Championship Results 11th September 2010 Part 3

Queen’s Park Rangers 3-0 Middlesbrough
Top of the table QPR comprehensively beat the team who were expected to be top of the table, but who had won only one game in the league this season.
Danny Coyne was on the bench for Middlesbrough but Rhys Williams was out with a pelvic injury.

Reading 3-0 Crystal Palace
Reading beat Palace 3-0 but they needed two penalties in order to do it. Palace continue to struggle but they’ll have been comforted by the news that their next match was against Portsmouth.
Simon Church came off the bench after 89 minutes which was a bit late for him to show off his goalscoring prowess really. Hal Robson-Kanu was on the bench but Jake Taylor wasn’t.
Palace’s Andy Dorman was substituted at half-time. Lewis Price was an unusued substitute… but perhaps he won’t be unused for very much longer.

Scunthorpe United 0-2 Bristol City
Stop the press. Bristol City win a match! True, it’s only against Scunthorpe but you get just the same number of points as you do when you beat Queen’s Park Rangers. Not that QPR have lost a match this season so they might have changed it for all we know but I would guess they haven’t.
Bristol City’s Brett Pitman was, to my knowledge, the only even vaguely Welsh player to feature in this match. Christian Ribeiro did get into the matchday squad but he stayed on the bench. And as all Bristol City’s other Welsh players are either injured or on loan to Yeovil Town, getting two in the squad was actually pretty good.

Watford 2-2 Doncaster Rovers
A stoppage-time winner for Doncaster denied Watford their first home win of the season. Both Watford’s goals came from the same substitute – I bet Doncaster were glad he hadn’t played from the start.
John Oster and captain Brian Stock are probably both slightly short of fitness. John made only his second appearance since a knee operation while Brian missed out on Wales’ defeat to Montenegro with a back injury. Both were substituted after 79 minutes but (obviously!) not before John had provided the assist for Doncaster’s first goal.