Roundup of the latest Championship action as Leicester remain top of the table.
Second half goals from Abdul Fatawu and Kelechi Iheanacho saw Leicester come from behind to win 3-1 at Swansea, after Jannik Vestergaard had cancelled out Matt Grimes’ opening goal.
Second-placed Ipswich weren’t in action after their trip to second-bottom Rotherham was postponed due to Storm Babet.
Leeds climbed to third after Crysencio Summerville’s second-half brace ensured a comeback 3-2 win at Norwich, having been 2-0 down at half-time after Shane Duffy and Gabriel Sara netted for the Canaries.
Preston sit fourth after they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by managerless Millwall, as the Lions’ Zian Flemming cancelled out Mads Frokjaer’s third minute goal.
Ryan Fraser’s injury-time strike lifted Southampton into fifth with a 2-1 win at Hull despite Will Smallbone’s opening goal having been cancelled out by Liam Delap’s equaliser.
Sunderland round out the top six despite losing 2-1 at Stoke as Luke McNally’s header proved the difference, after Jack Clarke had cancelled out Ryan Mmaee’s early goal.
Down in the relegation zone, Sheffield Wednesday remain rock bottom after Yaser Asprilla netted a 82nd minute winner for Watford at Vicarage Road.
QPR again sit third bottom following a 2-1 loss at Huddersfield as Jack Rudoni set up Kian Harratt then scored himself for the Terriers, despite Jake Clarke-Salter netting a 42nd minute consolatory goal for the visitors.
Plymouth sit four points above the drop after they held West Bromwich Albion to a goalless draw at The Hawthorns.
Elsewhere, Wayne Rooney’s bow as Birmingham manager ended in a 1-0 defeat at Michael Carrick’s Middlesbrough as Morgan Rogers netted a 89th minute winner, in a game marred for both managers and ex Manchester United players by the news of Sir Bobby Charlton’s death.
Rob Dickie’s 45th minute header lifted Bristol City up to eighth with a 1-0 home win over Coventry.
Finally, Joe Rankin-Costello’s 53rd minute winner saw Blackburn scrape past Cardiff at Ewood Park.
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