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The weekend games were somewhat stretched this week with Portsmouth's win at Swansea being played on Friday and Leicester's 1-0 win over Forest last night surely capturing a small Sky audience with El Clasico in competition.
An Andy King goal won it for Leicester whilst Bristol City had a good day against Sheffield United, winning 3-0 with two Brett Pitman penalties and a goal direct from a corner.
Up at the top of the league, QPR stretched their lead with a 2-1 win over second place Cardiff but the Welsh side's manager Dave Jones was very unhappy at having a penalty turned down by referee Kevin Friend.
Friend's having a nightmare season. It seems to be week upon week he's getting major decisions wrong and he got this one badly wrong too. It should work out though, I'm sure the FAW will find some way of stepping in to sort it.
The weather played its part too. Coventry celebrated their first goal at Scunthorpe by chucking snowballs at each other. Coventry's second goal is an interesting one. Marlon King's shot has hit the post, bounced out onto Scunthorpe goalkeeper Joe Murphy and rebounded in. Boothroyd has claimed it is King's goal but it has been formally, and quite correctly, credited as a Murphy own goal. Boothroyd must be desperate to get King his first goal since April 2009.
On the subject of snow, it was like the 1960s up at Middlesbrough. Back then snow never caused any real problems for games. They just used to roll it, get the orange ball out and away they went. That's exactly what referee Phil Crossley did at the Riverside on Saturday.
The results have seen Norwich and Coventry replaced Leeds and Nottingham Forest in the top six with Norwich's win on Sunday against Ipswich knocking us out of the play off positions. We are now seventh.
Unbeaten QPR are now five points clear at the top and it's the same bottom three although Crystal Palace are moving away from Middlesbrough and Preston. Tony Mowbray will now surely be looking at January before he can change things but for bottom club North End, it is getting worrying with manager Darren Ferguson talking about IF they stay up. That sounds positive.
The results, weekend stats, the league's leading scorers and each club's disciplinary record are below along with next weekend's fixtures when we are back to all twelve games being on the Saturday.
The Weekend Results | |
Friday 26th November | |
Swansea 1 Portsmouth 2 | . |
Saturday 27th November | |
Barnsley 0 Watford 0 | Preston 0 Millwall 0 |
Bristol City 3 Sheffield United 0 | QPR 2 Cardiff 1 |
Burnley 2 Derby 1 | Reading 0 Leeds 0 |
Crystal Palace 1 Doncaster 0 | Scunthorpe 0 Coventry 2 |
Middlesbrough 2 Hull 2 | . |
Sunday 28th November | |
Norwich 4 Ipswich 1 | . |
Monday 29th November | |
Leicester 1 Nottingham Forest 0 | . |
The Weekend Stats | |
Biggest win | Bristol City 3-0 v Sheffield United (home) |
Total goals scored | 25 (16 home - 9 away) |
Player scoring most goals | 3 - Grant Holt (Norwich) |
Highest Attendance | 26,532 - Norwich v Ipswich |
Lowest Attendance | 4,397 - Scunthorpe v Coventry |
Total Yellow Cards | 32 |
Total Red Cards | 2 |
Most cards in a game | Norwich v Ipswich (6Y 1R) - Keith Hill |
The leading scorers (league only) | |
13 | Jay Bothroyd (Cardiff) |
10 | Kris Commons (Derby) - includes 2 penalties |
9 | Chris Iwelumo (Burnley) Lewis McGugan (Nottingham Forest) - includes 1 penalty Adel Taarabt (QPR) - includes 4 penalties |
8 | Luciano Becchio (Leeds) Andy King (Leicester) Jamie Mackie (QPR) Scott Sinclair (Swansea) |
7 | Danny Graham (Watford) Andy Hammill (Barnsley) Grant Holt (Norwich) Jon Parkin (Preston) |
6 | James Coppinger (Doncaster) James Hayter (Doncaster) Liam Lawrence (Portsmouth) - includes 4 penalties Steve Morison (Millwall) - includes 1 penalty Billy Sharp (Doncaster) - includes 3 penalties Davide Somma (Leeds) Marvin Sordell (Watford) Jonathan Stead (Bristol City) |
Hat Tricks (league only) | |
11th Sep | 3 - Chris Iwelumo - BURNLEY v Preston |
14th Sep | 3 - James Coppinger - DONCASTER v Norwich |
14th Sep | 3 - James Vaughan - CRYSTAL PALACE v Portsmouth |
28th Sep | 3 - Jon Parkin - Leeds v PRESTON |
30th Oct | 3 - Jonny Howson - Scunthorpe v LEEDS |
13th Nov | 3 - Luciano Becchio - LEEDS v Bristol City |
27th Nov | 3 - Grant Holt - NORWICH v Leeds |
Disciplinary Record (all domestic games) | |||||
| Club | Y | R | Club | Y | R |
| Barnsley | 31 | 0 | Middlesbrough | 29 | 1 |
| Bristol City | 21 | 1 | Millwall | 30 | 2 |
| Burnley | 39 | 4 | Norwich | 27 | 2 |
| Cardiff | 22 | 1 | Nottingham Forest | 28 | 0 |
| Coventry | 31 | 1 | Portsmouth | 31 | 3 |
| Crystal Palace | 30 | 5 | Preston | 45 | 5 |
| Derby | 32 | 1 | QPR | 32 | 2 |
| Doncaster | 25 | 1 | Reading | 34 | 3 |
| Hull | 35 | 1 | Scunthorpe | 20 | 1 |
| Ipswich | 31 | 3 | Sheffield United | 25 | 4 |
| Leeds | 35 | 2 | Swansea | 42 | 1 |
| Leicester | 22 | 2 | Watford | 22 | 0 |
The Next Fixtures | |
Saturday 4th December | |
Cardiff v Preston | Leeds v Crystal Palace |
Coventry v Middlesbrough | Millwall v Scunthorpe (17:20) |
Derby v Norwich | Nottingham Forest v Bristol City |
Doncaster v Barnsley | Portsmouth v Burnley |
Hull v QPR | Sheffield United v Reading |
Ipswich v Swansea (12:45) | Watford v Leicester |