Championship Results 26th January Part 2

Peterborough United 0-1 Preston North End
This was the Championship’s equivalent of Bolton v Burnley with Darren Ferguson in the role of the Championship’s Owen Coyle. And it ended exactly the sane way – a 1-0 victory with the manager’s new club beating his old club.
Craig Morgan missed this game due to suspension, as did Peterborough’s other first-choice centre back. Preston’s Paul Parry is likely to be missing for a while with his knee injury. It’s hard to imagine Peterborough to survive the drop and it probably won’t be much comfort that just getting up there in the first place was a great achievement and they do have one of the best English goalkeepers in the football league.

Plymouth 1-0 Derby County
Carl Fletcher captained a Plymouth side who are at least having a pretty good go at survival. Carl should probably have scored but as it happened his goal wasn’t needed. Plymouth’s victory over Derby was very useful for them – and it was the very least thing Robbie Savage’s Derby needed.

Sheffield United 3-0 Reading
Ched Evans played the first 79 minutes for Sheffield United but goals continue to elude him. But at least he was on the winning side, unlike Reading’s Simon Church, who stayed on the bench as Sheffield United proved considerably tougher than Liverpool.

Swansea City 0-0 Coventry City
Ashley Williams kept his place in Swansea’s starting line-up but Joe Allen and David Cotterill were dropped to the bench despite good performances against Middlesbrough at the weekend. Joe came on after half-time and gave Swansea some much-needed life but Swansea just couldn’t break the deadlock. Neither did Coventry, who had lost Freddy Eastwood to a knee injury. David Cornell was on the bench for Swansea.