Championship Results 21st August 2010 Part 2

Crystal Palace 1-2 Ipswich Town
Ipswich continue their quest to make this season the opposite of last season – they’re yet to lose a match. Crystal Palace didn’t win but they are out of administration which is more important.
Andy Dorman played on the left for Palace and nearly scored a few times for Crystal Palace but he only got the ball in the net once and even then it didn’t count because it was offside. Lewis Price was on the bench.
Troy Brown was back on the bench for Ipswich after recovering from an ankle injury but he didn’t get to play this time.

Hull City 0-0 Watford
This wasn’t the best game in the world (though it had its moments) but both teams are (so far) doing better than expected after Watford struggled last season and Hull sold most of their best players.
Jonathan Bond was on the bench for Watford.

Leeds United 3-1 Millwall
Millwall did the double over Leeds last season before following them to the Championship. This season, Leeds took revenge – and got their first win of the season, while Millwall conceded their first goals. Millwall were the first to score when they took the lead through an own goal but Leeds got an equaliser before one of those annoying supersubs put Leeds into the lead late on. Then, when Millwall were pushing up for an equaliser, he got another goal. I don’t think I like him.
Sanchez Watt got the assist for Leeds’ second goal and could easily have scored too. He had a good game but what do you expect, he’s on loan from Arsenal.
Millwall’s best player was arguably another Wales-eligible forward, Steve Morison, who got the assist for Millwall.

Norwich City 2-0 Swansea City
I don’t mind seeing Swansea lose occasionally. I definitely don’t want them finishing ahead of Cardiff or anything like that. But I don’t want their Wales internationals losing confidence and today probably didn’t help. It looks like Norwich’s season could be similar to their last season. A shock defeat followed by Norwich going up and up and up… and then up in another sense.
Swansea aren’t in too much trouble yet – they’re on relegation form but they’re also mid-table. But if they carrying on playing like this, they won’t only be in trouble, they’ll be in League One next season and that would be a shame. If Cardiff do miss out on promotion again, beating Swansea twice next season should provide some small consolation but it won’t happen if they’re in League One.
Swansea did manage to keep the sheet clean for 87 minutes so they can’t have been completely awful and they could have gone ahead in the 83rd minute when they were awarded a penalty but David Cotterill’s shot was brilliantly saved. Then things got even worse. Ashley Williams cleared the ball in the wrong direction and it went into the back of the net. A winning goal for Norwich followed in the fourth minute of extra time.
Andrew Crofts played for Norwich and came close to scoring.
Neil Taylor made his Swansea debut as a half-time substitute and took lots of throw-ins, maybe he’s some sort of Welsh Rory Delap. There wasn’t any action for substitutes Joe Allen or David Cornell.