![\"Dan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0024e5e7-614.jpg\"\/)
\nDan James puts Leeds ahead at the City Ground<\/p>\n
Callum Wilson scored just six minutes into his full debut and Republic of Ireland captain Nathan Collins headed home twice as Brentford hammered Birmingham City 6-1 at St Andrew’s.<\/p>\n
Aaron Hickey, Mikkel Damsgaard and Igor Thiago were also on target for the Bees after Demarai Gray briefly cancelled out Wilson\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n
It continues a really good start to the campaign for Keith Andrews’ men after they hammered Tottenham 3-0 in their Premier League opener last weekend.<\/p>\n
Mason Melia – on loan from Spurs – started for Lincoln City in their 4-1 win at Blackpool.<\/p>\n
Former Shamrock Rovers man Josh Honohan also started for the Imps, who had to be patient before killing off the contest.<\/p>\n
The two teams had been evenly matched through goals from Tanto Olaofe and Leighton Clarkson, before a second yellow card for Zac Ashworth.<\/p>\n
Within three minutes of being handed a man advantage, both Tom Bayliss and Rob Street found the back of the net, with Callum Elder later adding his name to the scoresheet as well.<\/p>\n
\nDan James puts Leeds ahead at the City Ground<\/p>\n
Leeds United secured a second win at Premier League rivals Nottingham Forest in three days to book a spot in the Carabao Cup third round.<\/p>\n
Dan James’ 50th-minute opener and a Neco Williams own goal earned a 2-0 victory for Daniel Farke\u2019s side to back up Saturday\u2019s 1-0 top-flight success.<\/p>\n
Before the weekend, they had not won at the City Ground since 1972.<\/p>\n
League One Peterborough stormed into round three by thumping Championship Watford 5-1 at Vicarage Road.<\/p>\n
Hornets boss Alessio Dionisi paid a heavy price for making 11 changes as James Clarridge\u2019s own goal, Harry Leonard\u2019s double and strikes from Bolu Shofowoke and Harrison Jones clinched an emphatic upset.<\/p>\n
Premier League new boys Coventry City survived a scare to beat League One Plymouth 4-2 at Home Park.<\/p>\n
After going two up inside five minutes through Taiwo Awoniyi and Jack Rudoni, Frank Lampard\u2019s men were pegged back by goals from Oliver Irow and Xavier Amaechi before Ephron Mason-Clark\u2019s finish and a Victor Torp penalty sent them through.<\/p>\n
Hull required penalties to beat second-tier Stoke City. The Tigers won 5-4 in the shootout after Kieran Dowell cancelled out Robert Bozenik\u2019s goal in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n
Teenager Josh Ayala scored twice on his full professional debut as West Ham came from behind to thrash Championship rivals Southampton 4-1.<\/p>\n
Taty Castellanos and Jarrod Bowen sealed the Hammers\u2019 victory at St Mary\u2019s after 19-year-old Ayala\u2019s double overturned Leo Scienza\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n
![\"Marcelino](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0024e5e9-614.jpg\"\/)
\nMarcelino Nunez celebrates his wonder goal<\/p>\n
Marcelino Nunez scored a sensational goal from the halfway line as part of a brace to help Ipswich Town beat Leicester City 3-1.<\/p>\n
Middlesbrough avenged last season\u2019s exit at the hands of Doncaster with a 3-1 win thanks to goals from Kyle Joseph, Will Lankshear and Jeremy Sarmiento.<\/p>\n
Norwich forward Ante Crnac marked his first appearance in 10 months following a serious knee injury by scoring the winner in a 2-1 victory at Brian Barry-Murphy’s Cardiff City, for whom Jack Moylan and Callum Robinson featured.<\/p>\n
Saheed Olagunju\u2019s debut goal helped Wolves beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 at Hillsborough, while Ched Evans scored twice as Fleetwood thrashed League Two rivals Shrewsbury 4-0.<\/p>\n
Romelle Donovan\u2019s first Sheffield United goal secured a 2-1 victory at fellow Championship side Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n
Leyton Orient won 6-5 on penalties away to Walsall following a goalless draw.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Jake Cooper earned Millwall a 1-0 success at Cambridge, League One Barnsley overcame fourth-tier Crewe 3-2 at Oakwell, and Reading eased to a 3-0 win at Stevenage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Callum Wilson scored just six minutes into his full debut and Republic of Ireland captain Nathan Collins headed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-604698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}