Burton pile on woe for Wednesday
BURTON ALBION stormed to a third successive away win – and left Sheffield Wednesday in crisis.
Tom Flanagan, Tom Naylor and Lloyd Dyer – with his fifth goal of the season – scored in a 3-0 victory to send managerless Wednesday crashing to their fourth defeat in five matches.
Burton even missed a penalty as Lucas Akins’ spot-kick was saved by Joe Wildsmith but Brewers manager Nigel Clough said: “We took advantage of the Sheffield Wednesday situation with them having so many players missing for this game.”
Wednesday’s caretaker boss Lee Bullen labelled his side’s performance as “embarrassing and completely unacceptable”.
Tony Pulis celebrated his first win as Middlesbrough manager as Daniel Ayala’s brace helped the eye yesterday. Maddison scored one and made another for Tom Trybull as Norwich came from behind to beat Millwall 2-1. “The board has made it clear I’m under no pressure to sell any players,” said Farke.
Steve Morison put Millwall ahead but Norwich had too much for the Lions, whose manager Neil Harris said: “I’m raging with my players.
“For them to weather the storm for 20 minutes and get our noses in front, to then play like that in the second half was a disgrace.”
Gary Madine’s free-kick helped Bolton emerge from the relegation zone for just the second time since August as they beat Hull 1-0. “He came to us the other day and said he wanted to take free-kicks. I wish he’d