League One Round-Up: Bradford Go Top at Kenilworth Road, Huddersfield's Unbeaten Start Ends at Bromley

Bradford City's last win at Kenilworth Road was in April 1968, and the next one took four minutes to arrive. A right-wing cross was headed in by Bobby Pointon, and the 11,647 inside the ground spent the remaining 86 minutes plus stoppages watching Luton look for a way through a defence that has kept a fifth clean sheet in seven games. James Shea parried a Callum Connolly effort from 25 yards after ten minutes. Then Luton had their turn: Kasey Palmer curled wide and then shot straight at Jon McCracken, the same keeper used his feet to keep out Emilio Lawrence's low effort, and Ibou Touray sliced over from the other end.

Liam Walsh threaded Callum Marshall through and Marshall did not make the most of it, and that was the last time the first half looked open. After the break, the BBC's report says, Bradford "squeezed the life out of" Luton. The home side had 15 shots to five and 14 corners to three, and three of those 15 were on target, the same number Bradford managed. Luton's next real sight of goal came in the 90th minute, a low Gideon Kodua drive that bounced up into McCracken's arms. Deep into stoppage time Harrison Ashby, an ex-Bradford loanee, saw red for kicking out at an opponent, and Jordan Clark sent Luton's last chance wide.

Bradford are top on 15 points with five wins and two defeats and no draws at all, seven goals scored and four conceded. Graham Alexander's side had won one of their previous ten league games against Luton; that reads two of 11 now. Luton had lost one of 20 home league games before kick-off. The count is two of 21, and Luton sit 16th on eight points with a goal difference of minus two.

Huddersfield arrived at the Copperjax Community Stadium as League One's only unbeaten side, six league games without defeat at the start of a season for the first time since the 2016-17 promotion year. Bromley had lost three of the previous four, as many defeats as in their prior 30 matches put together. The 5,004 present then watched the form book go in the bin. JJ McKiernan headed in a Mitchell Pinnock corner inside ten minutes, and Marcus Harness could and probably should have levelled, only for Owen Mason to keep his effort out with the goal gaping.

Matty Young had to react sharply to a Pinnock volley two minutes before the interval, and Huddersfield equalised in first-half stoppage time anyway, Ashley Fletcher getting his head to a Cameron Humphreys free-kick. Joe Taylor was through one on one on the hour and Corey Whitely and Mason between them kept him out. Then Mickel Miller seized on a mistake 19 minutes from time and smashed a shot in from 20 yards. Mason saved from Murray Wallace in the last minute before stoppage time and Bromley held on.

The visitors had 69.4 per cent of the ball, 18 shots to five and nine corners to four, and lost. It is Bromley's first win since the season's opening day, and it lifts them to 19th on eight points with 18 goals conceded, still the most in the division. Huddersfield drop from second to fourth on 12, and the unbeaten club count in League One is now zero.

Leicester had 78.7 per cent of the possession, 20 shots to 12, 12 corners to five, and an extra man for over an hour. They left Oakwell with a point and the sound of their own supporters. Luke Thomas laid it on for Liam Cullen inside the box after seven minutes, and Cullen scored. Barnsley's afternoon got harder in the 26th when referee Sebastian Stockbridge sent Luca Connell off for a reckless challenge on Thomas.

The ten men levelled, and the BBC's report says they deserved to. Warren O'Hara's sloppy pass let Arley Kay play Reyes Cleary through in the 61st minute and the winger hammered it into the roof of the net. Barnsley defended resolutely afterwards and Patrick Kelly nearly won it in added time. At the final whistle the 4,300 who had followed Leicester to South Yorkshire booed the players and Russell Martin off.

Leicester are 13th on nine points with two wins in seven, and a goal difference of minus two. Barnsley are 18th on eight. The pre-match numbers said Barnsley had attempted the most shots in League One, 106 of them, with a conversion rate of 5.7 per cent. One from 12 on Saturday fits the pattern, and so does the fact that the one was enough.

Wimbledon's Cherry Red Records Stadium held 7,960 for Thursday night's derby, and MK Dons left it still without a League One win: six draws, one defeat, seven games. Callum Maycock was played through early by Myles Hippolyte and his effort cleared the bar. In the 11th minute Jayden Stockley's flicked header found Steve Seddon at the back post and Will Dennis produced a superb stop. The ball fell to Callum Paterson in the 32nd minute and he hit it straight at Joe Bursik.

