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    Championship early KOs: Derby 0-3 Swansea, M’boro 3-1 West Brom, Wolves 4-1 Stoke

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    Championship early KOs: Derby 0-3 Swansea, M'boro 3-1 West Brom, Wolves 4-1 Stoke

    The Championship early KOs have played out with some big wins… Derby 0-3 Swansea, M’boro 3-1 West Brom, Wolves 4-1 Stoke.

    Boro went one up on 48 minutes with Will Lankshear tapping home after Morgan Whittaker’s effort hit the post, then West Brom Jimmy-Jay Morgan levelled midway through the second half.

    Middlesbrough went 2-1 up on 73 minutes when Will Lankshear the grabbed his sixth in five games, before Alfie Jones sealed the win.

    Wolves, had fell behind to a screamer from Stoke’s Sam Gallagher two minutes in, but then hit back and comfortably won 4-1 thanks to a Rodrigo Gomes double and one each from Raul Jimenez and Jordan James.

    Stoke had a busy summer spending big, but they have lost all three of their opening league games of the season, putting more pressure on Mark Robins’ future.

    Swansea thrashed Derby 3-0 and it could have been an even bigger scoreline Joseph Opoku making it 1-0 after two minutes, Eom Ji-sung doubled their lead before half time, then Ronald added a third.

    Middlesbrough’s Luke Ayling said: “Yeah, it’s a really tough game today. I don’t think many teams will come here and play like that against us.

    “I think they played really well today. They had spells in the game where they were in top. So first time it was about riding it out, sorting a few things out, then out at half time.

    “Then when we’ve got a striker like him who has two touches all game and scores two goals, it’s great. So it’s brilliant.”

    On Lankshear: “I know he’s top he’s top, he’s a young lad but so hungry then oh that comes in every day scores goals in training celebrates like it’s on a Saturday so top top lad proper goal scorer proper lad.”

    Interviewer: “How challenging are games like this Will where you’re not necessarily so involved as you wanted to be but you just have to be ready when you get the chances and you were?”

    Will: “Absolutely yeah I was really really impressed with the way West Brom played today I thought they were very very good. I didn’t think we were very good first half, be totally honest, not ourselves.

    “But yeah, as you said, it’s really, really important to be patient and stay in the game. When times get tough, you have to stay in the game. And I thought we did that. I thought we defended really, really well.

    “And second half, we came and did a job.”

    On six goals this season and his confidence? “No, I’m human of course. I just love to score goals. As Luke said, I come in every single day and I want to improve, I want to learn and I want to score goals. It’s what I want to do. I go home and I think about goals, goals, goals.

    “Every single time I step onto a pitch I try to do that and try to help the team as much as possible and get the win which is most important thing.”

    Boro’s Kim Hellberg said: I agree [on it being a game of two halves]. We weren’t good enough in the first half in terms of getting to them in terms of our pressure. We gave them too much time in a structural way and in intensity way. So both from me and the players. They don’t create so much of it, but we don’t create anything either.

    “And then I think the second half is a totally different story. It feels like we create chance after chance after chance through the second half. Play with intensity, play with getting out with the balls, taking the ball forward, pressing them and creating a lot of chances from that.

    “So I’m at the end of 90 minutes. I’m very happy with that. I think we win the game well deserved, even if the first half was far away from what we want to look like.

    On Will Lankshear: “I think he was good in the box to be fair today. I think fantastically, it’s a little bit from the space in the box, was good.

    “There’s a lot of things that he needs to do better in terms of the pitch, to be honest. But again, the boy in the box is unbelievable. And as a person, he’s also a top person. He works, but it’s just that it also puts a lot of high standards for him by his performance. And a young boy that hasn’t had any pre-season almost. So I also want to lower the expectation of him a little bit. And there’s still things that he needs to work and improve.”

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