{"id":1827,"date":"2016-08-21T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:48:20","slug":"football-league-thoughts-wolves-join-chasing-pack-huddersfield-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2016\/08\/21\/football-league-thoughts-wolves-join-chasing-pack-huddersfield-go-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Football League your thoughts: Wolves join chasing pack as Huddersfield go top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Perhaps the league table does lie this early in the season \u2013the top four at the start of play all failed to win, with <strong>Luton<\/strong> crashing to a late defeat at their hitherto winless neighbours, <strong>Stevenage.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/football-league-blog\/2016\/aug\/20\/football-league-your-thoughts-huddersfield-wolves\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardian.png\" alt=\"Powered by Guardian.co.uk\" width=\"140\" height=\"45\" \/>This article titled &#8220;Football League your thoughts: Wolves join chasing pack as Huddersfield go top&#8221; was written by Niall McVeigh, for The Guardian on Saturday 20th August 2016 18.49 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Championship<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Huddersfield <\/strong>are the division\u2019s new leaders but left it late to beat <strong>Barnsley<\/strong> 2-1 as Jonathan Hogg fired an injury-time winner. They are the only team to win three matches, and sit two points clear. David Wagner, who was the best man at J\u00fcrgen Klopp\u2019s wedding, will enjoy his Sunday more than the Liverpool manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Walter Zenga\u2019s <strong>Wolves<\/strong> are among that pack after an impressive 3-1 derby win at <strong>Birmingham<\/strong>. Joe Mason curled in an equaliser for the visitors before Danny Batth and Jon Bodvarsson sealed all three points. Later, <strong>Derby<\/strong> and <strong>Aston Villa<\/strong> played out a teatime goalless draw in a far less exciting Midlands clash.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail\">\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/aug\/19\/ten-of-the-best-non-premier-league-family-friendly-football-clubs\">Ten of the best non-Premier League family friendly football clubs<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Fulham<\/strong> and <strong>Brighton<\/strong> are still unbeaten after both teams were involved in 2-2 draws. Brighton were pegged back at <strong>Reading<\/strong>, while Kevin McDonald earned Fulham a late point at home against <strong>Cardiff<\/strong>. A few miles away at Loftus Road, <strong>Preston<\/strong> pulled off the surprise result of the day, beating <strong>QPR<\/strong> 2-0 to earn their first points of the season.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image\" data-media-id=\"36c29024dfc1e59924ce7181a022731f6957c621\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/36c29024dfc1e59924ce7181a022731f6957c621\/0_42_2020_1212\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"Jermaine Beckford celebrates Preston\u2019s second goal at Loftus Road.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"gu-image\" \/><figcaption> <span class=\"element-image__caption\">Jermaine Beckford celebrates Preston\u2019s second goal at Loftus Road.<\/span> <span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: Ashley Western\/CameraSport via Getty Images<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Blackburn<\/strong> stay bottom after a 2-2 home draw with <strong>Burton<\/strong>. Rovers twice took the lead, with Craig Conway\u2019s long-range strike opening the scoring, but Burton fought back and are now the division\u2019s top scorers. Fellow entertainers <strong>Nottingham Forest<\/strong> edged <strong>Wigan<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2016\/aug\/20\/nottingham-forest-wigan-athletic-championship-match-report\" title=\"\">in a seven-goal thriller<\/a> at the City Ground \u2013 Forest\u2019s four games have seen 18 goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Newcastle<\/strong> avoided drama this weekend, with Dwight Gayle\u2019s well-taken goal enough for a routine 1-0 victory at <strong>Bristol City<\/strong>. <strong>Rotherham<\/strong> won by the same scoreline at home to <strong>Brentford<\/strong> \u2013 Danny Ward\u2019s goal moving them level with neighbours <strong>Sheffield Wednesday<\/strong>, who suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2016\/aug\/20\/sheffield-wednesday-leeds-united-championship-match-report\" title=\"\">a 2-0 derby defeat<\/a> at home to <strong>Leeds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>League One<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Bolton<\/strong> stay top but were made to work hard for a 2-1 home win by <strong>Fleetwood<\/strong>, who led at half-time. Gary Madine and Josh Vela scored the goals to maintain Wanderers\u2019 100% record. <strong>Charlton<\/strong>, who dropped out of the Championship with Bolton, won 2-1 at <strong>Walsall<\/strong> to move into the top six.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail\">\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2016\/aug\/16\/best-goals-week-david-villa-will-grigg-nick-powell\">The best goals of the week: David Villa, Will Grigg and Nick Powell<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Scunthorpe<\/strong> are second after thrashing <strong>Gillingham<\/strong> 5-0 at Glanford Park to take their goal tally to 12 \u2013 three per game. Brad Barry \u2013 nephew of Gareth \u2013 scored the only goal as <strong>Swindon<\/strong> beat <strong>Port Vale<\/strong>, and <strong>Oldham<\/strong> won at <strong>Bury<\/strong> by the same score.