Tag: battling

Coventry City 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday: Battling Owls frustrate champions-elect
11 April 2026 Off

Coventry City 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday: Battling Owls frustrate champions-elect

By Total Football News

Coventry City were forced to wait to clinch promotion to the Premier League after being held by relegated Sheffield Wednesday – but it will take a mathematical miracle to deny them thanks to results elsewhere.

The Championship leaders would have officially been up had they beaten the Owls, because of promotion rivals Middlesbrough’s defeat by Portsmouth later on Saturday.

However, Boro’s loss, combined with Millwall only managing a draw at

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Millwall 0-0 Ipswich Town: Lions earns battling draw against Town
29 December 2025 Off

Millwall 0-0 Ipswich Town: Lions earns battling draw against Town

By Total Football News

Milwall, who drop a place to seventh after the Boxing Day fixtures, will feel they could easily have taken all three points.

The Lions so nearly won it late on, and had had the better chances in a largely forgettable first half – the highlight of which was Walton’s athletic sprawling save from a looping Taylor header.

Walton also did well to block a neat first-time flicked Mihailo Ivanovic effort

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Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth: Rams held by relegation battling Pompey
20 December 2025 Off

Derby County 1-1 Portsmouth: Rams held by relegation battling Pompey

By Total Football News

Derby responded well to going behind early on and were the better side throughout the first period, with Pompey forced to show resilience.

Ben Brereton Diaz spurned a promising opening for Derby after 31 minutes when he had the chance to lay it off to a clean through Bobby Clark, but the Southampton loanee took a heavy touch and allowed Schmid to claim.

After levelling just before the interval, John

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Preston North End 0-0 Swansea City: Lilywhites frustrated by battling Swans
6 March 2025 Off

Preston North End 0-0 Swansea City: Lilywhites frustrated by battling Swans

By Total Football News

Preston North End’s slim Championship play-off chances suffered a blow as they were held to a goalless draw by Swansea City.

Milutin Osmajic wasted the best chance of the night, scuffing wide of the target when he seemed certain to score early in the second half.

Eom Ji-Sung went closest for Swansea with a free-kick, but it was Preston who were left frustrated by the stalemate having looked the more

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Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United: Erik ten Hag’s side earn battling draw at Villa Park
6 October 2024 Off

Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United: Erik ten Hag’s side earn battling draw at Villa Park

By Total Football News

Manchester United simply had to avoid defeat at Aston Villa to ensure the focus on manager Ten Hag did not become more intense, perhaps to the point where the Old Trafford hierarchy felt it was time for a change.

It was hardly a sparkling performance, indeed for long periods this game was bogged down in a morass of mediocrity, but at least United fought for their manager and actually had

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