Saturday clockwatch: Championship, EFL, Scottish Cup and Europe – live!

Over to Europe now and Serie A where Ruslan Malinovskyi has given Champions League last 16’s Atalanta a 2-1 lead at Fiorentina.

GOALS! Callum Hendry puts St. Johnstone 2-1 up at Ayr in the Scottish Cup while improving Stoke take the lead at home to Charlton. It’s James McClean with the goal and they’re up to 19th in the live standings.

In League One, Jayden Mitchell-Lawson gives Bristol Rovers an equaliser (1-1) at Wycombe and in League Two Theo Robinson’s strike doubles Colchester’s lead at home to Plymouth. 2-0.

Brentford break the deadlock as Julian Jeanvier gives the Bees a 24th-minute lead. As it stands, the hosts would move up to third, just two behind Leeds and three adrift of West Brom.

A scrappy goal and goalline technology has to alert the ref that the ball had crossed the line.

Another goal in the Scottish Cup with Mark O’Hara putting Motherwell 1-0 in front at St. Mirren.

Lack of goals in the Championship so far.

Fulham (at Blackburn) and Brentford (home to Middlesbrough) have the chance to close the gap on top two West Brom and Leeds but no goals so far in both those fixtures after 22 minutes.

In the Scottish Cup fifth round, Aaron Muirhead’s own goal has gifted St. Johnstone an equaliser at Ayr. 1-1.

Half-time scores in Germany: Binary in Bundesliga…

Freiburg 1-0 Hoffenheim
Hertha Berlin 0-1 Mainz
Schalke 0-0 Paderborn
Werder Bremen 0-0 Union Berlin
Wolfsburg 0-1 Dusseldorf

A match report from Rangers’ 4-1 Scottish Cup win:

GOALS! Martyn Waghorn puts Derby 1-0 up at Swansea in the Championship while Rarmani Edmonds-Green has given League Two leaders Swindon an early advantage at Carlisle. Not so good for third-placed Plymouth though as they trail Colchester 1-0 after a 14th-minute strike from Ben Stevenson.

GOAL! Wycombe 1-0 Bristol Rovers (Akinfenwa 9)

Wycombe have a game in hand on League One’s six-point leaders Rotherham and they’re on track to cut it in half after Adebayo Akinfenway’s early goal.

Back to the Scottish Cup and Aaron Drinan has put Ayr 1-0 up on St. Johnstone at Somerset Park.

Another goal for a home team in League One, well sort of, as Coventry go 1-0 up on bottom side Bolton. It comes from Sierra Leone’s Amadou Bakayoko.

GOAL! The first of the day in the 3pm games and Doncaster lead Rochdale 1-0 through Duran Duran bass player Jon Taylor.

Peeeep! The 3pm games are underway.

We also have fifth-round Scottish Cup action and Rangers have moved into the last eight after beating Hamilton Academical 4-1.

Sounds easy but Steven Gerrard’s side were being held 1-1 by the hosts with a quarter of the game remaining before pulling away.

Just over an hour gone in the other early Championship game and it’s 1-1 between local rivals Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday.

Josh Windass (16) put the visitors ahead but the lead lasted just eight minutes before Cauley Woodrow equalised for the Tykes.

In Germany, top two Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig meet tomorrow. Here’s a preview from Marcus Christenson:

In League One, Matt Crooks’ 10th goal of the season took Rotherham six points clear in League One after a 1-0 win at Lincoln last night.

Wycombe will hope to narrow the gap to three again by scoring a home win over Bristol Rovers, one of 10 games kicking off at 3pm in the third tier.

Swindon start the day with a four-point lead in League Two. They face the long trip north to Carlisle.

While the difference between first and second in the Premier League is 22 points, that same gap in the Championship covers the top 18 teams.

It’s particularly tight at the top and, ahead of the six 3pm kick-offs, there are seven teams separated by by just six points.

Leaders West Brom (56 points) play Millwall tomorrow while Preston have just joined a trio of sides on 50 points by scoring a 2-1 win at Wigan in Saturday’s early kick-off to move up to sixth.

Leeds fans have a few hours before the fingernail chewing begins as their game today is a 5.30pm kick-off at fourth-placed Nottingham Forest.