Championship Roundup: Hansen’s Stoppage-time Strike Earns Boro Point At Preston

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The substitute Sontje Hansen scored a stoppage-time equaliser 3 minutes aft coming connected to gain Middlesbrough, nan leaders, a melodramatic 2-2 tie astatine Preston. The 23-year-old came disconnected nan chair a infinitesimal aft Jordan Storey looked to person won it for Preston and provided nan telling touch from adjacent scope aft nan hosts grounded to clear their lines from a corner.

Lewis Dobbin put nan visitors up pinch a sublime solo effort early connected earlier nan visitors sewage a deserved 72nd-minute leveller done Matt Targett. Storey put Preston backmost successful beforehand pinch an 88th-minute glancing header earlier nan last twist successful nan tale.

The substitute Ricardo Pereira struck a second-half equaliser arsenic 10-man Leicester denied Oxford a first Championship triumph of nan play successful an eventful 2-2 tie astatine nan Kassam Stadium. The Foxes had to play three-quarters of nan lucifer a man down aft Aaron Ramsey was sent disconnected successful nan 24th minute.

Will Lankshear fired Oxford into an early lead, which was soon cancelled retired by Jordan Ayew. Ramsey past forced a bully prevention retired of Jamie Cumming pinch an angled 25-yard thrust midway done nan half, but little than a infinitesimal later was shown a consecutive reddish paper by Ben Toner for scything down Matt Phillips adjacent nan touchline.

An ain extremity from Boubakary Soumaré astatine a area past gave Gary Rowett’s broadside a 2-1 lead astatine nan break, only for half-time sub Pereira to occurrence location an equaliser 10 minutes aft nan restart. This was nan first gathering betwixt nan teams since different 2-2 tie backmost successful April 1994.

Ra’ees Bangura-Williams’s 88th-minute extremity earned Millwall a 1-1 tie astatine nan Valley and denied Charlton a first triumph complete their southbound London rivals successful 29 years. Sonny Carey’s first extremity since his summertime move from Blackpool put them up successful nan 40th minute. But their power of nan title was ended by nan 74th-minute dismissal of centre-back Kayne Ramsay for 2 yellowish cards.

Carey opened his relationship for nan hosts aft Steven Benda could only fist Conor Coventry’s area to nan separator of nan punishment area, pinch a first-time onslaught fizzing done a crowded punishment area and into nan bottommost of nan net.

Charlton were reduced to 10 men aft Ramsay picked up his 2nd yellowish paper from Robert Madley – some for fouls connected nan vulnerable Aidomo Emakhu, easy nan champion performer for Millwall connected a below-par day. Bangura-Williams was past nan quickest to respond aft Thomas Kaminski was only capable to push Luke Cundle’s changeable backmost retired into danger, lashing successful nan loose ball.