Roundup of latest Sky Bet Championship action as Middlesbrough continued their unbeaten start to the league campaign.
Kaly Sene’s comeback strike rescued a 1-1 draw for league leaders, Middlesbrough away to Southampton after Adam Armstrong put the Saints in front.
Bright Osayi-Samuel’s own-goal either side of goals from Brandon Thomas Asante and Victor Torp fired Coventry up to second with a 3-0 home win over ten-men Birmingham City, as Jack Robin saw red for two first-half bookings.
Stoke consequently slipped to third after Sorba Thomas’ 48th-minute finish cancelled out Jovan Makama’s first-half opener for Norwich, as the Potters and Canaries played out a 1-1 draw at BET365 Stadium.
Bristol City sit fourth following a goalless draw at sixth-placed Preston.
Nat Phillips’ own-goal rescued fifth-placed Leicester a 1-1 draw at West Brom after Samuel Iling-Junior’s solo goal had fired the Baggies into a 18th-minute lead.
Charlton sit one point outside of the play-off spots in seventh after a ruthless 3-0 victory at home to Blackburn as Macaulay Gillesphey opened the scoring, before Sonny Carey’s 25-yard strike and James Bree’s injury-time goal sealed the comfortable win.
Down in the relegation zone, Sheffield United remain rock bottom but claimed their first victory of the campaign in a 1-0 win at Oxford United through Callum O’Hare’s 65th-minute finish.
Sheffield Wednesday remain second bottom following a 1-1 draw at home to QPR, having led through Dominic Iorfa’s header before Nicolas Madsen equalised from the penalty spot following Bailey Cadamarteri’s handball of Richard Kone’s header.
Oxford Utd slipped to third bottom after Derby moved out of the bottom three after Ben Brereton cancelled out Lewis O’Brien’s header in a 1-1 draw at Wrexham.
Elsewhere, second-half goals from Imran Louza and Vivaldo Semedo saw Watford complete a 2-1 comeback at home to Hull, after Oli McBurnie fired the Tigers into a 25th-minute lead.
First-half goals from Jaden Philogene and George Hirst fired Ipswich to a 2-1 home win over Portsmouth, despite Marlon Pack’s 92nd-minute consolatory effort.
Josh Coburn’s header in the fourth-minute of first-half injury-time salvaged Millwall a 1-1 draw at Swansea after Zan Vipotnik put the Swans into a 12th-minute lead with a backheel finish.
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