Irish Daily Star

Sinani gets Canaries flying at last

- ■■Championsh­ip ROUND-UP

JOSH SARGENT rose to the occasion as Norwich saw off 10man Huddersfie­ld to get their first points of the season.

USA striker Sargent nodded in the opener six minutes in and Danel Sinani was also on target on a night when the Terriers played almost half the game a man down after Tom Lees’ dismissal, after he felled Sargent as he made a break.

It was a first league win of the season for Dean Smith’s Canaries — who had kicked off bottom of the table — but sub Pat Jones’ late Terriers reply made them sweat.

Ken Sema kept Rob Edwards’ unbeaten start as Watford boss intact with a second-half equaliser at Birmingham.

The Swede powered home after Blues midfielder George Hall, 18, had given the home side a shock lead in only his second career start.

Preston did everything but score, meanwhile, as they slugged out their third goalless stalemate of the season, at home to Chiedozie Ogbene’s Rotherham.

Killer

They dominated the newlypromo­ted Millers but could not find the killer touch,

First-half strikes from Nahki Wells and Tommy Conway produced a first Championsh­ip win of the season for 10-man

Bristol City.

Wells fired the home side in front on five minutes, running on to Alex Scott’s through ball before slotting a low shot past Ethan Horvath.

The lead was doubled in the 28th minute when Andreas Weimann broke down the left and provided a perfect low cross for Conway to shot into an unguarded net from six yards.

City were in total control until the 67th minute when Mark Sykes received a straight red card for diving into a tackle on Luke Freeman,

Jay Rodriguez rescued Burnley a point in his first start of the season.

The 33-year-old striker levelled for the Clarets after Ozan

Tufan had fired the Tigers into a welcome lead at Turf Moor.

Ireland midfielder Josh Cullen went close to heading the Clarets ahead a minute before the break, but he directed his effort wide from Maatsen’s ball to the back post.

Josh Bowler went from Blackpool zero to hero with the winner at Loftus Road.

Apologised

The ex-QPR youth player had publicly apologised to Tangerines fans on social media for his poor performanc­e in last weekend’s home defeat to Swansea.

But last night Bowler lashed in a shot at the second attempt in first-half stoppage time.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Ireland