Championship Roundup: Fast-rising Hull Turn Up Heat On Portsmouth

Joe Gelhardt scored his 5th extremity successful six games arsenic in-form Hull defeated struggling Portsmouth 3-2.

The Leeds indebtedness signing showed ultimate calmness to dink nan shot complete goalkeeper Josef Bursik aft he latched connected to Charlie Hughes’s agelong shot successful nan 77th infinitesimal to settee nan match.

Hull person now mislaid conscionable erstwhile successful 8 games, but looked up against it aft Terry Devlin opened nan scoring during a breathless first half. Enis Destan cancelled retired Devlin’s deflected extremity and Kyle Joseph put Hull ahead, but Portsmouth restored parity erstwhile Devlin headed successful Josh Murphy’s superb transverse conscionable earlier nan break.

An atrocious correction from goalkeeper Daniel Iversen was costly for Preston astatine Millwall arsenic they came distant from nan Den pinch a 1-1 draw.

In a conflict betwixt 2 teams who began Saturday successful nan Championship’s apical six, Preston scored first erstwhile Michael Smith pounced connected a correction by Lions’ Camiel Neghli successful nan 15th minute. Having been presented pinch nan opening goal, Preston returned nan favour successful nan 36th infinitesimal erstwhile Iversen kicked caller aerial from Liam Lindsay’s propulsion backmost to him, giving Ivanovic an unfastened nett to equalise into.

Derby’s Joe Ward celebrates his side’s 5th successive win. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

John Eustace’s first return to Blackburn saw his Derby clasp connected to gain a 2-1 triumph astatine Ewood Park.

In-form Carlton Morris deftly nodded nan Rams into a 19th-minute lead – his sixth successful 4 games – earlier Patrick Agyemang powered successful a header of his ain connected nan changeable of half-time. Yuki Ohashi’s 66th-minute punishment reduced nan arrears and Derby had to past an onslaught of agelong throws and corners but held patient to grounds their 5th successive win, moving to nan fringes of nan playoffs.

On Friday, Scott Twine’s free-kick earned Bristol City a 1-1 tie astatine Watford. Marc Bola’s first Watford extremity put nan hosts up aft six minutes but Twine ensured injury-hit City avoided losing for a 3rd clip successful six days by denying Watford a 5th consecutive location win.
Watford took nan lead successful nan sixth minute. Imran Louza was nan designer pinch a 70-yard walk from his ain half that enabled Bola to sprint successful down nan City defence, return a good first touch, past slot calmly past Radek Vitek. City drew level successful nan 29th infinitesimal aft Jeremy Petris brought Sinclair Armstrong down connected nan separator of nan container and Twine hammered nan free-kick past nan wall to hit Selvik astatine his adjacent post.

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