Championship early KOs: Stoke 4-0 Charlton, Preston 2-1 Blackburn, Lincoln 1-1 Southampton

The Championship early KOs have played out… Stoke 4-0 Charlton, Preston 2-1 Blackburn, Lincoln 1-1 Southampton.

The home and away fans inside the bet365 Stadium were left stunned when Stoke hit four past a Charlton side who came into this unbeaten.

Stoke’s Justin Devenny had a debut to remember, starting it off by scoring a penalty 15 minutes in, and scored another just before half time.

Ethan Galbraith doubled the Potters’ lead on 22 minutes and George Hirst added a third on the half hour mark.

Charlton’s day went from bad to worse on 50 minutes, when Dan McNamara, who was subbed on in the 26th minute, received a second yellow.

Meanwhile at Deepdale, Preston ended their losing run of four games by beating Lancashire rivals Blackburn thanks to Callum Lang’s double.

Blackburn got one back through Stan Mills’ own goal on 51 minutes.

Harry Clarke and Ryoya Morishita received yellow cards after they clashed in an off the ball incident, before Blackbur’s Jayden Fevrier struck the bar, unlucky not to have scored what would have been an worldie.

And at Sincil Bank, Welington produced an absolute screamer for his first goal for Southampton, putting them ahead against Lincoln as the first half was coming to an end.

Not long into the second half, Leo Scienza had a curled effort come back off the post, bounced across goal and hit the other post before being saved by the Lincoln keeper.

The Imps went level on 87 minutes, Mikkel Ladefoged making it three games unbeaten for the hosts.

Here’s the social media reaction after Championship early KOs: Stoke 4-0 Charlton, Preston 2-1 Blackburn, Lincoln 1-1 Southampton…

@StokeyyG2: Who needs Sorba eh, incredible lads. We look really exciting, full credit to Robins for turning this around at a very low point. #stokecity

@Mr_Prizm: Would just like to say a big thank you to Crystal Palace for giving us an absolute bargain, Devenny what an absolute baller, Galbraith’s too good for this league, the way he glides around the pitch with ease, Buzzing for Hirst to get his First too! What an unbelievable game! UTMP #stokecity

@charliescfc_: That midfield has cured my footballing depression 🥹 #stokecity

@KieranSCFC: Well in! Game was done at HT so no need to exhaust ourselves in the second half. Look a different team to the one that started the season, let’s hope we can keep it up. #stokecity

@olly_hodgey94: Sensational. How we’ve managed to sign devenny I’ll never know 😂 new shape is tidy. Galbraith is the best player in the league and we are winning the lot UTMP 🔴⚪️ #stokecity

@ChrisWo30990144: Horrible day but would have snapped anyone’s hands off for 10 points in 5 games. At least this game has made it very clear who’s in the starting XI moving forward #cafc

@owencafc1417: Write it off, forget about it and we go again at home Wednesday. We’ve shown in the first 3/4 games what we’re capable of #cafc

@Marc_CAFC: Totally accept we were very poor but the officials need to be investigated. Don’t want to see that tosser referee us again #cafc

@BigBadBraz: That’s the Championship for ya, always going to be bad days at the office and by the sounds of it dodgy refs. Chalk it off and focus on QPR at home. Up the Addicks #cafc

@Sfc_debs: Awful game management, and not enough quality on the bench. Sport Republic to blame for the weak squad and Tonda got his line up and subs completely wrong. This was a great chance to get up the table and we fucked it up. Fuming. #saintsfc

@benyedda19: Good point for Southampton, should’ve been 3-0 Lincoln

@Mortgage_Stu: Yet again our weaknesses upfront shown….Mubama not a threat at all. If Azaz doesn’t turn up against a physical side, it’s like playing with 10. #saintsfc

@JordonOloughlin: Apart from the goal, awful performance and we tried to shut up shop at 1-0 why? 2 points wasted #saintsfc

@BenDodds44: Absolutely gutted with that should have been a Lincoln win with the chances they missed unlucky lads #saintsfc

@SailorGirl30: Points dropped? But we didn’t lose, & I guess the players have had a taste of this kind football & need to learn from this… if they don’t we are in for a long season and won’t be challenging for the top places like this. #saintsfc