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Norwich City and Sheffield Wednesday played to a scoreless draw at Carrow Road on Saturday. The result keeps both sides unbeaten in the new season after each came into the match on the back of a win on opening weekend. Both sides had chances to score, but neither will feel hard done by the result in an even match. More to follow... MATCH FACTS  Norwich: Ruddy (McGovern 45), Ivo Pinto, Bennett, Klose, Olsson (Murphy 34), Howson, Tettey, Brady, Naismith, Hoolahan, Jerome (Mulumbu 75).  Subs not used: Canos, Martin, Bassong, Morris. Sheff Wed: Westwood, Hunt, Lees, Hutchinson, Pudil, Wallace (Buckley 81), Lee, Bannan, Abdi, Hooper (Fletcher 72), Lucas Joao (Nuhiu 85).  Subs not used: Wildsmith, Palmer, Semedo, Vermijl. Referee: Andy Woolmer (Northamptonshire)  Read the Original

One decorated debutant did his job, but his compatriot at the other end of the park failed to do his. Alvaro Negredo and Victor Valdes were team-mates in the victorious Spain squad at Euro 2012 and they were re-united at the Riverside this summer. But while Negredo scored the opening goal on his return to the Premier League, goalkeeper Valdes was to blame as Xherdan Shaqiri equalised midway through the second half. MATCH FACTS, LEAGUE TABLE AND MATCH ZONE  MIDDLESBROUGH (4-2-3-1): Valdes 5; Nsue 6, Barragan 7, Gibson 7, Friend; 7.5 Clayton 6.5, de Roon 6 (Forshaw 18, 6.5); Adomah 5.5, Ramirez 8 (Nugent 87), Downing 6.5; Negredo 6.5 Unused subs: Konstantopoulos, Rhodes, Fischer, Baptiste, Stuani. Booked: Downing, Ramirez. Goals: Negredo 11.  STOKE(4-2-3-1): Given 6; Bardsley 5, Shawcross 5.5, Wollscheid 5.5, Pieters 5.5; Whelan 6, Imbula 5; Shaqiri 6.5, Bojan 6 (Allen 78), Arnautovic 6.5; Diouf 5 (Walters 68).  Unus...

Huddersfield piled further frustration on Tyneside by defeating Championship favourites Newcastle 2-1 at St James' Park. In front of a sell-out 52,000 crowd, Huddersfield made it two wins from two to climb to the top of the league and leave Rafael Benitez's Magpies nursing the wounds of consecutive reversals. Striker Nahki Wells curled David Wagner's team in front on the stroke of half-time when he was afforded too much freedom in the Newcastle box. MATCH FACTS  Newcastle: Sels, Janmaat (Armstrong 83), Mbemba, Lascelles, Dummett, Anita, Hayden, Shelvey, Aarons (Ritchie 45), Diame (Perez 75), Gayle.  Subs not used: Clark, Colback, Darlow, Jesus Gamez. Booked: Gayle Huddersfield: Ward, Smith, Hudson, Schindler, Lowe, Lolley (Payne 81), Mooy, Hogg, van La Parra (Scannell 72), Kachunga, Wells (Palmer 64).  Subs not used: Scannell, Coleman, Cranie, Stankovic, Hefele. Booked: Hudson, Lowe Referee: Oliver Langford (W Midlands) Att...

Much more of this and Mauricio Pochettino will be cast as Mr Angry every week. Pre-season had started with him lambasting Tottenham's players for the way they ended the last campaign and 45 minutes into the new term, he was raging once more. Pochettino's Tottenham have become renowned for their intensity and the boundless stamina that sees them run opponents into submission but in the first half at Everton, the Argentine looked on in disbelief. This wasn't the team he recognised and he was in no mood to mince his words. 'I was tough with them and I think that a lot of things happened,' Pochettino said, giving an insight to the words he found in the dressing room as Tottenham trailed to Ross Barkley's early free-kick. 'We made a lot of mistakes in our positions and we did not respect our positions. 'This (strong words) is all a manager has when we are not happy. It is normal. But in the end you try not to be too critical. It was my res...