Sky Bet Championship round-up
Review and updated odds from Saturday's action in the Sky Bet Championship.
Sky Bet Championship results
Burton 0-0 Bristol
Cardiff 3-2 Birmingham
Hull 4-3 Norwich
Ipswich 0-0 Sheff Utd
Middlesbrough 3-1 Barnsley
Millwall 1-0 Brentford
Preston 1-2 Fulham
QPR 1-0 Sunderland
Reading 2-2 Leeds
Sheff Wed 1-1 Bolton
Aston Villa 4-1 Wolves
Cardiff continued to pile the pressure on Sky Bet Championship leaders Wolves with a 3-2 victory over relegation-threatened Birmingham.
The Bluebirds had a sixth straight win wrapped up by half-time thanks to goals from Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Craig Bryson and Callum Patterson.
Birmingham reduced the deficit early in the second half through Craig Gardner's penalty and Maxime Colin scored a second deep into stoppage time but Cardiff held on to move back to within three points of Wolves, who were roundly thumped 4-1 at Aston Villa.
Diogo Jota cancelled out Albert Adomah's opener to send the local rivals in level at the break, but two goals in five minutes around the hour mark changed the game in Villa's favour.
First, James Chester scrambled home before Lewis Grabban got on the end of a pass from Adomah to put Wolves on the brink of a second away defeat in three.
Sky Bet still make Wolves firm favourites for the title, but at 1/8 they're as big as they've been for some time with Cardiff 8/1.
That was confirmed late on when Birkir Bjarnason struck from range to help Villa climb into third, ahead of fourth-placed Fulham, who won 2-1 at Preston.
Aleksandar Mitrovic continued his stunning start to life in London with both goals as the Cottagers snatched a vital victory at their play-off-chasing rivals.
The on-loan Newcastle striker opened the scoring on 69 minutes and made it seven goals in five games in stoppage time to stretch Fulham's unbeaten run to 15 matches.
Preston had equalised 15 minutes from time through Sean Maguire but they were unable to halt the Fulham juggernaut as they slipped four points adrift of the top six.
Sky Bet make Fulham 10/11 for promotion, with Preston out to 22/1.
Middlesbrough consolidated their place in the play-off spots with a third successive victory to deepen Barnsley's relegation fears.
Daniel Ayala set sixth-placed Boro on their way in the first minute before in-form pair Adama Traore and Patrick Bamford put the hosts in full control.
Kieffer Moore got one back for Barnsley but the 3-1 defeat sees them remain a place above the bottom three and 9/4 for relegation.
Bristol City and Sheffield United lost ground on the top six following goalless draws at Burton and Ipswich respectively.
Millwall leapfrogged Brentford and stretched their unbeaten run to 11 games as George Saville scored in the first minute for the second time this week.
His previous such effort came on Tuesday against Hull, who on Saturday eased their relegation fears in thrilling fashion with a 4-3 victory over Norwich in a manic match.
Jackson Irvine put the Tigers in front early on but they found themselves 3-1 down with half-time approaching after James Maddison scored a second penalty to complete his hat-trick.
Abel Hernandez netted a spot-kick either side of the break to level the scores before Harry Wilson earned Hull a memorable win.
⚽️ Six goals
— Sporting Life (@SportingLife) March 10, 2018
🙈 FOUR penalties!
Eventful afternoon for referee Tim Robinson in #HCAFC v #NCFC... pic.twitter.com/I0mGWBsPJM
Sunderland remain rock bottom and 1/9 for the drop after Eberechi Eze netted the only goal to ensure QPR took advantage of goalkeeper Jason Steele's red card just after half-time.
Aaron Wilbraham's stoppage-time header earned lowly Bolton a 1-1 draw at Sheffield Wednesday, who thought they had sealed the points through George Boyd's 78th-minute strike.
Leeds appeared to be on course for a morale-boosting win at Reading only to draw 2-2 following Eunan O'Kane's own goal.
Pontus Jansson and Pablo Hernandez had scored either side of the break to cancel out Jon Dadi Bodvarsson's opener.
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