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Happy New Year! In a special fortnight edition, we take a look at how the Championship teams ended 2015 and started 2016.
Game of the Fortnight
The game of the fortnight could be found at the Riverside Stadium where Middlesbrough went four points clear at the top of the Sky Bet Championship with a win at home to second placed Derby. Aitor Karanka's side are now unbeaten in eight matches following a convincing 2-0 win over their closest title rivals.
They left it late but Boro' finally scored eight minutes from time after some nice build-up between Grant Leadbitter and Stewart Downing, the former playing a lovely through ball into Albert Adomah, who calmly chipped the onrushing keeper lee Grant.
Middlesbrough got a second just over a minute later. Following a deflected shot, David Nugent got the ball and squared the ball over to George Friend who capped off a fine display with a simple tap in.
Man of the Match: George Friend
Other news
The transfer window has opened once again so teams will all be looking to bolster their squads ahead of the run in. One of those teams might just be Brighton who are now without a win in six games and goalless in four. After going unbeaten in 21 games they've come back down to earth with three defeats in their last four to slide down to fourth.
Wolves used their win over Reading to spark into life, winning each of their last three while Forest have also used their win over us as a launchpad, going unbeaten in eight games after beating us 3-1 in late November.
At the other end it's looking increasingly bleak for Charlton whose fans protested the club's ownership before and after Saturday's draw with Forest.
#cafc fans protesting against clubs owners before #nffc game @BBCSport @5liveSport #bbcfootball #finalscore pic.twitter.com/18bdOYdtEv
— Faye Carruthers (@FayeCarruthers) January 2, 2016
It's now eight games without a win for the Addicks who've only won twice since August to slide into the bottom two. Fulham appointed Slavisa Jokanovic as their new manager and he's got plenty of work to do as they're on a run of just one win in 11 and are now under a transfer embargo.
Goal of the Fortnight
Goal of the Fortnight goes to Brentford's Sergi Canos. The Liverpool loanee produced a great bit of skill and a fantastic finish to secure all three points for his team, sadly we all know who it was against!
Player of the Fortnight
George Friend is the player of the fortnight. He was instrumental in helping his team to clean sheets over both Sheffield Wednesday and Derby, scoring against the latter in the 84th minute to put the game out of reach and secure his Middlesbrough side the win.
All Results
Saturday, Dec 26th 2015
Brentford 0-0 Brighton
Bristol City 1-1 Charlton
Derby 2-0 Fulham
Huddersfield 3-1 Preston
Hull 3-0 Burnley
Ipswich 2-1 QPR
MK Dons 2-1 Cardiff
Rotherham 4-0 Bolton
Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 Birmingham
Wolves 1-0 Reading
Sunday, Dec 27th 2015
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Leeds
Monday, Dec 28th 2015
Bolton 1-0 Blackburn
Birmingham 1-0 MK Dons
Burnley 4-0 Bristol City
Charlton 0-2 Wolves
Preston 1-0 Hull
QPR 1-1 Huddersfield
Reading 1-2 Brentford
Middlesbrough 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday
Tuesday, Dec 29th 2015
Brighton 0-1 Ipswich
Cardiff 1-1 Nottingham Forest
Fulham 4-1 Rotherham
Leeds 2-2 Derby
Friday, Jan 1st 2016
Brighton 0-1 Wolves
QPR 1-2 Hull
Saturday, Jan 2nd 2016
Birmingham 2-1 Brentford
Bolton 0-2 Huddersfield
Burnley 0-0 Ipswich
Cardiff 1-0 Blackburn
Charlton 1-1 Nottingham forest
Fulham 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Leeds 1-1 MK Dons
Middlesbrough 2-0 Derby
Preston 2-1 Rotherham
Reading 1-0 Bristol City
.@Boro came out on top in the big #Championship clash today. They'll like the look of this table... pic.twitter.com/GbuQ6zobMc
— Sky Bet Championship (@SkyBetChamp) January 2, 2016