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Championship: Hull remain top [Sky Sports News]



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Sam Clucas celebrates his goal in Hull's 3-0 win over Middlesbrough

Hull defeated fellow promotion hopefuls Middlesbrough 3-0 to retain their place at the top of the Sky Bet Championship.
Mohamed Diame gave Steve Bruce's side the lead a minute before half-time before Sam Clucas and Tom Huddlestone added further goals after the break to seal the win.
Brighton leapfrogged Burnley into second spot and are level on 34 points with Hull after they defeated MK Dons 2-1 at the AMEX Stadium, with all the goals coming in the first half.
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Highlights of Hull's 3-0 win over Middlesbrough in the Sky Bet Championship.

Solly March and Jamie Murphy gave the Seagulls a two-goal lead after just 19 minutes and despite Nicky Maynard pulling one back soon afterwards, Chris Hughton's side held on to secure the victory.
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Highlights of Brighton's 2-1 win over MK Dons in the Sky Bet Championship.

Burnley extended their unbeaten league run to seven games with a hard-fought goalless draw with Wolves at Molineux but the point saw them them slip out of the automatic promotion places.
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Highlights of Wolves' 0-0 draw with Burnley in the Sky Bet Championship.

Defeats for Boro and Derby - who went down 1-0 to local rivals Nottingham Forest on Friday - allowed sixth-placed Birmingham to close the gap on the pair to two points.
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Highlights of Fulham's 5-2 win over Birmingham in the Sky Bet Championship.

City thrashed Fulham 5-2 in west London, the hosts 3-0 down by half-time courtesy of goals from Stephen Gleeson, Paul Caddis from the penalty spot and Jon Toral before James Husband was sent off for a second bookable offence early in the second period.
Clayton Donaldson and Viv Soloman-Otabor added late goals for the visitors, with Fulham's responses coming from Alex Kacaniklic and Ross McCormack when the hosts were 3-0 and 4-1 down.
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Highlights of Ipswich's 5-2 win over Rotherham in the Sky Bet Championship.

Ipswich also enjoyed a 5-2 victory, with Daryl Murphy - last season's golden-boot winner with 27 goals - scoring a hat-trick against Rotherham at the New York Stadium.
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Ipswich striker Daryl Murphy scored a hat-trick in the 5-2 thrashing of Rotherham

Brett Pitman and Jonathan Douglas had earlier put Mick McCarthy's side 2-0 up, with Rotherham briefly threatening an unlikely comeback with quickfire goals from Brandon Barker and Matt Derbyshire just before the hour, before Murphy came to the fore.
Cardiff climbed above Reading into seventh place with a 2-0 win, Kenwyne Jones and Matthew Connolly on the mark with headers.
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Highlights of Cardiff's 2-0 win over Reading in the Sky Bet Championship.

Charlton were celebrating their first victory since August after beating Sheffield Wednesday 3-1, the Owls' first league defeat in 10 outings.
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Highlights of Charlton's 3-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday in the Sky Bet Championship.

The Addicks had taken just two points from their previous 12 games but goals from Johnnie Jackson, Simon Makienok and Reza Ghoochannej helped them end that poor run and move to within one point of safety.
Leeds recorded back-to-back wins for the first time this season after beating Huddersfield 3-0 in the West Yorkshire derby in the lunchtime kick-off.
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Highlights of Leeds' 3-0 win over Huddersfield in the Sky Bet Championship.

Mirco Antenucci and Chris Wood both scored in first-half stoppage time before Alex Mowatt fired in a third after the break.
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Highlights of Blackburn's 1-1 draw with Brentford in the Sky Bet Championship.

Blackburn and Brentford shared the points in a 1-1 draw at Ewood Park, Tom Lawrence cancelling out Lasse Vibe's goal for the visitors, while Preston recorded a sixth successive clean sheet in drawing 0-0 at QPR.
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Highlights of QPR's 0-0 draw with Preston in the Sky Bet Championship.

It was also scoreless between fellow strugglers Bolton and Bristol City, with Shola Ameobi seeing a second-half penalty saved by City 'keeper Frank Fielding.
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Highlights of Bolton's 0-0 draw with Bristol City in the Sky Bet Championship.


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