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Joe Gelhardt’s last-gasp goal earned Hull a smash-and-grab 2-1 win at Stoke and put them into the top six. Sorba Thomas scored a first-half wonder goal to give Stoke a deserved lead at the break, but, facing a third successive defeat, the Tigers battled back after half-time.
Defender Semi Ajayi scored a controversial 47th-minute equaliser before Gelhardt’s ninth goal of the season earned the visitors an unlikely three points.
The final whistle sparked a brawl between the teams, with a number of objects thrown onto the pitch by home fans before calm was restored and five yellow cards were shown by referee Leigh Doughty.
Anis Mehmeti gave Bristol City a deserved 1-0 win at Portsmouth. His goal in the 17th minute was enough for the visitors as the hosts dropped into the relegation zone having won one of their past nine league games.
It took John Mousinho’s side until the 78th minute to have their first shot on target when Makenzie Kirk saw his effort comfortably saved by Radek Vitek.
“The aggression, the intensity, the distances, but also in on-ball moments, clear, clean decision-making, everything on a level,” said the City manager Gerhard Struber, whose side had won just once in their previous five games. “I think to win here in the end, you need every single player, all of them. How we dealt with the atmosphere, with the game from them, was on a really high level. I am really pleased with how we did it.”
Sheffield United moved out of the relegation zone after a tense 3-2 victory at Leicester gave them their third win in six days. They raced into a two-goal lead inside four minutes with goals from ex-Leicester striker Tom Cannon and Jairo Riedewald. A superb volley from Sydie Peck gave them a 3-0 lead at half-time.
Leicester improved in the second half and pulled one back through Stephy Mavididi before Jordan James set up a thrilling finish with a spectacular long-range strike after 82 minutes.
The Blades beat their city rivals Sheffield Wednesday last Sunday and followed that up with another 3-0 victory at home to Portsmouth. Three more goals proved good enough to lift them two points clear of the bottom three.
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“We know if we win games of football, we’re going to climb the league,” said Wilder.
“But our approach, attitude and philosophy was not to come here, sit in and counter attack, we went for the jugular. We back ourselves to go and cause the opposition problems. We looked dangerous every time.”
On Friday, Przemyslaw Placheta struck a superb winner to give Oxford a shock 2-1 victory over in-form Ipswich and their first win in six league matches. Mark Harris fired the U’s in front in the 28th minute with his first goal of the season, following up after Christian Walton saved his first shot.
Leif Davis equalised for Ipswich in the 53rd minute, volleying home unmarked from the edge of the area when Marcelino Núñez picked him out with a pinpoint outswinging corner. But the substitute Placheta broke clear on the right from Brian De Keersmaecker’s ball out of defence in the 77th minute and the Pole cut inside a defender before finishing clinically from 20 yards.
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