Jamille Matt’s first league goal of the season gave Walsall a 1-0 win over terrible travellers Tranmere.Rovers’ winless away run stretched to 17 games as Nigel Adkins suffered a first defeat since taking permanent charge.An error from Walsall’s David Okagbue presented Tranmere with the game’s first chance but Kristian Dennis’ shot was foiled by Saddlers keeper Jackson

Manchester City dropped points once again as a stoppage-time Michael Olise penalty saw the Premier League champions held 2-2 by Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium.City had dominated possession and appeared in complete control after Jack Grealish put them ahead in the 24th minute and Rico Lewis added a 54th-minute finish.But Palace fought back to reduce the deficit via Jean-Philippe Mateta with j

Portsmouth moved seven points clear at the top of Sky Bet League One after a 3-0 win over Shrewsbury.Two goals from Abu Kamara and another from Marlon Pack maintained the momentum for John Mousinho’s men.Just before the half-hour mark, Paddy Lane cut the ball back to Kusini Yengi in the heart of the box, but the Pompey forward blasted it over the bar.The visitors took the lead on the stroke

Peterborough moved into the League One automatic-promotion places with a 1-0 win at Fleetwood.Archie Collins netted the winner in the 42nd minute to lift Posh up to second, one point above Oxford.The visitors could have been ahead in the second minute when Ricky-Jade Jones fired over from close range while Kwame Poku stung the palms of Jay Lynch in the Fleetwood goal moments later.Posh finally got

Neil Harris secured his first victory as Cambridge boss with a 2-1 victory over Blackpool.The visitors took the lead after 25 minutes through Jordan Rhodes, who was left unmarked to head home Karamoko Demeble’s free-kick.Cambridge hit back seven minutes later when a fine James Brophy delivery found Gassan Ahadme. He was denied by Dan Grimshaw, but Elias Kachunga scrambled the ball home.Jack

Goals from Jamie Walker and Andy Cook earned Bradford a comfortable 2-0 win away to Gillingham that gave Bantams manager Graham Alexander his fifth victory in a row.The home side thought they had taken the lead from a set-piece on 15 minutes when Macauley Bonne flicked Connor Mahoney’s near-post corner towards goal, only for Harry Lewis to palm the effort away.Bradford took the lead in the 3

Middlesbrough ended a run of three consecutive Sky Bet Championship defeats with a 2-1 victory at Swansea achieved in strange fashion.Substitute Samuel Silvera struck the 77th-minute winner, whipping home a close-range free-kick after Swansea goalkeeper Carl Rushworth had been penalised for picking up Harry Darling’s back pass.Middlesbrough led at the interval through Sam Greenwood’s c

Two goals from Ruben Rodrigues and one from Marcus McGuane gave Des Buckingham his first league win as Oxford boss in a 3-0 triumph against managerless Burton.The Portuguese forward struck in the 25th minute, cutting in from the right to shoot past Max Crocombe following Cameron Brannagan’s cross-field pass.Rodrigues made it two seven minutes from time, firing high into the net from 15 yards

Celtic fans turned their wrath on the board as Hearts’ 2-0 win at Parkhead consigned the Hoops to back-to-back league defeats for the first time in a decade.First-half goals from Lawrence Shankland and Stephen Kingsley earned Hearts their first league win at Celtic Park since 2007.Shankland’s free header and Kingsley’s 25-yard free-kick saw Hearts end a 14-match losing run at Cel

Hull moved back into the Sky Bet Championship play-off places with a convincing 3-0 victory at home to Cardiff.Aaron Connolly’s 32nd-minute tap-in – his sixth goal of the season – sent the hosts on their way towards an utterly deserved victory.Scott Twine’s lovely free-kick in the second half essentially put the match to bed, so poor were Cardiff from the outset.Ozan Tufan&