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  ECKERT SLAMS SLOPPY SAINTS

  BLAST: Eckert TONDA Eckert was left frustrated with the way his team started and admitted his team needs to improve against opponents lower in the table. The Saints sit in seventh, just five points off automatic promotion despite their four-point deduction at the start of the season, but they have...

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  Captain Carl heads Boro into the hat

  By Jon Murray OXFORD U 0 OXFORD: Eastwood 6, Long 7, Leigh 6 (Roosken 64, 6), Golding 7, O’Donkor 6, Snowden 6 (Emakhu 63, 6), Lynch 6 (Lee 77, 6), Sibley 5, Lacey 5, Missanga 5 (Vaughan 90), Bradney 5 (Holton 77, 6). Subs not used: Marriott, Collins, Goodrham, Griffiths....

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  KEEP SCORING WILL AND CALL WILL COME…

  IN THE GROOVE: Will Lankshear nets for Middlesbrough against Bolton PICTURE: Alamy FOR all the speculation, Will Lankshear was never likely to gatecrash Thomas Tuchel’s squad for the upcoming internationals. Even without the ill-timed hamstring tweak that sidelined the striker for Middlesbrough’s trip to Wrexham in midweek, it was just...

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  ALEXANDER HAILS ‘SUPERB’ PNE DISPLAY

  By Jonny Bentley PRESTON NE 1 Thompson 33 SOUTHAMPTON 0 GRAHAM Alexander was delighted with a “deserved” victory after seeing Preston beat high-flying Southampton by the narrowest of margins in Lancashire. Jordan Thompson’s stunning 33rd-minute volley proved to be enough for Alexander to earn his first win in charge since...