Roundup of midweek Sky Bet Championship action as the top four clubs all kept their promotion ambitions on track.
Haji Wright again provided Coventry’s match-winner with his 78th-minute strike in a 2-1 win at home to fifth-placed Millwall, in which Romain Esse fired them in front initially against his old team before Mihailo Ivanovic netted the Lions’ equaliser.
Middlesbrough remained second with a comeback 2-1 win at Stoke as Alan Browne equalised from close-range before he then set up Tommy Conway’s winner, after Tomas Rigo had fired the Potters into a half-time lead but the hosts finished a man down after Bosun Lawal’s red card for fouling Aidan Morris.
Jack Clarke’s brace saw third-placed Ipswich cruise to a 2-0 home win over Bristol City.
Liam Millar, Akin Famewo and Oli McBurnie found the net for fourth-placed Hull in a 3-0 victory at sixth-placed Preston, as the hosts finished without Milutin Osmajic after the forward was red carded in the 95th minute.
Down in the relegation zone, Sheffield Wednesday remain rock bottom after a 2-0 defeat at home to Birmingham City through late goals from Marvin Ducksh and Kyogo Furuhashi.
Oxford United remained second bottom as they stuttered to a goalless draw at home to QPR.
Norwich climbed out of the bottom three after a dominant 5-0 victory at West Brom as Oscar Schwartau opened the scoring, before Ali Ahmed, Anis Ben Slimane, Ben Chrisene and Mathias Kvistgaarden netted second-half goals to seal the rout.
Blackburn consequently slipped to third bottom with a 3-1 loss at Swansea in which Mathias Jorgensen pulled them level after Zan Vipotnik’s opener in his eventual brace, whilst the Swans’ second goal came from Connor O’Riordan’s own-goal.
Elsewhere, Macaulay Gillesphey’s own-goal and Bobby Clark’s finish saw Derby clinch a 2-1 victory at Derby despite Tyrese Campbell’s consolatory finish for the hosts, although the Rams finished with ten men after Matt Clarke’s 85th-minute red card.
Leo Scienza’s deflected seventh-minute strike proved enough for Southampton to snatch a 1-0 victory at home to Sheffield United.
Mamadou Doumbia’s curled finish saw Watford snatch a 1-1 draw at home to Portsmouth, after the visitors had been on course to end their 30-year hoodoo at Vicarage Road since April 1996 following Adrian Segecic’s opener.
Jannik Vestergaard’s equaliser cancelled out Lewis O’Brien’s strike as Leicester snatched a 1-1 draw at Wrexham.
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