Championship ROUND-UP

WEST BROMWICH capitalised on Leeds’ surprise defeat to return to the Championship summit with a 2-0 win over bottom club LUTON. It brought relief for Slaven Bilic’s side after seven league games without a win. Callum Robinson, who joined on a deadline-day loan from Sheffield United, supplied the cross that Luton’s Donervon Daniels put through his own net for the opener. Semi Ajayi made sure of the points. Bilic said: ‘We needed this and deserved it completely. This has to be the standard.’

FULHAM are just three points behind Leeds after they held off a spirited HUDDERSFIELD fightback to win 3-2 at Craven Cottage. Bobby DecordovaReid, Tom Cairney and Aleksandar Mitrovic, returning from three weeks out, emphatically ended Fulham’s 274-minute wait for a goal. But Emile Smith Rowe and Steve Mounie replied for the Terriers, all inside the first 40 minutes, before Fulham keeper Marek Rodak made several vital saves. ‘These are the games that take years off you,’ said Fulham boss Scott Parker. Said Benrahma paid tribute to his father, who died last month, with a hat-trick as

BRENTFORD thrashed HULL 5-1. The Tigers, without Jarrod Bowen and Kamil Grosicki after deadline-day moves, fell behind to Benrahma’s first goal with the Algerian revealing an ‘I love you Papa’ T-shirt. Reece Burke scored an own goal to double Brentford’s lead. A header from Ollie Watkins and two more from Benrahma sealed the win.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST remain fourth despite seeing their seven-match unbeaten run ended by BIRMINGHAM. And BRISTOL CITY recorded a fourth straight win — all without conceding — as Famara Diedhiou’s diving header split them and QPR. ‘You have to win dirty and I don’t mean with fouls, I mean by digging in,’ said City boss Lee Johnson.