Aston Villa v Brentford and more: Football League clockwatch – live!

22 August 2018 05:56
Updates from the matches in the Championship and League OneLive scores: all the goals as they go in around the UK and EuropeEmail Jacob.Steinberg@theguardian.com. Tweet @JacobSteinberg 6.56pm BST Norwich v Preston teamsNorwich: Krul, Pinto, Hanley, Klose, Lewis, Tettey, Marshall, Leitner, Pukki, Hernandez, Rhodes. 6.55pm BST Aston Villa v Brentford teamsAston Villa: Nyland, Tuanzebe, Chester, Jedinak, Hutton, Elmohamady, McGinn, Whelan, Adomah, Grealish, Kodjia. 6.54pm BST Blackburn v Reading teamsBlackburn: Raya, Nyambe, Smallwood, Armstrong, Rothwell, Graham, Mulgrew, Bell, Lenihan, Evans, Bennett. 6.53pm BST Sheffield Wednesday v Millwall teamsSheffield Wednesday: Dawson, Palmer, Pelupesssy, Fletcher, Bannan, Thorniley, Lees, Matias, Reach, Preston, Penney. 4.15pm BST Given that everyone in the Championship can’t stop talking about that crazy Argentinian chap over at Elland Road, Aston Villa fans probably can’t help but wish their manager was called Steve Brucelsa. Sadly they have to make do with plain old Steve Bruce, although maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Leeds might be having a whale of a time under Marcelo Bielsa, who’s busy proving that his whirlwind brand of football can succeed at any level, but there’s more than one way to manage and Bruce has proven time and again that he’s an expert when it comes to getting a team out of this division. After a difficult start to the summer, Villa are looking good at the moment. They’ve bounced back from losing last season’s Championship final to Fulham and the outlook is considerably brighter than it was when the club were hit with some worrying financial problems in June. There’s been investment from an Egyptian consortium since then, they’ve kept Jack Grealish out of Tottenham’s clutches and a three-goal win tonight would see them knock Middlesbrough out of the automatic promotion places on goal difference and go level on points with Bielsa’s buzzing side.Aston Villa v BrentfordBlackburn v Reading Continue readingreadfullarticle

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