And just like that, Coventry City look inevitable again. A few weeks back they were letting leads slip into defeats, and drawing games they should have won.
Not anymore. A goal up at Bristol City and suddenly they found themselves down to 10 men after Joel Latibeaudiere's red card.
A month ago, mid-wobble, this would not have been three points for Coventry City. But Haji Wright then ran through a few minutes later and made it 2-0.
Shortly after half-time, Adam Randell committed the cardinal sin of getting himself sent off and restoring parity on the pitch.
Nine points clear of third now with 10 games to go. It is tough to see that resulting in anything but a promotion for Frank Lampard's Sky Blues.
Simeon Gholam
It looked to be one-way traffic at the MKM Stadium but, against the run of play, Millwall dug deep to stake their claim for the automatic promotion places.
After a shock opener from Jake Cooper with Millwall's first shot of the game was cancelled out by Joe Gelhardt, only one team looked like they would walk away with three points.
Hull unleashed a total of 23 shots on the Millwall goal, their highest total of the Championship season, and hit the bar twice.
Kyle Joseph will also feel slightly aggrieved that his header was ruled out in the first half following a dubious foul in the box.
On another day, Hull cruise to victory. Instead, it is now seven wins across the last 10 games for Millwall.
Beating Ipswich and Middlesbrough for a spot in the top two will be no mean feat but, with 10 games to go, the dream of securing a place in the Premier League for the first time in the club's history remains very much alive and kicking.
Patrick Rowe
Maybe, with 11 games to go, it is time to accept that we are not going to see the Ipswich Town side we all expected this season.
That is not to say they are not good, and they could still well finish in the top two. But all campaign the narrative has been that, eventually, the Tractor Boys will go on a run and show the full value their squad clearly has.
It is a narrative that has yet to come to fruition. We are in March now and they are still less than the sum of their parts.
That was highlighted in a 1-1 draw against a Leicester side in the bottom three that they really should have been putting away. The dominance was there, the chances were there, and opportunities were missed.
It could well be play-offs now, when we were all anticipating a whole lot more.
Simeon Gholam
Watching Hayden Hackney orchestrate Middlesbrough's 4-0 dismantling of QPR felt a little unfair on the rest of the division. Not because the Championship lacks quality - it absolutely does not - but because Hackney looks like he is operating on a different tactical and technical wavelength to everyone else on the pitch. This was not just a good midfield performance. It was a Premier League-level midfield performance.
The headline moment was his goal. Picking the ball up just inside the box, Hackney barely seemed to break stride before bending a glorious strike into the top corner. It was clean, controlled and delivered with the kind of casual confidence that suggested he had seen the picture long before anyone else had even realised it was developing.
That is how Hackney rolls.
When Middlesbrough wanted control, he slowed it down. When the moment arrived to accelerate through midfield, he snapped passes through the lines.
When QPR tried to press him, he danced into space.
And that is the thing with Hackney right now, the game looks easy to him. It is not if he makes the Premier League, but when.
Lewis Jones
There was perhaps no surprise that Derby kept themselves firmly in the play-off race with a professional win at Pride Park, so it feels the best use of these words is a tribute to Sheffield Wednesday.
I have seen far better players in far less hopeless positions throw the towel in given their predicament, but there was no evidence of that despite a 13th straight Championship defeat and a 30th league match without a victory.
Head coach Henrik Pedersen has carried himself with incredible poise throughout an almost incomparably difficult campaign, there is chaos and uncertainty above him but he has cultivated a spirit in his threadbare squad to continue giving their all for a frankly outstanding away support. Whatever the motivation is for those Wednesday players they put everything into salvaging a first away point since December.
Unfortunately for them standing in their way was a resolute, well-organised Derby side that moved to within three points of Wrexham after goals from Ben Brereton Diaz and Matt Clarke cancelled out an equaliser from former Derby forward Jerry Yates.
But Wednesday fight on, there are maybe a few squads up and down the country that could take note of this continued act of defiance.
Rob Jones
Matt Bloomfield took over at Oxford on January 9, when the club were three points from safety in the Championship and starved of wins. They had lost or drawn eight of the 10 games prior.
Another finally came on January 24, when they beat Leicester 2-1 at the King Power Stadium, but it was another six before the next. The writing looked to be on the wall; they were staring down the barrel of relegation.
But they beat fellow strugglers West Brom last Saturday and, in the lead-up to Friday's trip to Preston, Bloomfield told Your Site: "If we focus on what we can control and keep improving day by day, we believe we can pick up the points we need."
At Deepdale, they caused a shock. Milutin Osmajic cancelled out Michal Helik's opener to bring Preston level, but goals from Spurs loanee Will Lankshear and Ciaron Brown turned the game.
It was the perfect time to secure back-to-back wins for the first time this season and, with 10 games to play, Oxford know what they have to do in order to extend their second-tier stay for another season.
Dan Long
Blackburn and Portsmouth are right in the thick of a relegation battle in which six teams are fighting to avoid dropping into Sky Bet League One.
Predictable, then, that there would be little in a game between the two.
Was that down to the high stakes involved or a lack of quality going forward? Almost certainly the latter. It took 84 minutes for the first shot on target, with which Connor Ogilvie gave Pompey the lead.
At that moment, John Mousinho's side were heading seven points clear of the relegation zone - a comfortable cushion heading into the final weeks of the season. But then Hayden Carter steered in a header to earn a point for Michael O'Neill's side.
To add insult to injury, Carter is a former Pompey player, having played 22 times during a loan spell at Fratton Park in 2021/22.
Neither team deserved more than a point in truth, and the likes of West Brom and Leicester will have breathed a sigh of relief and have been delighted when that equaliser hit the net. A point is never to be sniffed at in this division, but three would have been huge.
Dan Long
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