The second half opened hotter, and Bursik was needed again, getting to Aaron Collins' cutback before Sam Nombe could. Alistair Smith's long-range strike in the 72nd minute went wide of the top corner, and Stockley could not turn a delightful delivery goalwards from close in. Both sides had 11 shots and two on target. Paul Warne told Sky Sports: "Maybe the tension of the game spoiled the game," and added that "neither team did enough to win it."

Wimbledon's clean sheet was their third in a row and their fifth in seven league games this season, and they have yet to concede at home. They finished the round seventh on 11 points with five goals scored and seven conceded, a peculiar shape for a top-half team. MK Dons are 22nd on six, the only club in the division still without a win.

Burton led by two at the Pirelli Stadium and Mansfield came back with a goal in each half. Charlie Webster's probing ball from the left of the box went in off Deji Oshilaja, the former Albion defender, past Liam Roberts in the 16th minute, and in the 28th Caylan Vickers, once a Stags loanee, looped a cross to the far post for Jack Armer to head between Roberts' legs from close range, his second goal of the season. Five minutes short of the interval Michael Smith shrugged off two defenders and turned Nathan Moriah-Welsh's cross in via the post.

Kyran Lofthouse smashed a rising drive on to the crossbar right on half-time, which is the moment Burton will replay. David McGoldrick went through with the game past the hour and Corey Addai made a superb save, and moments later Lucas Akins turned neatly inside the box and lashed the equaliser past his former club. Mansfield had 12 shots to ten and five on target to three in front of 4,685.

Burton remain unbeaten in nine EFL meetings with Mansfield, four wins and five draws, and unbeaten in eight home league games. They are 12th on nine points, Mansfield 17th on eight.

Blackpool had gone ten home league games unbeaten since mid-February, seven wins and three draws. The game before that run started was a 4-0 home defeat to Plymouth, and Plymouth ended the run too. Jordan Brown put the Seasiders ahead on the half hour with a shot that took a huge deflection, and six minutes later Oliver Irow cancelled it out, turning and finishing on instinct. Irow, on loan from Tottenham, got his second at the back post seven minutes after the restart, and Harvey White's powerful strike in the 57th minute made it three.

Jerry Yates pulled one back with 20 minutes remaining, a shot on the turn that went in off the post, and Aribim Pepple settled it a minute from time, a left-footed finish into the top corner from Ronan Curtis's pass after a fast break. Plymouth had 24 shots to ten and nine on target to four in front of 10,855 at Bloomfield Road.

That is Plymouth's third league win in a row, a run they last managed in February, and Irow has three goals from his last two appearances. Sixth before the round began, they are third after it on 13 points with 14 scored. Blackpool are 15th on eight.

Leyton Orient's first home league win of the season came from a game that had spent most of its length heading towards a stalemate. Stevenage had the best chance of a thin first half, Oliver Sanderson's 25th-minute low shot forcing Nathan Baxter into pushing it away, and Alex Revell sent on Phoenix Patterson, Matt Smith and Michael Mellon around the hour to change it.

Alex Gilbert changed it instead, getting to a loose ball in the box first and firing into the roof of the net. In added time Dan Kemp completely missed a shot from four yards, which the BBC's report says summed up Stevenage's day. The visitors had 16 shots to seven and four on target to Orient's one, and the one was the goal. The crowd at the BetWright Stadium was 7,609.

Orient's 12 league goals before kick-off had come from chances worth 6.4 expected goals, the biggest overperformance in England's top four tiers, and a one-shot-on-target win does nothing to shrink that gap. They are tenth on ten points. Stevenage, who had won their last two, are 11th on nine.

Oxford had won their last six home league meetings with Cambridge and were unbeaten in 13 home league games against them since 1992. The unbeaten run is 14 now and the winning one is over. Siriki Dembele, who did not score all last season, scored in a second successive game in the 15th minute, finishing from just inside the area after Mark Harris laid it off. Harris twice went close himself in a first half Oxford were the better side in, despite losing Jamie McDonnell to an early injury.

Cambridge started the second half strongly and were rewarded on 57 minutes when Ben Knight met Dominic Ball's cutback with a clean left foot and put it low into the corner. Cathal Heffernan and Shayne Lavery both went close to putting the visitors ahead before Oxford finished strongly, Jake Eastwood pushing away Tyler Goodrham's header with one hand to his right. Oxford had 65.7 per cent of the ball and five shots on target to two in front of 10,474.

