Cardiff go top after easy win over Leeds

LONDON: Cardiff leapfrogged Leeds to take over at top of the English Championship with a 3-1 win.

Kenneth Zohore’s double and a Junior Hoilett goal secured an easy victory on Tuesday against a Leeds side whose captain Liam Cooper was dismissed before half-time after picking up two yellow cards.

Kemar Roofe scored Leeds’ consolation goal late on but they fell to a second defeat in three Championship games.

Welsh side Cardiff have 23 points from 10 games, three ahead of Leeds and Wolves, who have a game in hand, and four ahead of Preston who beat Hull 2-1 away thanks to Callum Robinson’s late goal.

Ipswich sit a point further back in fifth after they thrashed struggling Sunderland 5-2 to arrest a slump of three defeats in four league games.

The Black Cats, relegated from the English Premier League last season, have won once in the Championship all season and are in the bottom three with six points from a possible 30.

Bristol City registered a 2-0 victory against bottom side Bolton to climb to seventh – one point ahead of Aston Villa who thrashed Burton 4-0 away.

Middlesbrough missed the chance to move into the top six as they lost 1-0 at home to mid-table Norwich, while Fulham won 3-1 at Nottingham Forest.

Millwall scored two late goals to beat visiting Reading 2-1, Brentford netted a late equaliser in the 1-1 home draw against Derby while Barnsley and Queens Park Rangers finished 1-1. — Reuters