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image\" data-media-id=\"419404ebe70a6a400d6699802c8cbb8399733689\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/419404ebe70a6a400d6699802c8cbb8399733689\/159_0_2482_1489\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Madine\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"gu-image\" \/><figcaption> <span class=\"element-image__caption\">Gary Madine scores the equaliser for Bolton against Fleetwood at the Macron Stadium.<\/span> <span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: Chris Vaughan\/CameraSport via Getty Images<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2022 Chris Wilder\u2019s difficult start at <strong>Sheffield United<\/strong> goes on; the Blades are bottom after Steve Morison\u2019s late penalty condemned them to a 2-1 defeat at <strong>Millwall<\/strong>. Wilder\u2019s former side, <strong>Northampton<\/strong>, drew 0-0 at home with <strong>Wimbledon<\/strong>, allowing the Dons to overtake his current club.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Rochdale<\/strong> and <strong>Coventry<\/strong> have also dropped into the bottom four. Dale lost to a late Scott Wootton header at <strong>MK Dons<\/strong>, while the Sky Blues collapsed at third-placed <strong>Bradford<\/strong>, conceding three goals \u2013 two of them penalties \u2013 and having Jordan Turnbull sent off in a 10-minute second-half spell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Shrewsbury<\/strong> earned their first win of the season, with Adam El-Abd\u2019s late winner grabbing a 2-1 home win over <strong>Chesterfield<\/strong>. <strong>Oxford<\/strong> also won 2-1 at home through Chris Maguire\u2019s injury-time penalty against <strong>Peterborough<\/strong>. At Roots Hall, Simon Cox\u2019s late penalty earned <strong>Southend<\/strong> a 1-1 draw against <strong>Bristol Rovers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>League Two<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Perhaps the league table does lie this early in the season \u2013the top four at the start of play all failed to win, with <strong>Luton<\/strong> crashing to a late defeat at their hitherto winless neighbours, <strong>Stevenage<\/strong>. <strong>Colchester<\/strong> lost to <strong>Portsmouth<\/strong> at Fratton Park, <strong>Crawley<\/strong> played out a draw with <strong>Barnet<\/strong>, and <strong>Mansfield<\/strong> were undone by a Graham Carey double at <strong>Plymouth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 That left the door open for <strong>Morecambe<\/strong>, who vaulted to the top of the table with victory at <strong>Yeovil<\/strong>; Kevin Ellison scored the only goal. <strong>Doncaster<\/strong> also won away by the odd goal, at <strong>Cheltenham<\/strong>, while <strong>Leyton Orient<\/strong> took all three points at <strong>Grimsby<\/strong>, another promoted side. Liam Kelly and Ollie Palmer got the goals as Orient climbed to fourth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image\" data-media-id=\"9a4e6f6da08b04bc871a6fd10a165e7398e403b5\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/9a4e6f6da08b04bc871a6fd10a165e7398e403b5\/0_116_4568_2741\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"Blackpool\u2019s Brad Potts and Wycombe\u2019s Dan Rowe in action at a sparsely-populated Bloomfield Road.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"gu-image\" \/><figcaption> <span class=\"element-image__caption\">Blackpool\u2019s Brad Potts and Wycombe\u2019s Dan Rowe in action at a sparsely-populated Bloomfield Road.<\/span> <span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: CameraSport &#8211; Stephen White<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Exeter<\/strong> began the day at the bottom, but fans were rewarded for travelling to <strong>Accrington<\/strong> as they won 2-1, Jake Taylor scoring the winner. Jon Stead\u2019s goal at <strong>Hartlepool<\/strong> earned <strong>Notts County<\/strong> their first win of the season, leaving <strong>Cambridge <\/strong>propping up the rest after a 2-2 draw with <strong>Carlisle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chelsea loanee Alex Kiwomya scored his third goal of the season as <strong>Crewe<\/strong> earned a draw at <strong>Newport<\/strong>, while at Bloomfield Road, <strong>Blackpool v Wycombe<\/strong> finished goalless.<\/p>\n<p>guardian.co.uk &#169; Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2010<\/p>\n<p>Published via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/open-platform\/news-feed-wordpress-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian News Feed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/the-guardian-news-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wordress plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">plugin<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield United\u2019s slump deepens, Burton, Nottingham Forest and Scunthorpe keep scoring, and Bolton make it four wins from four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[61,267,263,96,19,262,261,265,264,258,269,123,270,268,119,63,120,266],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-article","tag-bolton-wanderers","tag-championship","tag-features","tag-football","tag-football-league","tag-football-league-blog","tag-huddersfield","tag-league-one","tag-league-two","tag-morecambe","tag-news-features","tag-niall-mcveigh","tag-sheffield-united","tag-sport","tag-the-guardian","tag-uk-sport","tag-wolverhampton-wanderers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}