THE EFL WEEKEND IN SIXTY SECONDS

SAINTS LET IT SLIP

AFTER going on a club record 22-game unbeaten run from September 2023 to February 2024, Southampton have lost three of their last four Championship games... Feb 13: LOST 3-1 v Bristol City Feb 16: WON 2-0 v West Brom Feb 20: LOST 2-1 v Hull

Feb 24: LOST 2-1 v Millwall

PILGRIMS MARCH ON

2 HAVING failed to win on the road in 15 games, Plymouth Argyle have now recorded two away wins this month — 1-0 at Swansea on February 3 and 2-0 against Middlesbrough on Saturday at the Riverside Stadium. PSOnly

two teams in the EFL failed to register a single shot on target this weekend — Middlesbrough and League Two’s Harrogate Town.

FIVE-GOAL THRILLER!

READING’S match against Shrewsbury saw three goals in the opening nine minutes — the earliest that League One has ever seen that many goals scored in a game

Here’s how it unfolded... 3min Reading 0 Shrewsbury 1 (J Shipley)

5min Reading 0 Shrewsbury 2 (T Bayliss)

9min Reading 1 Shrewsbury 2 (S Smith)

36min Reading 2 Shrewsbury 2 (K Ehibhatiomhan)

45+5min Reading 2 Shrewsbury 3 (T Bloxham)

CUMBRIAN CHAOS

8 BOTTOM-PLACED Carlisle have lost eight successive games in League One. They have had a longer losing streak just once before — 12 consecutive defeats from September-December in 2003.

STAG–GERING!

MANSFIELD TOWN secured their first ever League Two double over Salford City, beating them 5-1 on Saturday. The Stags have scored 20 goals in the league this month — their most in a calendar month since December 1994.

PSFOREST GREEN ROVERS have won two of their last three League Two games under new manager Steve Cotterrill — as many as in their previous 24 matches.