Haji Wright scored the winner for the second time in three days as league leaders Coventry beat Millwall 2-1 at the CBS Arena.
Wright scored an 85th-minute goal against Leicester on Saturday and notched his 10th goal of the season as Coventry made it back-to-back victories.
On-loan Crystal Palace winger Romain Esse opened his account for the Sky Blues against former club Millwall before Mihailo Ivanovic scored a brilliant equaliser before the half-hour mark.
Frank Lampard's men extended their lead over third place to nine points as Ipswich leapfrogged Middlesbrough into second in the Sky Bet Championship thanks to a brace from Jack Clarke which helped the Tractor Boys to make it four league wins on the trot after downing play-off chasers Bristol City 2-0 at Portman Road.
Meanwhile, Liam Millar scored against his former side before Oli McBurnie rounded off Hull's thumping 3-0 win over Preston in style.
The 26-year-old Millar was on loan with the Lilywhites from Basel during the 2023-24 season and he opened the scoring with a 33rd-minute tap-in.
Defender Akin Famewo doubled the lead just before half-time with a well-taken second before McBurnie acrobatically put the icing on the cake, bagging his 10th league goal of the season in the 53rd minute.
A late red card for Milutin Osmajic, following a scuffle with John Lundstram, simply rubbed salt in the wounds for Paul Heckingbottom.
Jannik Vestergaard's 90th minute equaliser denied Wrexham a win that would have put them within a whisker of the play-off places as Leicester held them to a 1-1 draw.
Lewis O’Brien had fired Wrexham in front in the 63rd minute, no less than they deserved for a dominant second-half display in which Leicester rarely managed to break out of their own half. However, Vestergaard scored at the end with only the Foxes’ second shot after the break.
Derby boosted their own play-off ambitions with a rare win in London, 2-1 at lowly Charlton.
Macaulay Gillesphey's own goal and Bobby Clark’s second-half strike made it back-to-back away wins for John Eustace’s side despite a goal for the hosts from Tyreece Campbell and a late red card for Matt Clarke.
Matt Bloomfield is still looking for his first win as Oxford manager after a second successive 0-0 draw.
QPR held the relegation-threatened Us goalless in a game of few chances played in difficult conditions, and for Rangers too it was a second stalemate in succession after their battling draw at Stoke last weekend.
Late goals from Marvin Ducksch and Kyogo Furuhashi halted Birmingham's away-day blues in a 2-0 victory at Sheffield Wednesday, who set an unwanted club record.
Ducksch broke the deadlock in the 83rd minute and Furuhashi sealed City’s first league win on the road since October with a second goal in stoppage time.
Rock-bottom Wednesday hit a post through Bailey Cadamarteri early in the second half, but their winless league run was extended to 21 matches – the longest in the club’s history and also a record in the Championship era.
Zan Vipotnik's double helped Swansea to a 3-1 home victory to pile more pressure on Blackburn manager Valerien Ismael.
Vipotnik made it 15 goals in all competitions this season, with 13 of those coming in the Sky Bet Championship.
But the Slovenian’s goals – together with an own goal by Rovers’ Connor O’Riordan – means it is just one win in 13 matches for Ismael.
West Brom were plunged into a relegation battle as improving Norwich won 5-0 at The Hawthorns.
Oscar Schwartau put Philippe Clement's side ahead in the 16th minute, and a desperate first half for Eric Ramsay’s outfit was followed by second-half goals by Ali Ahmed (49), half-time substitute Anis Ben Slimane (69), Ben Chrisene (73) and Mathias Kvistgaarden (90).
Albion have now lost four Championship games in a row and have suffered eight losses in their last 10, Norwich moving to within a point of their hosts.
