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. Reading ran eight consecutive victories ended

Jermaine Beckford

. The results twice as Leicester beat Birmingham

Doncaster 1 Reading 1

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move above West Ham in second place in the npower Championship, but his streak of eight consecutive victories ended with a 1-1 draw at Doncaster. By Brian McDermott could have tied on points with leaders from Southampton, but have difficulty avoiding defeat after Kyle Bennett gave the hosts a lead of 27 minutes at Keepmoat Stadium.

Alex Pearce headed home from an Ian Harte free-kick on 51 minutes to claim a bookmark, which are now two points behind the Saints, while Rovers remain in the area relegation.

Doncaster manager Dean Saunders believes that the performance of his team shows that can be maintained. "They are a good team and deserve," he said. "They have won eight in a row and we have left we must be sure of that. Nobody has stopped recently. Can a nearest point of safety and are difficult to face. "

Rovers were destroyed by the return of Harte, with Pearce equalizer from a corner after a series of options was lost part of their game, leaving the side of Saunders can not do face.

"In general play was a game yet and we did a lot of chances and probably the difference in the end was Ian Harte," he added. "The delivery was the best I've seen, we had all kinds of problems every time they had seemed to mark a corner Everyone blows and got away with three or four, then we had a ... "

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Manager, Brian McDermott, refused to be swayed by their position in the league, instead of pointing the progress his team made this term.

"If you look back the last time we played Doncaster [in September], if we had lost we would have gone down to look at where we are, it is not too bad, "he says." We learned from the first half and second half we did what we had to do. This was never going to be easy, we should give credit to Doncaster, they have players who can hurt you.

"They were throwing bodies at the end to keep the ball out and the way it is. Do not expect to come anywhere and get an easy game in the first half we played well, no, but we had three scoring chances. We were better in the second half and try to win the match. We aim at the beginning and I thought we would go ahead and win. "

McDermott also praised the contribution of Harte with the result and said. "He did that for years, his left foot is close to perfection and we could have scored three or four still hungry to do well."

0 Hull Cardiff

Hull City won three seats in the play-off with an emphatic 3-0 win at promoted rivals Cardiff for a league match unbeaten 10. In the sixth minute own goal Kevin McNaughton helped the visitors on their way and James Chester and Aaron McLean was set with additional efforts in minutes 47 and 55a, respectively.

Nick Barmby, the Hull manager, said: "This is a great victory for us, I am very pleased with how we played and the fact that we arrived in Cardiff, has scored three goals and had a clean zero. against a team with great offensive players.

"Overall, it was the best performance of our race. We had some good minutes 45, against Leeds United, but he asked the players to ensure they were not neglected in the second half or vice versa.

"We needed to set up and it finally did. Some of our football, the chances we created and the movement of players from the first was nice. We made numerous problems. This is a psychological boost to get into the top six, but there is a long way to go. Let's be humble and keep our feet on the ground, work hard and see where it leads. "
"But then it is the same official who made the third goal. I saw him again and he was at least a yard offside. Was another terrible decision. People will see the marker and I think we've been ripped off, but was not the case. "

Leicester City 3 Birmingham City 1

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