Cambridge are fifth on 12 points. Oxford are sixth on 11 with a game in hand on everyone above them, and a conversion rate that was the best in the division before kick-off, 12 goals from a joint-lowest 57 shots.

Doncaster went to the Weston Homes Stadium without a league win this season and came home with their first, and Peterborough managed 14 shots without putting one of them on target. Owura Edwards headed wide from the back post early on and the hosts had shaded the opening exchanges, so Alfie May's goal after 15 minutes came against the flow: a mistake from the Posh youngster Harley Mills, a cross from Leon Ayinde, and May slotting home.

Sean Grehan made a mess of his contact on Robbie Gotts' corner with the goal there to double the lead, then flung himself into the path of an Edwards shot at the other end. After the break the Doncaster defence was quick out to block Carl Johnston and Mills, and Harry Leonard's effort was rebuffed too. Doncaster had two shots in the second half when Isaac Hutchinson and Jordan Thomas, both substitutes, put it together in the 88th minute, Thomas crossing and Hutchinson sliding in to tap it home.

Doncaster had been one winless round away from a third seven-game winless start this century, the others being 2011-12 and 2023-24, and they avoided it. They are 21st on six points. Peterborough have one win from seven and four goals, drop to 23rd on five, and have now lost four league games in a row against Yorkshire sides since beating Rotherham 5-0 in March.

Jack Marriott headed both goals, one from a Haydon Roberts cross four minutes into the second half and one from a delicate Kyreece Lisbie chip to the far post in the 72nd minute, and Reading had a third straight home win in front of 12,049. The first half was low key. Nick Tsaroulla's well-struck free-kick flew narrowly over the crossbar for County early on, and Reading emerged slowly, a Marriott header from close in blocked near the line and Lewis Wing's tame effort straight at James Belshaw.

Marriott stooped to nod in the opener and almost added a second soon after, Belshaw producing a spectacular stop from a fierce Marriott shot, before Lisbie came inside from the right and chipped the second on to his head. Randell Williams hit the bar late as Reading looked for a third. The shots on target read seven to two.

The second was Marriott's eighth goal of the season. Reading had won two of their previous 11 League One games, both of them at home in the last two, and it is three of 12 now, all three at the Select Car Leasing Stadium. They are eighth on ten points from six games with 14 scored. Notts County are 20th on seven, and this was the clubs' first league meeting since February 2002.

Hillsborough held 32,290 and the leaders gave them six shots to look at. Stockport had 18. Harry Wood blazed over from a fine position early on after Joe Lumley had palmed it to him, and Ryan Glover headed Ben Osborn's cross against a post, with Jack Diamond's follow-up blocked. Wednesday's only first-half effort on goal was a Mason Burstow header, which Oliver Whatmuff took without fuss.

Harry Gray, on as a substitute, had a go from distance soon after arriving and the shot was straight at Whatmuff. Jason Adigun pulled a shot wide of Lumley's left post, and Glover's header cleared the bar by a little. The BBC's report calls the Owls lacklustre and credits them with no real opportunity of note, and the two shots on target apiece are about as generous as the numbers get.

Wednesday started the day top and finished it second on 14 points, a point behind Bradford. Stockport, who had scored more goals than anyone in the division before kick-off with 16, are ninth on ten. They have now lost one of their last six visits to Hillsborough.

The Brick Community Stadium held a minute's applause before kick-off for Kevin Miller, Wigan's goalkeeping coach, who died this week aged 57. Wycombe's Jayden Wareham, a colleague of Miller's at Exeter last season, laid a wreath behind a goal. Then a first half with almost nothing in it, and a penalty appeal at the start of the second when Fraser Murray fell in the box and the referee was unmoved.

The goal came with 22 minutes left. Cauley Woodrow created it and Dan Casey headed in from close range, leaving Joe Whitworth no chance. Wigan sent on five attackers over the second half and the closest they came was a Connor Barrett shot that cleared the bar. Twelve shots, two on target, no goals, against a managerless Wycombe side that had conceded 14 in six games and had never let in more across the opening six games of an EFL season.

Wigan have five league goals from chances worth 11.4 expected goals, an underperformance of 6.4 that was already the largest in England's top four tiers before this, and they are back at the foot of the table on four points. Wycombe are unbeaten in six against Wigan with a clean sheet in every one, and sit 14th on nine.