Leeds march to top spot

Leeds took advantage of Cardiff’s defeat at Preston to go top of the Sky Bet Championship courtesy of a 2-0 home win over Birmingham.

Samuel Saiz had put Leeds ahead after just 17 minutes, but they had to wait until stoppage time for substitute Stuart Dallas to condemn City to a fourth straight league defeat.

Promoted Sheffield United hauled themselves into third place as Cameron Carter-vickers marked his debut with the only goal at bottom-of-the-table Bolton.

Wolves drew 3-3 with Bristol City at Molineux. The home side led through Leo Bonatini’s first-half effort and again when Diogo Jota struck after the break, but Aden Flint’s equaliser and Famara Diedhiou’s penalty made it 2-2 and it needed a late Danny Batth goal to deny City victory after Bobby Reid had put them ahead for the first time in the game.

Middlesbrough slipped out of the play-off places after a 0-0 draw at Aston Villa on a night when both teams were reduced to 10 men.

The Teessiders had ex-villa player Adama Traoré dismissed with less than four minutes on the clock for a poor challenge on Conor Hourihane and Henri Lansbury followed Traoré down the tunnel for a late tackle on Marvin Johnson.

Goals from Gary Hooper and Ross Wallace secured a 2-1 win for Sheffield Wednesday over Brentford, who had led through Nico Yennaris’ ninth-minute opener.

Sunderland old boy Daryl Murphy condemned his former employers to a fourth successive league defeat with the only goal at the Stadium of Light as Nottingham Forest secured a 1-0 win.

Massimo Luongo and Matt Smith both struck inside the final 17 minutes to secure a 2-2 draw for Queens Park Rangers against 10-man Millwall. Conor Mclaughlin put the visitors ahead and despite Lee Gregory’s 41st-minute dismissal for a crude challenge on Josh Scowen, Jed Wallace doubled their lead before Rangers hit back.

Norwich and Burton drew 0-0.