Watford lifted the pressure on Alessio Dionisi and quelled their supporters’ rebellion against the owner, Gino Pozzo, with a deserved 2-0 win against a sluggish Charlton. After shipping nine goals in calamitous defeats by Burnley and Cardiff, Watford had slumped into the bottom three and the fans had turned their anger on Pozzo. But goals from Luca Kjerrumgaard and the substitute Jordan Zemura – the Zimbabwe defender’s first for the club – extended Charlton’s worrying run to eight games without a win as they were booed off at Vicarage Road.
Despite the mood of insurrection swirling around Pozzo on social media, protests against his 14-year ownership outside the ground before kick-off were limited and Watford kept their first clean sheet in 210 days with their second win in three months. Jake Cooper’s scrambled equaliser rescued a point for Millwall as they came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with Lincoln. The visitors were on course to put Wednesday’s 6-0 home thrashing against West Ham behind them when goals from Andrei Coubiș and Rob Street put them in a strong position after 33 minutes at the Den.
There was controversy around the second goal, though, as what looked a clear handball by Reeco Hackett in the buildup was missed by the assistant stood close by. Millwall were able to prevent back-to-back home defeats with a much-improved second-half performance and the visitors were hanging on after having Deji Elerewe sent off soon after Cooper’s leveller. Kyrell Lisbie had scored Millwall’s first.
Will Lankshear stepped off the bench to inspire Middlesbrough’s stirring second-half fightback in their 2-2 draw with 10-man Cardiff at the Riverside. The Bluebirds stunned the home side in the first half and led 2-0 at the interval after goals from Jack Moylan and Ollie Tanner. Lankshear, the Championship’s top scorer, was surprisingly rested, but the striker was brought on by Kim Hellberg at half-time and within 16 minutes of his introduction Boro were level.
Tommy Conway halved the deficit before Lankshear struck his 11th goal of the season in all competitions. Cardiff went down to 10 men with seven minutes to play when Gabriel Osho was given a straight red card for a reckless tackle on Lankshear, but Boro – now unbeaten in nine league games – could not force a winner. In the pick of the 3pm BST kick-offs, Swansea are at home to West Ham in a meeting of the teams in first and third.
Birmingham, in fourth, host fifth-placed QPR, while bottom-placed Preston are at Wrexham.
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