Championship: Ipswich thump Millwall to reignite promotion push

Ipswich got their Sky Bet Championship automatic promotion challenge back on track with a convincing 4-0 win at Millwall.

Nathan Broadhead headed the Tractor Boys into the lead and after Wes Harding's own goal and Kieffer Moore's header made it 3-0 at half-time.

Ali Al Hamadi scored his first Ipswich goal from the penalty spot in added time as Kieran McKenna's side climbed to within three points of second-placed Leeds after sealing their first win in four league matches.

Liam Kitching's stoppage-time free-kick salvaged Coventry a 2-2 draw at Plymouth and lifted them into the play-off places.

Kitching's effort deflected off two Plymouth defenders in the sixth minute of added time and Coventry now sit sixth, above Norwich, Hull and Preston on goal difference.

After a goalless first half, Morgan Whittaker's 17th league goal of the season was cancelled out by Ellis Simms before Plymouth regained the lead through Mickel Miller.

Sunderland missed the chance to climb back into the top six as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat at lowly Huddersfield.

Matty Pearson scored the decisive goal before the interval as the Black Cats dropped to 10th, while the Terriers' moved five points clear of the relegation zone.

Preston maintained their play-off push with a third straight league win, 2-1 at home against Middlesbrough.

Liam Millar put the Lilywhites 1-0 up at the interval and, after Finn Azaz, capped for the Republic of Ireland at U-21 level, equalised for the visitors, Emil Riis Jakobsen restored North End's lead and sealed a ninth home league win of the season.

Wouter Berger's solitary goal at the end of the first half was enough to clinch Stoke their first home win since October, 1-0 against fellow strugglers QPR, and halt a four-game losing