Portsmouth win late at Fratton Park as Norwich end losing run
Portsmouth beat Millwall 2-1 at Fratton Park in Championship action on 24 October 2026 after Thomas Waddingham’s fortunate late strike; Norwich recovered from an early deficit to win 3-1 at Charlton and halt a six-match losing streak.
Waddingham’s 82nd-minute winner — a Jake Cooper clearance that ricocheted off him and into the net — decided an error-strewn contest in which Jenson Metcalfe had put Millwall ahead following a mistake from Portsmouth goalkeeper Nicolas Schmid before Lyndon Dykes’s own goal levelled the scores. Portsmouth have won three of their last four matches while Millwall have taken six points from their last seven games. At Bramall Lane Sheffield United drew 1-1 with 10-man Derby; Bobby Clark gave Derby a first-half lead and Patrick Bamford levelled in the 79th minute but went off after falling awkwardly.
In the match at Fratton Park Jenson Metcalfe’s early strike arrived after a Schmid error, Lyndon Dykes’s own goal produced the equaliser, and the game was settled in the 82nd minute when Jake Cooper’s attempted clearance came off Thomas Waddingham and into the net.
Sheffield United’s draw with Derby saw Bobby Clark open the scoring in the first half before Patrick Bamford struck in the 79th minute to restore parity; Bamford left the field injured in the act of scoring. Derby were reduced to 10 men and the match finished 1-1 at Bramall Lane.
Norwich’s 3-1 comeback at Charlton began with Charlie Kelman firing Charlton into an early lead, Paris Maghoma pulling Norwich level, Mathias Kvistgaarden putting the visitors ahead and an Ivan Mesik own goal wrapping up the victory. It was Chalton’s first defeat at The Valley this season and they are now without a victory in nine Championship matches.
In League One Callum Marshall scored a stoppage-time winner as Luton beat Leicester 2-1, a result that the report says heaped more pressure on Leicester manager Russell Martin. Luton had taken the lead after 39 minutes when Jordan Clark dispossessed Caleb Okoli and teed up Nakhi Wells, Liam Cullen equalised five minutes after John Lundstram had seen red, and Marshall struck in the fourth minute of added time; Lundstram received a second yellow for a lunging tackle on Isaiah Jones with five minutes remaining.
Huddersfield maintained their promotion push with a 2-1 win over rock-bottom Wigan as Ilias Bronkhorst and Derensili Sanches Fernandes scored for the Terriers and Christian Saydee replied late. The win put Huddersfield top, ahead of Stockport, who play Notts County on Saturday afternoon. On Friday Middlesbrough beat Bolton 5-1 with Will Lankshear scoring twice; Aidan Morris, Lankshear and a Lewis Brunt own goal before half-time put Middlesbrough in control in what the report describes as their 10th successive win over their hosts in a run stretching back to 2014, Thelonius Bair replied for Bolton in stoppage-time of the first half, Amario Cozier-Duberry made the points safe after 73 minutes, and Lankshear added a fifth five minutes later to record his 11th league goal. Cheltenham beat Newport 1-0 through an early Charlie McCann strike and goalkeeper Wyll Stanway produced a penalty save to preserve the victory; Northampton climbed out of the relegation zone with a 2-0 win over Colchester via Matty Warhurst and Sam Hoskins, and Swindon’s derby at Bristol Rovers finished goalless.
The Middlesbrough victory left them top overnight, but they will be deposed if Swansea or West Ham win on Saturday afternoon; the Swans are at ninth-placed QPR, while the Hammers — who won in south Wales last weekend — host a Southampton side who would be fourth but for their Spygate points deduction.