Devante Rodney helped condemn former club Hartlepool to a third successive National League defeat as Rochdale left the north-east with a 3-0 victory.The home side were first to muster a meaningful attempt when Joe Grey’s shot was blocked before Nicky Featherstone sent the rebound just off target from 20 yards.Kairo Mitchell headed over from Tobi Adebayo-Rowling’s cross before Jake Burg

Chris Maguire struck 10 minutes from time as Eastleigh claimed a 2-2 draw at home to Woking in the Vanarama National League.Eastleigh took the lead in the 18th minute thanks to Tyrese Shade, who collected the ball from Lloyd Humphries before thumping an effort across Will Jaaskelainen and into the far corner.Woking, though, struck either side of half-time, drawing level when Lewis Walker tapped in

A Tristan Abrahams goal and a Shawn McCoulsky penalty saw Maidenhead beat fellow National League strugglers Ebbsfleet 2-1.Nathan Ferguson headed wide from Reece Smith’s early free-kick with the home side starting on the front foot, but goalkeeper Craig Ross had to be in the right place at the right time at the other end to deal with Dominic Poleon’s close-range shot.Maidenhead keeper M

Ben Radcliffe and Owen Oseni scored as Gateshead returned to winning ways with a 2-0 National League victory over Boston.Boston served early warning when Jacob Hazel fired into the side-netting and Tony Weston shot just wide, but Radcliffe smashed the hosts, who had lost their two previous games, into a 16th-minute lead as they responded to the early pressure.Oseni, who had earlier seen penalty ap

Josh Walker struck a late equaliser as Southend snatched a 1-1 draw at Wealdstone following a dramatic ending at Grosvenor Vale.The hosts were poised to end a five-match winless run when Callum McFarlane broke the deadlock by heading home in the first minute of added time.But Wealdstone were cruelly denied only a second Vanarama National League win of the season.Walker, a summer signing from Burto

Nicke Kabamba netted the only goal as National League leaders Barnet beat 10-man Aldershot.Kabamba was on target for the second successive game, nodding in Bailey Hobson’s cross at the back post in the 26th minute to earn the Bees a fourth successive win.Worse was to follow for Aldershot, who are without a win in five, when captain Aaron Jones was sent off for a challenge on Idris Kanu five

Blackpool continued their winning league start under new manager Steve Bruce with a 2-0 victory at his former club Huddersfield.The Seasiders scored with the only two clear-cut chances created by either side in the first half, with Kyle Joseph powering a header home after CJ Hamilton got the better of Herbie Kane to cross from the left.A sloppy pass from Ben Wiles gifted Dom Ballard the ball insid

Altrincham ended Dagenham’s three-game winning run with a 2-1 home victory.Alty were ahead inside the first minute when Lewis Banks’ cutback was fired home by Regan Linney.Dagenham equalised from the penalty spot five minutes before half-time when Josh Umerah was brought down by Ethan Ross and Dion Pereira slotted home his seventh goal of the season.Frank Vincent saw a deflected 30-yar

Manchester City survived a late scare to get back to winning ways after Sunday’s draining draw against Arsenal with a 2-1 defeat of Watford in the Carabao Cup.First-half goals from Jeremy Doku and Matheus Nunes ultimately proved enough for a much-changed side to reach the fourth round at the expense of their Championship opponents at the Etihad Stadium.Watford goalkeeper Jonathan Bond preven

Enzo Maresca made 11 changes to his Chelsea line-up for the visit of Barrow in the Carabao Cup third round, but a fine start to the Italian’s Stamford Bridge tenure was never at risk of being derailed as Christopher Nkunku’s hat-trick secured a 5-0 romp over the League Two side.The Blues were three goals up and out of sight inside half an hour with Joao Felix the ring leader in an over