Championship round-up: Ipswich return to the summit

Ipswich returned to the top of the Sky Bet Championship table with a 3-0 victory over Hull at Portman Road.

Wes Burns and Conor Chaplin struck from outside the box in the first half to put Ipswich in command.

Hull, who had won their three previous away games and were unbeaten in eight, fell further behind when Marcus Harness claimed the third after 65 minutes.

Ipswich have now won eight of their 10 games with only one defeat, and are a point above Leicester who play Preston on Wednesday.

West Brom moved up to fifth with a 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday to pile the pressure on beleaguered Owls manager Xisco Munoz.

John Swift's 13th-minute goal settled the match and extended Albion's unbeaten run to five games.

Wednesday remain rooted to the bottom of the table after two draws and eight defeats. It is the Owls' worst ever start to the first 10 games of a Championship season.

Cardiff dropped out of the play-off places with a 2-0 defeat at Middlesbrough.

Isaiah Jones - with his first goal in 11 months - and Emmanuel Latte Lath ensured Boro stayed upwardly mobile with a third successive league victory.

Both goals were scored in the second half, with Jones' 56th-minute opener coming just moments after Cardiff's Ollie Tanner had hit the post.

Stuart Armstrong's excellent free-kick just before the break gave Southampton a 1-0 success at Stoke.

It was Southampton's second consecutive victory and left Stoke in the lower reaches of the table.

Birmingham returned to winning ways after a terrible September with a commanding 4-1 victory over Huddersfield.

The Blues collected just two of 15 points last month, but a Siriki Dembele double and further goals from Koji Miyoshi and Jordan James secured a morale-boosting win.

Michal Helik netted