Championship Roundup: Langstaff Earns Millwall Late Victory At Norwich

Macaulay Langstaff made an instant effect from nan chair arsenic Millwall opened their Championship run pinch an fantabulous 2-1 triumph astatine Norwich. Introduced arsenic an 80th-minute substitute pinch nan crippled delicately poised, Langstaff took little than 3 minutes to make his beingness felt pinch a cool decorativeness to settee a keenly contested encounter.

After a cagey first half nan Lions quickly took nan lead aft nan break pinch a good decorativeness from Camiel Neghli, only for a correction from nan goalkeeper Steven Benda to manus Josh Sargent an equaliser 4 minutes later. Norwich, hoping to make it a winning commencement for Liam Manning, looked nan much apt to return each 3 points aft that, but it was nan Lions who had nan last opportunity to make it a happy return to Norfolk for Alex Neil, who had 2 years successful complaint astatine Carrow Road from 2015-17.

The summertime signing Harvey Knibbs scored a stoppage-time victor for Charlton arsenic past season’s League One playoff winners made it a losing commencement for nan caller Watford caput coach, Paulo Pezzolano. The 26-year-old pounced from Conor Coventry’s area heavy to nan backmost station successful nan closing moments.

Harvey Knibbs’ precocious victor aft 5 minutes of wounded clip sparks delirium astatine The Valley. Photograph: James Fearn/Getty Images

Charlton stay unbeaten astatine location since 3 December and person won 14 and drawn 3 of their past 17 matches, including nan playoff semi-final 2nd leg, nether Nathan Jones. The different victors astatine lunchtime were Southampton, who came from down to hit Wrexham 2-1 astatine home. The division’s different Welsh broadside besides lost, Swansea going down 1-0 astatine Middlesbrough.

Ryan Mason made a winning commencement arsenic West Brom caput coach pinch a 1-0 triumph complete Blackburn successful their play opener astatine nan Hawthorns. Isaac Price’s 15th-minute extremity gave Albion a deserved victory, pinch Aune Heggebø and Price again going close, while Blackburn’s only superior threat came from Yuki Ohashi’s saved shot. The hosts ended nan lucifer pinch 10 men aft Darnell Furlong was sent disconnected astatine nan death.

Adrian Segecic scored Portsmouth’s victor connected his debut against Oxford United. Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images

The Australian Adrian Segecic scored connected his debut to springiness Portsmouth a 1-0 triumph successful a fiercely contested brushwood astatine Oxford. The summertime signing from. Sydney FC struck successful nan 38th infinitesimal pinch a crisp follow-up decorativeness aft Jamie Cumming saved from Colby Bishop, who had surgery clear from Cameron Brannagan’s mediocre backpass. Pompey are now unbeaten successful their past 8 convention games against nan U’s.

Milutin Osmajic’s equaliser earned Preston an opening-day constituent successful a 1-1 tie astatine QPR successful nan westbound London side’s first lucifer nether Julien Stéphan.
Osmajic hauled Preston level aft Ben Whiteman’s first-half ain goal.

Coventry and Hull drew 0-0 astatine nan Coventry Building Society Arena. The closest either broadside came to breaking nan deadlock was erstwhile Milan van Ewijk’s long-range effort struck nan woodwork for nan hosts successful nan 2nd half. The consequence represents a decent return for nan Tigers, who went done a chaotic summertime successful which they were concisely put nether a transportation embargo.

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