Championship round-up: Dunne hits QPR winner, Leicester lose

Ipswich kept their automatic promotion bid on track after Conor Chaplin's 13th goal of the season gave them a 1-0 win at Blackburn that sent the Tractor Boys top of the Championship table.

Buoyed by Leicester’s defeat in the early kick-off, Kieran McKenna’s men flew out of the traps and made their early dominance count through Chaplin’s well-worked goal, though Blackburn’s Aynsley Pears ought to have done better.

But this barely told the story of the game as the struggling hosts, still looking for their first win under John Eustace, were more than a match and will feel aggrieved that they had goals in either half contentiously ruled out.

The league’s top scorer Sammie Szmodics missed a glorious chance 11 minutes from time, but Ipswich dug in admirably to notch their eighth win in nine.

Anis Mehmeti's brilliant strike put another dent in Leicester’s stuttering promotion bid.

The Bristol City winger accepted a square ball from Mark Sykes on the edge of the box and sent a sweet left-footed shot into the roof of the net in the 73rd minute to earn his side a 1-0 victory at Ashton Gate.

Leicester had arrived looking to reignite their promotion push after just one win in five Championship games but paid for missed chances, with Jamie Vardy twice denied by outstanding Max O’Leary saves.

Fourth-placed Southampton missed the chance to close the gap on the Foxes after a 90th-minute equaliser from Middlesbrough’s Emmanuel Latte Lath cancelled out Adam Armstrong’s early opener in a 1-1 draw.

Sixth-placed Norwich came from behind to beat lowly Plymouth 2-1. Arygle had led through Morgan Whittaker’s 10th-minute opener but Josh Sargent equalised before an own goal from Ashley Phillips in the 74th minute.

Coventry and Preston both kept alive