Tafa’s leveller keeps Posh on top of table
PETERBOROUGH dropped points for the first time this season as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Doncaster.
John Marquis gave Rovers the lead before half-time but Ryan Tafazolli struck in the 58th minute.
Posh stay top but only on goal difference after Portsmouth thrashed bottom side Plymouth 3-0.
Ronan Curtis (2) and Jamal Lowe got the goals.
Sunderland dropped to fourth despite salvaging a point with 10 men against lowly Oxford.
Ricky Holmes fired the visitors ahead and when Max Power was sent off the Black Cats appeared to be heading for a first league defeat this season.
But Charlie Wyke scored with Sunderland’s only shot on target.
Barnsley and Walsall also remain unbeaten.
A first-half Kieffer Moore double helped the Tykes beat Gillingham 2-1, while Walsall drew 0-0 with Blackpool.
Shrewsbury drew 1-1 with Bristol Rovers.
Stefan Payne gave Rovers a 53rd-minute lead from the spot but they had Joe Martin sent off for a second yellow card six minutes later. A Daniel Leadbitter own goal 17 minutes from time earned Shrewsbury a point.
Goals from Stephen Quinn, David Templeton and Liam Boyce saw Burton claim a 3-0 victory over AFC Wimbledon.
Seamus Conneely cancelled out Matty Lund’s late goal as Accrington and Scunthorpe drew 1-1, while Joe Jacobson and Matty Pearson were on target for Wycombe and Luton respectively as they played out the same scoreline.
Joey Barton picked up his first home win as Fleetwood manager as goals from Ched Evans and Ashley Hunter secured a 2-1 victory against Bradford City, despite having Wes Burns sent off in the first half.
Charlton won 2-1 at Southend in a contest which saw three players sent off in stoppage time.
Lyle Taylor put Charlton ahead but Theo Robinson equalised. Krystian Bielik headed the winner three minutes from time.
Rochdale won 1-0 at Coventry, Calvin Andrew on target.
PHIL NEVILLE believes that the feel-good factor generated by Gareth Southgate and his team in Russia over the summer can help sweep his Lionesses to success in the women’s World Cup in France next year.
England booked their spot with a 3-0 win over Wales at Newport and Neville will ring the changes for the final qualifier in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
The England coach’s thoughts are already focused on a competition he believes England can win having reached the semi-finals of the European Championship last year.
“I believe we can win the World Cup and if the girls believe it and believe in me we will go close to winning it,” he said. “I think there will be a carry-over from the summer and we can tap into it. We have got a template now on how to prepare for a World Cup.”
MATT DUNN