League One Round-Up: Wednesday Score Seven, Mansfield Put Five Past Luton and Leicester Wait On

Thirty thousand people came to Hillsborough on Saturday and watched Sheffield Wednesday score seven. That would normally settle the argument about the round's loudest result, except Mansfield put five past a previously unbeaten Luton on Sunday, Stockport hit Wycombe for five, and Blackpool eased past Peterborough by four to go top. Forty-three goals across eleven games, and somewhere underneath the noise, a quieter story kept growing: Leicester City, three games into life in the third tier, still have not won a match.

The shape of the round

Blackpool lead on seven points, unbeaten, with Huddersfield level after two late goals at Cambridge. Behind them sit four clubs on six: Stockport and Sheffield Wednesday, separated by nothing at all on nine scored and four conceded apiece, then Mansfield and Bradford. The bottom four reads Leicester, Wycombe, Reading and Wigan, and only Wigan, with three defeats from three, have no argument with their position. Eleven games produced 43 goals and just two draws. This is not a division in a cautious mood.

Sheffield Wednesday 7-2 Bromley: Hillsborough gets an afternoon off worrying

A crowd of 30,006 watched Wednesday produce the round's most complete demolition. Callum Slattery slotted the first on seven minutes, Mason Burstow fired low past Shamal George on 31 after Jamal Lowe put him through, and Lowe added a third in the final minute of the half. Louie Barry then scored around ten seconds into the second half with a low drive, and struck again on 49 after some poor Bromley defending: 5-0, with the game not yet an hour old. Lowe's second from close range and Gabriel Otegbayo's header made it seven before Bromley salvaged what dignity was available, Victor Adeboyejo converting an 85th-minute penalty and Otegbayo putting through his own net two minutes later, an own goal that will annoy him precisely because the afternoon had been going so well. Wednesday sit fourth, level on nine scored and four conceded with the side directly above them.

Mansfield Town 5-2 Luton Town: the unbeaten record lasts 45 minutes

Luton arrived at the One Call Stadium unbeaten and were three down by half-time. Nathan Moriah-Welsh converted Jon Russell's knockdown on 17 minutes and added a thunderous second from just inside the box eleven minutes later, before Louis Reed's first-time finish from Moriah-Welsh's cross on the stroke of the interval. Russell, signed from Barnsley in July, then helped himself to a brace: a simple finish two minutes into the second half after Luton failed to clear, and a top-corner strike from Michael Smith's header on 56. Nahki Wells scored a penalty with 13 minutes to go and added another from distance in stoppage time, which changed the scoreline and nothing else. Mansfield are fifth. Luton, whose goals-against column now reads ten, have some defending to discuss.

Stockport County 5-1 Wycombe Wanderers: Edgeley Park keeps the pace

Harry Wood set the tone with two goals in seven minutes, firing Lewis Bate's pull-back into the roof of the net on 16 and finding the bottom corner from the edge of the area midway through the half. Cauley Woodrow tapped in from a corner Stockport failed to clear before the break, and Wycombe should have levelled moments later, Silko Thomas shooting straight at Ollie Whatmuff one-on-one. The miss aged badly. Kyle Wootton turned in captain Ollie Norwood's cross at the back post on 56, Jack Diamond looped a shot over Conor Hazard after a driving run, and substitute Mikael Mandron slotted the fifth from Benony Andresson's through ball a minute from time. Stockport are third on six points. Winless Wycombe are in the relegation zone.

Blackpool 4-0 Peterborough United: four goals and top spot

Bloomfield Road had already enjoyed its week before kick-off, with fan favourite Jerry Yates back at the club alongside fellow new addition Josh Earl, and the afternoon obliged the mood. Jordan Williams profited from defensive confusion on 19 minutes, Dion Charles added the second from close range sixty seconds later after Alex Bass parried, and Karoy Anderson flicked home George Honeyman's cross on 56. Yates came off the bench on 64 minutes and needed eight to tap in the fourth, which is the sort of homecoming scriptwriters get accused of overdoing. Bailey Peacock-Farrell's early save from Harry Leonard was the moment the game could have bent the other way. It did not, and Blackpool are top and unbeaten.

MK Dons 0-0 Leicester City: the wait goes on

Leicester's League One campaign is three games old and still waiting for a win, and this was the kind of afternoon that explains how. Russell Martin's side created plenty at Stadium MK: Bobby De Cordova-Reid missed the target one-on-one early, Craig MacGillivray made smart saves from Jayden Joseph and Sammy Braybrooke, Braybrooke clipped the outside of a post after another flying MacGillivray stop, and Joseph's firm strike hit the top of the bar late on. The finishing touch never came. MK Dons, who have drawn all three of their games, nearly stole it when Alex Gilbey's deflected shot was held by Jakub Stolarczyk. A crowd of 16,198 watched Leicester do almost everything except the thing that changes their table position: they are 21st, with two points.

