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Lampard tells Coventry players to stay ‘level-headed’ Boro win at Charlton; Millwall denied by late own goal Frank Lampard insisted the title race was never over after his Coventry side were frustrated in a 1-1 draw at 10-man Preston as their Championship lead was reduced to five points. After Andrew Hughes deflected Jack Rudoni’s shot into his own net, it seemed as if Coventry would bounce back strongly from their 3-0 defeat by Ipswich at the weekend. But despite that, and the man advantage after Liam Lindsay was sent off for dragging back Haji Wright when he was through on goal, Daniel Jebbison struck late to help Middlesbrough to move to within five points of the top. Lampard, the Coventry manager, said: “I am the first one to say that when we were 10 points clear and people don’t go 10 points clear in December and win this league. There is a lot to be done and it is important that the players stay level-headed and it is one game in which we played pretty well, and one moment was costly. I said to the players it shouldn’t feel like a loss but it does because of the standards and the way that we play. ” Middlesbrough extended Kim Hellberg’s perfect start as manager with a 2-1 victory at Charlton. Boro were 2-0 up at the break after goals by Riley Mc Gree and Morgan Whittaker. The Charlton goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski made a number of saves to prevent the visitors from being out of sight. There was a frantic finish when George Edmundson headed into his own net from Rob Apter’s cross with nine minutes of normal time remaining. Jake Cooper’s late own goal denied Millwall a fourth successive victory as they drew 1-1 with Derby at Pride Park. Alex Neil’s side missed the chance to move back within two points of Middlesbrough despite opening the scoring in the 81st minute. Derby have not endured the best of times in front of their own fans of late – losing their last two – and Matt Clarke nodded Thierno Ballo’s cross into his own net to put Millwall in position for a fourth win on the bounce. But Derby were able to stop themselves from suffering a fourth defeat from their last five as Cooper headed in the second own goal of the contest in the 88th minute. Jaden Philogene’s exquisite curling finish gave Ipswich a narrow 1-0 victory over Stoke at Portman Road. His goal, in just the second minute of the game, moved Town up a place to fourth spot as they recorded back-to-back victories while the Potters slipped to their third defeat on the trot falling down to eighth. Emil Riis headed an 83rd-minute equaliser to cap a storming Bristol City comeback from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw with Leicester at Ashton Gate. The visitors took a 17th-minute lead when Scott Twine saw his miscued clearance go straight to Stephy Mavididi and then tripped the Leicester player as he advanced into the box. Jordan Ayew hit the penalty down the middle to beat the diving Radek Vitek. It was 2-0 a minute before the break, Bobby De Cordova-Reid scoring against his former club with a low shot from 12 yards after Abdul Fatawu had got behind the Robins’ defence on the right and pulled back a pinpoint cross. The home side hit back a minute after the break when Leicester failed to clear their lines from an attack down the right and Mark Sykes fired low past Jakub Stolarczyk from a narrow angle. That sparked a tremendous second-half display by Gerhard Struber’s team, who equalised through Riis’s powerful downward header from a left-wing cross. Kieran Morgan struck with the last kick of the match to fire QPR up to seventh after a 2-1 win against Birmingham. The Blues thought they had secured a point when Patrick Roberts cancelled out Jimmy Dunne’s first-half header in the third minute of stoppage time. But QPR went straight up the other end and Morgan, who only came on with four minutes of normal time remaining, crashed in a dramatic last-gasp winner. It was a fourth win from their past five matches for QPR, while Birmingham have now lost seven matches on the road this season. Tonda Eckert continued his impressive start as Southampton manager with a sixth victory in seven games as the Saints held off a West Brom fightback to win 3-2 at St Mary’s. The Championship top scorer Adam Armstrong struck twice before half-time to take his tally to 11 after Leo Scienza set the hosts on their way with an early goal. The Baggies put up a second-half fight through goals from Karlan Grant and Nathaniel Phillips and went close to a late leveller but have now lost their past seven away games. Returning Oli Mc Burnie helped Hull get back to winning ways as Phil Parkinson watched Wrexham’s nine-match unbeaten league run come to an end from the stands following a 2-0 loss. Parkinson cut a frustrated figure as Wrexham deservedly went behind to a Kyle Joseph effort, with substitute Mc Burnie – making his first appearance since sustaining a calf injury in October – wrapping up the win for Hull after Ivor Pandur saved a Kieffer Moore spot-kick. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion Sheffield United’s four-match winning run came to an end as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home against Norwich. The hosts – whose starting lineup featured eight changes from the weekend because of “illness and injuries” – took the lead early in the second half with a goal from Danny Ings. Norwich, though, hit back to equalise with Djibril Soumaré scoring an own goal. Todd Cantwell’s 78th-minute penalty earned Blackburn a point from a 1-1 draw against fellow strugglers Oxford but they failed to win at Ewood Park once again. Ciaron Brown powered Oxford into the lead with a fierce strike in first-half stoppage time before Cantwell came off the bench to hit his fourth goal of an injury-hit season. But a draw against another side battling just above the relegation zone left Blackburn still with only one home victory all season, having taken just six points from 10 games in front of their own fans. Swansea secured their second win in four days to ease their relegation concerns thanks to Liam Cullen’s strike to seal a 1-0 win against Portsmouth. The Wales international swept home a superb effort from 20 yards in the 78th minute for the only goal of a tight contest between two clubs who have been in poor recent form. But following Swansea’s victory against Oxford last weekend it means the new manager, Vítor Matos, has delivered back-to-back league victories for the first time since April. Vivaldo Semedo’s equaliser in the seventh minute of stoppage time denied Sheffield Wednesday a second league win of the season. Charlie Mc Neill’s third goal in two games appeared to have handed rock-bottom Wednesday a rare bit of cheer in a difficult campaign. But just when wasteful Watford, who missed a penalty through Imran Louza, seemed to have run out of ideas, Semedo squeezed a volley from Mamadou Doumbia’s cross under the goalkeeper Pierce Charles to salvage a point.