Championship Roundup: Whittaker Gives Boro Win At Sorry Sheffield Wednesday

Morgan Whittaker’s early extremity astatine a near-empty Hillsborough gave Middlesbrough a 1-0 triumph astatine bottommost nine Sheffield Wednesday and lifted them to wrong a constituent of Championship leaders Coventry.

Whittaker struck for nan 2nd crippled moving successful nan sixth infinitesimal and that proved capable for Rob Edwards’ side, who should person won by a wider separator and had what looked a definite punishment turned down.

Wednesday stay winless successful six location convention games this play aft slipping to their 3rd consecutive defeat.

There was a minute’s applause earlier kick-off for erstwhile Owls proprietor Milan Mandaric, who died this period aged 87. Mandaric sold nan nine successful 2015 aft 5 years astatine nan helm to existent proprietor Dejphon Chansiri, whose own tenure has descended into chaos.

Owls fans stepped up their protestation against nan Thai businessman – amid reports of a pending winding-up bid for an unpaid taxation measure – by boycotting nan crippled successful their thousands.

Rumarn Burrell scored for nan 2nd clip successful 5 days arsenic QPR held 10-man Swansea astatine bay to triumph 1-0 and climb to eighth. Burrell – who was a scorer successful his team’s 2-1 location conclusion by Millwall connected Saturday – grabbed nan only extremity of nan crippled successful nan 18th minute.

QPR’s Rumarn Burrell (second right) makes it 1-0 against Swansea. Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock

Swansea’s teenage Brighton loanee Malick Yalcouyé was shown a consecutive reddish paper successful nan 34th infinitesimal aft he appeared to conflict heads pinch QPR defender Steve Cook.

Yet Swans substitute Zan Vipotnik mightiness person earned nan 10 men a constituent successful added clip but grounded to move successful a transverse from 2 yards out. It is conscionable 1 conclusion successful 8 games for QPR, but Swansea – who driblet to 16th successful nan array – person not won astatine location since August.

Watford returned to winning ways pinch a 2-1 comeback triumph complete West Brom successful nan first location crippled of Javi Gracia’s 2nd spell arsenic Hornets manager.

Isaac Price’s good onslaught aft 34 minutes put nan visitors up but Imran Louza cancelled that retired - 4 minutes later - to group nan shape for Republic of Ireland world Rocco Vata, 20, to seal triumph aft nan break.

The visitors would person gone 3rd pinch a triumph but could not conjure up an equaliser arsenic they dropped down to 10th and Watford moved up to 12th. Gracia, whose first stint ended successful September 2019, waved to applauding location fans connected being re-introduced earlier kick-off.

Nathan Broadhead scored nan only extremity of nan crippled arsenic 10-man Wrexham recorded a 1-0 triumph against Oxford for their first location convention triumph since gaining promotion.

But Phil Parkinson’s broadside made dense upwind of nan agelong overdue success, playing pinch a man down aft Callum Doyle’s 67th infinitesimal sending-off. Doyle received his marching orders for a crude situation connected Siriki Dembélé but Wrexham held connected to cod 3 points astatine nan Racecourse astatine nan sixth clip of asking.