Results see Burton staying seven clear
Albion remained seven points clear of the League One drop zone despite Saturday’s defeat as only Swindon Town of the six clubs below the Brewers won.
Swindon were 2-0 victors away to Fleetwood Town to climb off the bottom of the table and out of the relegation places, with only two points separating those six clubs.
Scott Twine scored twice for the Robins.
Rochdale are back on the bottom after an extraordinary 3-3 draw at home to Peterborough United in which they overturned a two-goal deficit, then conceded a stoppagetime equaliser.
Peterborough raced ahead with an early strike from Siriki Dembele and doubled their advantage through Sammie Szmodics in firsthalf stoppage time.
Stephen Humphrys pulled one back from the penalty spot after 55 minutes, then goals in the 87th and 90th minutes from Jake Beesley and Jimmy Keohane put them in front before Jonson Clarke-harris netted a penalty to equalise.
Ryan Longman struck twice for AFC Wimbledon at Plough Lane as they twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with Charlton Athletic in Nigel Adkins’ first game in charge of the Addicks. Jayden Stockley and Diallang Jaiyesimi were on target for them.
Northamptom Town lost 1-0 at home to Crewe Alexandra, Owen Dale scoring the winner.
Wigan Athletic slipped back into the bottom four as they were beaten 3-1 away to Accrington Stanley.
The Latics took a first-minute lead through Callum Lang but Accy replied quickly through Cameron Burgess and went on to win with goals from Michael Nottingham and, from the penalty spot, Dion Charles.
Former Brewers loanee Niall Ennis scored twice as Plymouth Argyle saw off Bristol Rovers 2-0.
Shrewsbury Town will come to the Pirelli Stadium tomorrow night two points ahead of Burton after drawing 1-1 at home to Hull City.
Goalkeeper Matt Ingram’s unfortunate own goal, when Nathaniel Ogbeta’s free kick hit the bar and rebounded in off him, gave the Shrews a 53rd minute lead which Greg Docherty cancelled out only nine MINBURTON utes later.
Danny Cowley took over as Portsmouth manager and saw their two former Burton players, Tom Naylor and Marcus Harness, score as they came from behind to beat Ipswich Town 2-1. James Norwood had put Ipswich ahead.
Veteran James Coppinger made one and scored one as Doncaster Rovers came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 away to Gillingham, who had scored their goals through Jordan Graham and Vadaine Oliver inside the first four minutes.
Sunderland were chasing a sixth successive win in all competitions and led Lincoln City through Callum Mcfadzean’s 40th-minute header at the Stadium of Light but Callum Morton equalised to complete a set of draws for the top six teams in the division.
Kenneth Dougall and Daniel Ballard were on target as Blackpool beat Oxford United 2-0 at the Kassam Stadium.