picks up his second yellow of the day.

Huge save from Villa keeper Sam Johnstone from Darren Bent.

Villa less than 15 minutes away from a first win since Boxing Day.

Still 1-0 at Villa Park.

Steve Bruce brings on Jordan Amavi for Albert Adomah.

Newcastle still throwing everything at Bristol City and Bristol City still holding out.

Christian Atsu hammers a low cross in but it flies past everybody in the area.

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Billy Sharp has doubled the lead for League One leaders Sheffield United against Bolton with his 23rd goal of the season.

In-form Fleetwood have added a third against Northampton, while Conor McAleny has bagged a hat-trick for Oxford, who lead 4-0 at Chesterfield.

Lyle Taylor has given AFC WImbledon, who have only won one of their last 10 league games, the lead against Walsall.

Meanwhile, struggling Port Vale have levelled at home to Bradford, making it 1-1.

In League Two, play-off chasing Colchester have taken the lead against lowly Hartlepool through Kurtis Guthrie while Cambridge are 1-0 up at Barnet.

Aimen Belaid has got the Championship's bottom club Rotherham level at Brentford, while Neeskens Kebano has equalised for Fulham at Cardiff.

An entertaining game in south Wales.

And Preston have come from behind to lead QPR - Jordan Hugill the scorer.

Tom Ince tees up Will Hughes but the Rams midfielder fires wide.

Derby's play-off hopes would look incredibly slim if they were to lose here today.