Jean-Ricner Bellegarde’s first-half thunderbolt earned Wolves their first point of the Premier League season in an entertaining 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest.French midfielder Bellegarde rifled home his first goal in over eight months, two minutes after Chris Wood has headed Forest into an early lead.Wolves survived a late VAR check after Wood’s effort was ruled out for offside, but th

Hartlepool battled to a goalless draw against Braintree after seeing goalkeeper Joel Dixon taken off injured and captain Luke Waterfall shown a red card in their Vanarama National League match at Victoria Park.The match was stopped in the 25th minute when a supporter needed medical treatment, before play resumed following a delay of around five minutes.Hartlepool were forced into a change after 33

Crewe completed a late comeback at Bromley to seal their first win of the League Two season.A quick opening saw Lewis Leigh give Bromley an early lead, the former Crewe loanee exchanging passes with Michael Cheek before firing into the roof of the net after just two minutes.Shilow Tracey had Crewe’s best chance of the first half when he ran through on goal but just as he was about to pull th

Amadou Onana and substitute Jhon Duran were on target as Aston Villa returned to winning ways with a 2-1 Premier League win at Leicester.Ollie Watkins was twice denied by Leicester goalkeeper Mads Hermansen but Villa set-piece coach Austin MacPhee saw his work pay off after Onana rounded off a well-worked move from a dangerous free-kick to give the visitors a half-time advantage.The King Power Sta

Luis Sinisterra scored in the sixth minute of stoppage time as Bournemouth left it late to come from 2-0 down and stun Everton 3-2 to put more pressure on Sean Dyche.The hosts looked to be cruising after second-half goals from Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin rewarded some fine attacking play, but it all unravelled at the death.Antoine Semenyo’s 87th minute tap-in was only Bournemouth

Grimsby made it two wins from two on home soil to start the League Two season after beating Bradford 2-1.The hosts went ahead in the 28th minute through captain Danny Rose, who swept home the loose ball from a free-kick delivery that Bradford goalkeeper Sam Walker could not claim.Grimsby then had a great chance to double their lead in the first half, but Evan Khouri blazed his shot over the bar fr

Morecambe suffered a fourth successive 1-0 league defeat as they went down to Newport at the Mazuma Stadium.Former Shrimps midfielder Aaron Wildig was gifted the only goal of the game on nine minutes when Morecambe keeper Stuart Moore cleared a backpass straight into his path and he kept his cool to slot the ball into the empty net.Courtney Baker-Richardson then wasted the chance to double the lea

Mansfield halted visiting Stockport’s 100 per cent start to the new season with a battling 1-1 draw.Stockport started confidently and good footwork from Jayden Fevrier saw him get into the box on the right after just three minutes and smash a rising shot against the underside of the bar, with the officials deciding it had not crossed the line.Instead the Stags settled and took a 22nd-minute

West Brom climbed into the Sky Bet Championship’s top two after continuing their unbeaten start to the season with a 1-0 win against Swansea at The Hawthorns.Jayson Molumby’s first goal for 16 months gave Albion a deserved lead in the first minute of time added on at the end of the first half.Carlos Corberan’s side dominated that first period and could easily have been four goals

Romaine Mundle made sure Sunderland continued their perfect start to the Sky Bet Championship season by grabbing the third in a 3-1 win over Portsmouth.The Black Cats have a 100 per cent record and, despite conceding for the first time in almost seven hours in stoppage time, they purred to victory on the south coast.Zak Swanson’s calamitous own goal, Alan Browne’s close-range effort an