ALL GOALS MD5 | EFL CHAMPIONSHIP 2023-24

All the post-match stats from an entertaining day in the Sky Bet Championship: ● Jack Clarke's opener against Southampton was the first time Sunderland scored in the opening minute of a league game since Marc McNulty's 30-second strike against Rotherham in League One in September 2019. They would go on to win the match 5-0, their biggest win in a Championship fixture since May 2007, when they beat Luton 5-0. ● With 13 points from five games, Preston are enjoying their best start to a league season since 1928-29 in the second tier, when they also had 13 points from their opening five matches when adjusting to 3 pts/win. ● Dexter Lembikisa (19) was the first teenager to score a league goal for Rotherham United since Izzy Brown against QPR in December 2016 (also 19). ● With just one point, Middlesbrough have picked up their joint-lowest ever points tally from their opening five matches of a Football League season, also having one point from five games in 1954-55, 1984-85, and 2003-04. ● Milan van Ewijk scored the first direct free-kick goal by a Coventry player in a home league game since Tony Andreu vs Scunthorpe in August 2018.