League One Round-Up: Leicester Edge a Seven-Goal Game, Wilshere Sees Red

Leicester City have not looked comfortable in League One for a single afternoon, and they were not comfortable at Edgeley Park either. They were, however, three goals clear with 38 minutes left, which turned out to be exactly enough. Stockport County scored twice more and found nothing with the rest.

Liam Cullen controlled a Louis Page pass and fired into the bottom corner after 11 minutes. Jack Diamond levelled on 22, running on to Lewis Bate's pass for his fourth goal of the season. Then Page found Emil Riis on the half-hour and Riis dinked it over the onrushing Ollie Whatmuff. Three minutes after the break Riis cut in from the left and smashed one in from distance. Moments later John Lundstram, on his debut, headed in Page's corner unmarked. Page had a hand in three of the four.

Stockport's reply was quick and it was not quite enough. Ollie Norwood scored a cleverly taken free-kick on 57 and Kyle Wootton tapped in on 61, on his 200th appearance for the club, and for half an hour Edgeley Park had a 4-3 game to shout at. The home side finished with 18 shots to Leicester's nine and eight corners to one. Jimmy McNulty's team have now won three and lost three of their opening six.

Russell Martin has two wins in six since Leicester dropped out of the Championship, and a goal difference of minus two to go with them. The pressure does not lift on numbers like that. It lifts, briefly, on a Saturday when your centre-forward scores twice and your debutant scores from a corner.

Thursday night at the SPORTA Arena settled very little and unsettled a great deal. Dan Kemp burst on to a loose ball after 23 minutes and guided a finish past Josh Keeley. The Luton bench were incensed that Dan Phillips had not been penalised for a challenge on Liam Walsh in the build-up, and whatever Jack Wilshere said next was enough for referee Andrew Humphries to send him off. Luton's manager watched the rest of it from the dressing room.

Josh Magennis made it two on 70, bundling in a Ben Broggio cross from close range. BBC Sport's live reporting noted that Magennis looked clearly offside and that the flag stayed down. Kasey Palmer gave Luton something back five minutes later with a shot that deflected in off his own team-mate Mads Andersen. After that Stevenage did the unglamorous thing that decides nights like this: they dropped deep, collected the yellow cards, and let seven minutes of added time run out.

Luton had 70.4 per cent of the ball and put two of their ten shots on target. Stevenage had 29.6 per cent and put three of nine on target. Possession only ever describes who held the ball, never who did anything with it, and on Thursday Luton held a great deal of nothing.

George Pratt is Bradford-born, on loan from Blackburn Rovers, and had never scored in the EFL before Saturday. He chose Meadow Lane, a crowd of 12,511 and the 52nd minute, and he arrowed it into the bottom corner from 20 yards.

Notts County had been the better side in the first half. Hindolo Mustapha, on loan from Crystal Palace, intercepted a pass from Pratt in the fifth minute and flicked a shot past Jon McCracken, only for Callum Connolly to clear off the line. Rory Finneran drove wide on the counter. Nick Tsaroulla curled a free-kick over the bar. Antoni Sarcevic firing straight at James Belshaw was most of what Bradford managed before the interval.

Bradford took the second half instead. After Pratt's goal, Kayden Jackson found the side-netting, Jake Beesley went close from Josh Neufville's cross, and Belshaw used his legs to keep out substitute Nick Powell. Graham Alexander's side have four wins from six and no draws at all, which is a strange route to third place and a perfectly effective one. Notts County's unbeaten start is over at five games.

Wycombe Wanderers sacked Michael Duff and then won a football match, which is the sequence every board hopes for. Tom Hounsell, in interim charge, took his side to Leyton Orient and left with the club's first League One win of the season.

Jayden Wareham punished a heavy touch by Isaac Hayden on 13 minutes. Orient were level on 37 when Yusuf Akhamrich's cross was turned into his own net by Jack Grimmer. Fred Onyedinma flicked a header off the post and in at 45+2, and Daniel Harvie headed home Aaron Morley's corner two minutes after the restart. Three-one down with 43 minutes left is a position Orient have the players to attack, and they did.

They pulled one back on 52. The archived BBC key events credit that goal to Kabia with an assist from Akhamrich; the PA match report calls it an excellent solo run and finish by Akhamrich. The two sources disagree and we have not resolved it, so the goal timeline for this fixture is withheld below. What is not in dispute: Conor Hazard tipped an Armando Dobra effort over the bar, Orient had 13 shots to Wycombe's 16, and the equaliser never arrived.

Doncaster Rovers had 22 shots, nine of them on target, and 60.2 per cent of the ball at the Cherry Red Records Stadium. They lost to a free-kick.

Myles Hippolyte curled it into the top-left corner in the 43rd minute, against the run of play and beyond argument. Before that, Jack Senior had fired wide from a Leon Ayinde cutback and forced Josef Bursik down low in the 15th minute, and Owen Bailey had tapped in a free-kick delivery on 19 only for referee Elliott Swallow to find a foul in the build-up.

The second half was the same match played with more urgency. Bursik tipped Senior's half-volley over on the stroke of half-time, denied him from close range after the restart, turned an Isaac Hutchinson free-kick around the post, and watched Jordan Thomas curl over. Doncaster are bottom of League One on three points with no wins from six. They are also, on Saturday's evidence, not far from the afternoon that changes that.

Bromley had lost three in a row and shipped 14 goals doing it. They went to Bloomfield Road, fell behind twice and levelled twice.