The rest of the round

Cambridge United 1-2 Huddersfield Town

Cambridge led for barely two minutes. Debutant Ra'ees Bangura-Williams got clear on the right and picked out Zak Bradshaw to fire the U's ahead on 80 minutes, but Joe Taylor immediately drilled a fine equaliser into the bottom corner after exchanging passes with Bojan Radulovic, and then won and converted an 89th-minute penalty when Liam Bennett brought him down. Two late goals, three points, and Huddersfield sit second, level with Blackpool on seven.

Leyton Orient 1-3 Barnsley

Barnsley's first league win of the season was built on debuts and a penalty. Makenzie Kirk converted Reyes Cleary's cross on 15 minutes for a goal on his debut, captain Cameron McGeehan scored from the spot on 64 after James Morris fouled Amani Richards, and Cleary curled in the third with 14 minutes left following good work from Tyrese Noslin. Connor O'Riordan, another debutant, nearly added to the lead when his header from a corner was tipped over by Noah Phillips, and Nicholas Oyekunle broke free for a late Orient consolation, slotting past Rogan Ravenhill. Daniel Stendel called it a really good performance, and the scoreline agrees.

Notts County 2-1 Burton Albion

Meadow Lane paid tribute in the 10th minute to Quevin Castro, who represented both clubs on loan and died aged 25, and the football that followed took a while to match the occasion. Finn Delap headed Jack Armer's centre into the bottom corner on 22, and Burton held that lead until the 78th minute, when substitute Luka Smyth, signed from VPS in Finland, nodded in Nick Tsaroulla's cross for his first County goal. Five minutes later Burton captain Curtis Tilt, already booked, brought Smyth down in the box and saw red, and the 22-year-old Australian dispatched the penalty himself. Martin Paterson likened his team talk to a telling-off from a parent, and picked the gentler one: "I was more of a Mum today."

Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Bradford City

Plymouth's first League One win of the season, under Tom Cleverley, ended Bradford's winning start on a windswept Home Park. Julio Pleguezuelo, the recalled Spanish centre-back, forced the opener through a crowded goalmouth on 44 minutes after the Bantams failed to clear Oli Irow's cross, and Harvey White sealed it five minutes into the second half with a superb 25-yard strike that took a slight deflection past Jon McCracken. McCracken's brilliant diving stop from Ronan Curtis kept the score respectable. Bradford drop to sixth, still on six points.

Stevenage 2-2 Doncaster Rovers

Played through heavy showers with the ball holding up in puddles and an abandonment briefly a possibility, this one still produced four second-half goals. Josh Magennis headed in Phoenix Patterson's cross on 57, Jack Senior levelled with a superb bending shot from outside the area, Owen Bailey powered Doncaster ahead with a bullet header on 80, and Olly Sanderson scrambled Stevenage level from another corner two minutes later. Tommy Simkin's three first-half saves kept Doncaster in it. Alex Revell felt his side played some really good football at times; Grant McCann thought his kept giving the ball away. Both were right, and both sides are still waiting for a first win.

AFC Wimbledon 1-0 Wigan Athletic (Sunday)

The round's Sunday opener gave Wimbledon a first League One win of the season, and it needed patience: Myles Hippolyte poked the ball past Joe Walsh in the 88th minute after Donnell McNeilly put him through. The Dons felt they should have had a penalty when Jayden Stockley went down claiming a pull by Walsh after the keeper headed a clearance straight at him, and Sonny Perkins somehow fired over an empty net for Wigan. The Latics have lost all three without much luck changing sides, and they prop up the table on zero points.

What the third table says

Blackpool and Huddersfield on seven, four clubs on six, and the top of League One already has the look of a queue that will not shorten soon. Stockport and Sheffield Wednesday are third and fourth with identical records: nine scored, four conceded. The more instructive numbers sit lower down. Leicester have two points from three games and have scored twice all season. Luton have scored eight and conceded ten, which is an entertaining way to be 13th. And Reading and Oxford, each with a game fewer played, will reshuffle the middle of this table the moment their catch-up arrives.

Eleven games, 43 goals and two draws is not a sustainable rhythm, but it tells you how this division wants to play. The sides winning are the ones scoring in bunches: Wednesday seven, Mansfield and Stockport five, Blackpool four. In a league where a single tidy 1-0 currently counts as an outlier, the defences that learn to shut the door first will be the ones still standing upright in the spring.

Sources: BBC Sport, including PA Media match reports.