Callum O’Hare became Coventry City’s hero on Saturday afternoon, coming off the bench to bag the winner to maintain the Sky Blues’ 100% winning record at St Andrews, whilst condemning Blackpool to a first league defeat of the campaign. Here’s our Player Ratings from the game. Coventry City Marko Marosi – the former Doncaster goalkeeper… Read more →
Callum O’Hare became Coventry City’s hero on Saturday afternoon, coming off the bench to bag the winner to maintain the Sky Blues’ 100% winning record at St Andrews, whilst condemning Blackpool to a first league defeat of the campaign. Here’s our Six Things from the game. Kaikai’s first half double Simon Grayson’s side pressed at… Read more →
With the 2018-19 League One season coming up, The Football Lab spoke to Katie Whyatt (@KatieWhyatt) from the excellent Width Of A Post. For the first time in seven years last season, Bradford City finished lower than the previous campaign. Do you consider Stuart McCall’s controversial dismissal to be a factor behind the post-Christmas plummet?… Read more →
Blackburn Rovers went top of League One on Thursday night after second half goals from Bradley Dack and Craig Conway gave them a 2-0 win over out-of-form Bradford City. Here’s six things from the game. Blackburn’s bold start Tony Mowbray, who is arguably establishing himself as one of Blackburn’s most popular managers so far this… Read more →
John Marquis’ late brace gave Doncaster Rovers a 2-0 victory over out-of-form Bradford City on Monday night: here’s five things from the game. Intricate Doncaster Not for the first time this season, Darren Ferguson asked his Doncaster side to overload central areas and play cute one-touch football in tight spaces. Winger-turned-right-back Matty Blair therefore rarely… Read more →
A big factor behind Sunderland’s poor start to the season has been their record in the latter stages of games. They have scored three and conceded seven in the second halves of matches – only two teams have scored fewer and just three have conceded more. No side has conceded more than their five in… Read more →
With a two-week break from the Championship for internationals, this is a good time to review how all 24 teams have looked in their first five league games. Here’s our assessment of Sunderland. What we said in pre-season “After the horrors of last season, Sunderland face a tough season ahead and the midfield performances of… Read more →
Until last season, Bolton Wanderers had seemingly been getting worse every year for over half a decade. Just how refreshing was it to watch a winning Trotters team once again? The Football Lab speaks to supporter Ben Reardon ahead of the new season. Following the turmoil that had engulfed the club on and off the pitch, particularly ever… Read more →
The big news at Deepdale this summer is that manager Simon Grayson has left after four years at the helm. In that time, Preston have grown from being League One relegation strugglers to become a respected top half Championship outfit. Supporter Ben – who runs the excellent Ben HD Championship channel – is grateful for the job Grayson did. He did brilliant… Read more →
Newcastle secured promotion to the Premier League with a 4-1 win over Preston North End. Despite a tight first half in which Jordan Hugill cancelled out Ayoze Perez’s opener, Christian Atsu put the hosts back in front and they took control, helped by Paul Gallagher’s red card. What have we learnt from the match? Strong… Read more →