Midweek Football

Champions League

Arsenal 1-0 Udinese
Arsenal really needed this result after the loss of Fabregas, but it could have gone many a different way if either team could finish. 3-0 Arsenal wouldn't have been hard to imagine, with Gervinho and Walcott both going close, whilst on the other hand 3-1 Udinese wasn't far away, with Di Natale going close and rattling the bar on one occasion. Whilst this victory was the pickup Arsenal needed, I'd be worried how fragile they looked missing a few of their bigger names.

Championship

Barnsley 1-3 Middlesbrough
Crystal Palace 2-1 Coventry
Doncaster 0-1 Nottingham Forest
Ispwich 2-5 Southampton
Leeds 4-1 Hull
Portsmouth 1-0 Reading
Watford 0-4 West Ham

If the premiership was a bit too boring with three 0-0 opening matches, make sure you watch the championship highlights. Leaky defences and organised attacks usually mean there's a lot of goals on offer, and last nights games really showed that, 7 games played with 25 goals shared between them. Southampton continued their 100% start to the season and looked very impressive against Ipswich, but I won't change my predictions of Leicester and West Ham to go up automatically, as Southampton haven't really faced a tough opposition yet. West Ham looked impressive themselves last night, sweeping aside former Premiership side Watford with ease, to bring them back-to-back away wins for the first time since 2007. Leicester play tonight so it'll be interesting to see how they bounce back from a defeat to Reading last time out.