Brenden Aaronson scored a 95th-minute equaliser for Leeds United as they began their Championship campaign with a thrilling 3-3 draw versus Portsmouth at Elland Road. (More Football News)
Aaronson, who spent the 2023-24 season on loan at꧋ Union Berlin, squeezed his finish into the bottom-left corner deep into stoppage time to deny John Mousinho's newly promoted visitors a dr𓃲eam start to the season.
Pascal Struijk's early penalty gave Leeds the lead but they were quickly p๊egged back by Elias Sorensen's leveller, and Portsmouth then inched ahead on two occasions.
Callum Lang's stunning strike from distance put them 2-1 up shortly before half-time, only for Wilfriedꦬ Gnonto to drag Leeds level just 54 seconds into the second half, beating Will Norris with a clever reverse finish.
Leeds dominated for long periods and should have kജilled the game off, finܫishing with 22 shots to Portsmouth's five and 39 touches in the penalty area to the visitors' six.
Daniel Farke's hosts were almost condemned to a shock defeat by Lang's 92nd-minute penalty, conceded cheaply by Jayden Bo✨gle, but Aaronson had other ideas.
E🐓lsewhere, West Brom fought from behind for a 3-1 victory o🐼ver Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road, with Josh Maja scoring a hat-trick.
Lucas Andersen put Marti Cifuentes' hosts ahead after 16 minutes, but Maja soon hit back with a near-post header before adding two more clo🤪se-range finishes after the break.
Maja's treble made him the first Albion player to score a hat-trick in tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚheir opening game of a league season since Alf Bentley accomplished the fea♎t in 1913-14.
Norwich City, who joined Leeds and West Brom in falling short in last season's play-offs, endured a miserable st♑🐭art to their campaign as they went down 2-0 to newly promoted Oxford United.
Mark Harris cut inside from the💞 left before squeezing a finish♓ through Angus Gunn's legs for 1-0, then Cameron Brannagan made the points safe with a side-footed finish in the 58th minute.
Michael Carrick's Middlesbrough also got off to a winning start, beating Swansea City 1-0 at the Riverside Stadium as Emmanuel Latte Lath contiꦬnued his fine run in front of goal.
Latte Lath converted from the pena🐻lty spot 25 minutes in after Azeem Abdulai felled the marauding Isiah Jones, netting in a seventh straight Championship game.
He has nine goals in total throughout that run, which is the joint-longest scoring streak by any player since the Championship's 2004 rebrand, alongside Charlie Austin in 2012, Jordan Rhodes in 2013, and Aleksand♛ar Mitrovic i𝓀n 2021.