Albie Morgan's 10th-minute free-kick found its way through the wall. It did not stay ahead for long: a corner to the back post was met by captain Omar Sowunmi, who headed it back across goal for Victor Adeboyejo to nod in on 18. Tom Bloxham turned home a Finley Munroe cross just before the interval, and ten minutes after the break JJ McKiernan's free-kick deflected in off Jordan Brown, a goal that belongs to the scoresheet rather than to anybody in particular.

Ian Evatt's side had 64.3 per cent of the ball, 18 shots and 12 corners, and got four shots on target out of all of it. Bromley had eight on target from 15. Andy Woodman said he was chuffed with the point. Evatt called the afternoon self-inflicted, and 12 corners producing four shots on target rather supports him.

Reading controlled the first half at the Cledara Abbey Stadium and led it. Cambridge United won the second half with two headers from two defenders, and that was the afternoon.

Jack Marriott put Reading ahead on 38, swivelling to finish his sixth of the season after Cambridge failed to deal with a floated Lewis Wing ball into the box. Udoka Godwin-Malife and George Earthy had both had shots blocked before it.

Liam Bennett scored with a looping header from Callum Perry's cross on 52. Kell Watts nodded in on 62, after a corner was cleared to Pelly Ruddock-Mpanzu and came back as a cross. Kyreece Lisbie shot wide before Cambridge took the lead and rattled a post moments after they had. Reading had 19 shots to Cambridge's 11 and lost anyway. Cambridge are fourth.

MK Dons have played six League One games and drawn five of them. Peterborough United have played six and won one. Saturday at Stadium MK disturbed neither fact.

Aaron Collins put the home side ahead on 29 in the least dignified way available to him: Callum Paterson's cross deflected on to the crossbar, and Collins scored the rebound via both posts. Will Dennis, making his debut in the MK Dons goal, had already denied Harry Leonard and Evan Weir, and Sam Nombe had a shot deflected wide.

Alex Bass made a big save to deny Dan Crowley before the break and a fingertip one to deny Collins' cross-shot after it, and then Crowley blazed over from a good position. All of that mattered on 85 minutes, when substitute Chris Conn-Clarke sent in a cross that eluded everybody and went straight in. Peterborough have scored four goals in six games, fewer than anyone else in the division. One of them was a cross.

Owen Dodgson came on at half-time at the One Call Stadium and was sent off less than two minutes later, a straight red for a late lunging tackle on Derensili Sanches Fernandes. Mansfield Town played the rest of the game with ten men and did not concede.

Huddersfield had 19 shots and put two of them on target. That is close to the whole review of their afternoon. Ashley Fletcher should have headed them in front on 63 after finding space, Liam Roberts palmed away a close-range Harness shot, and Ilias Bronkhorst and Cameron Humphreys both went close late without ever worrying the scoreline.

The opening ten minutes had been cagey and the half never got much beyond that. Michael Smith failed to reach Nathan Moriah-Welsh's cross, Bojan Radaluvic hit the side-netting, Stephen McLaughlin skied one from distance and Roberts saved comfortably from Joe Taylor. Clough called it as good a point as Mansfield will get all season. Huddersfield are the only side in League One yet to lose a game, and they have drawn three of their six.

Oxford United had 65.4 per cent of the ball and nothing whatsoever to show for it for 75 minutes. Then they scored three times in 18, four of which were added on at the end.

Tyler Goodrham released Mo Missanga with his first touch, and Missanga, who is 18, cut the ball back for Siriki Dembele to shoot high into the net from seven yards on 76. Peter Kioso hit the bar moments later. Substitute Louie Sibley made it two with a left-footed finish from 20 yards on 90, and fellow substitute Gatlin O'Donkor added a third in added time.

Burton Albion will think about what came before all that. Simon Eastwood saved with his legs from William Collar in the first half and turned aside Charlie Webster's effort that was heading for the top-right corner in the second. Raphael Borges Rodrigues shot just past the post after a surging run from Kyran Lofthouse. Oxford are fifth with a game in hand on most of the division, and 3-0 is a scoreline that tells you almost nothing about this one.

Oli Irow scored inside the first minute at Home Park and Plymouth Argyle never had to chase the game again. The winger, on loan from Tottenham, latched on to a ball out to the left from Julio Pleguezuelo, cut inside Tyrese Noslin and hit a right-footed shot into the top corner past Rogan Ravenhill.

Noslin had the chance to answer it on 20, and smashed the ball inches wide from just inside the area. Moments later Ravenhill failed to hold a long throw from the Argyle captain Wes Harding, and Ronan Curtis headed into an unguarded net for his first of the season. Curtis nearly had a second, and Connor O'Riordan cleared the looping header off the line.

Pepple made it three on 50, spinning O'Riordan on the left of the box and curling into the far corner. Barnsley had 15 shots and put none of them on target. None. Plymouth had seven, put four on target and scored three. Cleverley called it a significant moment for his side, and sixth place in the middle of September suggests he is allowed to.

A crowd of 30,725 at Hillsborough watched the league leaders fail to score against the club that had arrived bottom of the division.

Both teams hit a post. Mason Burstow burst clear on the right in the opening minutes and struck the near one. Joe Whitworth beat away Kieran Morrison's shot and later stuck out a leg to keep out Yan Valery, who had already put a glancing header wide. At the other end Joe Lumley got down smartly at his near post to save a low effort from Reggie Walsh.

Wednesday's let-off came just before the hour, when Jensen Weir's shot came back off a post and Walsh could not steer the rebound on target. Substitute Harry Gray fired over from a good position deep into added time. Sheffield Wednesday had 58.9 per cent of the ball and three shots on target from 12, and they stay top on 13 points with four wins, one defeat and now one draw. Wigan leave with a point and 23rd place, which is one better than the position they came in.