EFL Matchweek 3 Round-Up: 5 Moments You Might've Missed

Bank Holiday weekend football does something strange to the fixture list, and a rainy Matchweek 3 obliged with chaos on cue. Prolific strikers carrying on their form, Sheffield Wednesday boost their goal difference, and two Championship sides in South Wales somehow crammed a whole game's worth of drama into the first 7 minutes. Here's five you might've missed if the big kick-off was all you caught.

Wednesday Put 7 Past Bromley

Sheffield Wednesday, newly arrived in League One after relegation from the Championship, gave newly promoted Bromley the sort of afternoon that reminds you exactly how far apart two sides in the same division can actually be. Callum Slattery opened the scoring in the 7th minute, Mason Burstow doubled it in the 31st, and Jamal Lowe made it three right on the stroke of half time. Wednesday came out for the second half and simply carried on: Louie Barry scored twice in the space of three minutes (46th and 49th), Lowe added his second in the 73rd, and Gabriel Otegbayo got himself on the scoresheet in the 81st.

Then Otegbayo did something you don't see very often (even though Joao Pedro did the exact thing this week too) - Six minutes after scoring for his own side, he turned the ball into his own net to gift Bromley a second goal, sandwiched around Victor Adeboyejo's 85th-minute penalty. Final score 7-2, and Bromley's first defeat since going up, after a win and a draw from their opening two games. Not every day you score 7.

Imps Get Off the Mark after 65 Years

Lincoln City picked up their first ever second-tier win for 65 years on Saturday, and it came at the home of a Bolton Wanderers side that hadn't lost yet. Ben House headed home in the 66th minute to end a wait stretching all the way back to April 1961, the last time Lincoln won a match at this level. For context, that's a wait longer than most of the current away end have been alive, and it means the last man in Downing Street when Lincoln last managed it was Harold Macmillan.

Lincoln arrived at the Toughsheet Community Stadium having lost their opening two Championship fixtures, against Middlesbrough and Portsmouth, so this was overdue in more ways than one for a side that went up as League One champions last season. Bolton had started the campaign unbeaten too, an opening-day win over Preston followed by a battling draw at QPR, and made a double substitution just after the hour to try and force the issue. It backfired within minutes. George Wickens had the busier afternoon in goal for Lincoln, and was still earning his corner in stoppage time, tipping a Sheehan free kick from 20 yards over the bar to make sure the club's first ever win at this ground, and first away win in Bolton for 42 years, actually stood up.

A Very Late, and Very Debatable Comeback

Cambridge United, back in League One and unbeaten from their first two matches, looked set for a first league win over Huddersfield Town when Zak Bradshaw fired them ahead in the 80th minute at the Cledara Abbey Stadium. It lasted less than two minutes. Joe Taylor levelled for Huddersfield in the 82nd, exchanging passes with Bojan Radulovic before drilling a finish into the bottom corner from the edge of the box, and then went from hero to matchwinner in the 89th when referee Harrison Blair pointed to the spot after Taylor went down under a challenge from Bennett that looked, to most inside the ground, like the defender had won the ball cleanly and perhaps even outside of the penalty area. Taylor didn't need asking twice, and Huddersfield left Cambridge with a 2-1 win that had looked extremely unlikely with 10 minutes still on the clock.

For Huddersfield, tipped by plenty for promotion this season, it kept an unbeaten start going after last week's 1-1 draw at MK Dons. For Cambridge, who'd taken 4 points from their first two games back in the third tier, it was a first defeat that will sting more the longer that penalty decision gets replayed.

6 Goals in 5 Games for Lankshear

Will Lankshear's summer move from Tottenham to Middlesbrough is looking like one of the signings of the Championship season so far. His brace against West Brom at the Riverside took him to 6 goals in 5 games since arriving at the club, and both were the kind of finishes that suggest this isn't a hot streak that's about to cool off. He opened the scoring in the 48th minute, then restored Boro's lead in the 73rd, steering home a simple volley after West Brom keeper O'Leary could only parry substitute Kyle Joseph's angled shot into his path. Alfie Jones added gloss with a third in the 87th, turning home after Ayling miscued a clearance under pressure, and Middlesbrough's strong start to the season rolled on with a 3-1 win.

6 goals in 5 games for a striker who arrived from Tottenham this summer is the kind of return that gets a manager's phone ringing from elsewhere by January. Boro fans will just be hoping he stays fit, and stays interested. Very Spursy though.

3 Goals in 7 Minutes, Then Nothing

Cardiff City Stadium served up as manic a start as you'll see all season, and then spent the rest of the afternoon recovering from it. Jack Moylan opened the scoring for Cardiff inside 2 minutes, assisted by Cian Ashford, only for Sheffield United to be level within 2 more through a Thomas Cannon penalty in the 4th. Three minutes after that, Callum O'Hare turned home a Patrick Bamford assist to put the Blades ahead. 3 goals, 7 minutes, and most of the crowd hadn't even settled into their seats.

Cardiff steadied the ship and got back level through Ashford's finish in the 38th minute, and that turned out to be the last meaningful action of the game. Final score 2-2, all four goals inside the first 38 minutes, and a second half that offered nothing to match the chaos of the first. If you'd walked in at half time not knowing the score, you'd never have guessed the opening exchanges had been that frantic.

That's 5 you might've missed from Matchweek 3. Reckon we missed one that deserved a mention? Tell us.