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DIANGANA’S QUICK-FIRE DOUBLE
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Sunderland
comeback
LEAGUE ONE
THIS WEEKEND
finally a bit of good fortune for
SUNDERLAND manager Jack Ross.
The pressure is on after the club failed
to win promotion to the Championship
last season. after two draws to open this
campaign, there were a few murmurs, so
a 2-1 win over PORTSMOUTH was the
perfect remedy. Sunderland went
behind after Marcus Harness scored for
the visitors, but goals from Jordan Willis
and Chris Maguire capped an excellent
comeback.
LINCOLN’s stellar start to the season
continued as a 4-0 win over SOUTHEND
sent Danny Cowley’s side to the top of
the table. first-half goals from Jason
Shackell and Harry Toffolo were
followed by a Tyler Walker penalty before
Bruno andrade’s clinical strike in the
81st minute.
Only BLACKPOOL, who beat OXFORD 2-1,
have matched lincoln’s 100 per cent
record three games into the season.
The off-field issues at BOLTON continue
to affect Phil Parkinson’s side. ‘We’ve
been hung out to dry,’ said Parkinson.
Wanderers are in administration,
awaiting the completion of a takeover,
and had just three senior outfield
players fit for the trip to TRANMERE.
Parkinson has written to the football
league with concerns for the welfare of
his youth players. ‘asking young players
to go again is not right,’ he said. ‘We
were told we had to play the game.’
Bolton lost 5-0.
LEAGUE TWO
THIS WEEKEND
TOM FARMERY
CHAMPIONSHIP
THIS WEEKEND
AMITAI WINEHOUSE
Strike duo
do the trick
for Bradford
SHOUlD James Vaughan and Clayton
Donaldson stay fit then BRADFORD can
have high hopes of returning to league
One next season. Both scored before
Sean Scannell added a third in a 3-0 win
over OLDHAM, who are bottom after
losing their opening three matches.
MACCLESFIELD started life without Sol
Campbell just fine with a 2-1 victory
away at NORTHAMPTON. Theo
archibald’s 90th-minute strike gave
Danny Whitaker his first win as
caretaker manager. Whitaker said: ‘it’s
always difficult when a manager leaves
but you have to get on with the job and
i’m over the moon with the win.’
MANSFIELD enjoyed their first win of the
season to move up to eighth in the
table. Strikers Danny Rose and nicky
Maynard both scored as John
Dempster’s side won 2-0 away
at CARLISLE.
SWINDON boss Richie Wellens felt
referee Chris Sarginson cost his side all
three points by not awarding a penalty
when lloyd isgrove went down after
tangling with archie Collins in a 1-1
draw at EXETER. ‘We should’ve had a
penalty,’ Wellens said. ‘lloyd was about
to shoot and he got pushed in the back.’
FOREST GREEN moved behind both
Swindon and Exeter into third place
with a 1-0 victory against GRIMSBY,
while NEWPORT ended PLYMOUTH’s
unbeaten start to the campaign with a
1-0 win at Rodney Parade.
TOM FARMERY
LEE BOWYER began the
season talking about
survival, but he might have
to revise his expectations
after CHARLTON’s blistering
start to the campaign. They
were unlucky to only come
away with a 2-2 draw from
BARNSLEY, with Lyle Taylor
keeping up his run of a goal a
game courtesy of a penalty.
Grady Diangana made an
immediate impact on his
WEST BROM debut against
LUTON. The West Ham loanee
scored twice in the 2-1 win,
with just 206 seconds between
the goals.
Michael Dawson had a moment
to savour during NOTTINGHAM
FOREST’s 3-0 win against
BIRMINGHAM. He scored the
third goal, making it the first
time he had struck for his
boyhood club since December
2004 — a gap of 5,356 days.
Neil Harris’s MILLWALL are
maintaing the reputation of
The Den being a tough place to
visit. The 1-0 win over
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY
featured their ninth clean
sheet in 14 home games, and
was done with just 10 men.
Jonathan Woodgate’s tough
start as a manager continued
with MIDDLESBROUGH’s 1-0 loss
at BLACKBURN. Rovers boss
Tony Mowbray said: ‘Every
manager has to find a way to
win, or you won’t be a
manager for very long.’
debacle
we are not
getting too far
ahead of
ourselves.’
next it’s home
to Brentford on
Wednesday and
a reunion with
defender Pontus
Jansson, who
moved to West
london this
summer.
‘it will be good to
see Pontus again,’
said Harrison. ‘He
had a great impact
last year.’
STOKE 2
DERBY 2
JANINE SELF
at the bet365 Stadium
HOGAN’S JOY AT HALIFAX REUNION
SCOTT HOGAN cleaned toilets,
team-mate Lee Gregory was
an electrician, and both
dreamed of the day they
would make it as professional
footballers.
Wind forward a few years
from those Halifax days and
they have linked up again with
a remit to shoot Stoke into the
Premier League.
For Hogan, it is a chance to put
the record straight after a
£12million move to Aston
Villa in 2017 stalled his
career. The on-loan striker,
who scored his first goal for
the Potters, said: ‘I’m maybe
guilty of losing a bit of hunger
when I got my move to Villa.
I have to use it as a learning
curve to kick on again.’
For Hogan to succeed he
needs to stay in tandem with
30-year-old former Millwall
forward Gregory.
‘We’ve both worked our way
up the hard way and no one
would have thought we would
get here to the same club,’
Hogan, 27, added. ‘I’m sure
Halifax Town fans wouldn’t
have thought that.
‘We’ve both come from
scraping the barrel and
working. I had all sorts of jobs:
cleaning toilets, factory
working, flipping tyres on to
belts. Gregs was an
electrician.’
It was Gregory who teed up
Hogan after Liam Lindsay
cancelled out Martyn
Waghorn’s opener.
Waghorn then scored a
penalty to deny Stoke their
first win of the season and
missed a glorious chance for
his hat-trick. ‘I over-thought
it,’ said the Derby striker.
‘I need to be more ruthless
and clinical.’
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