A second half goal from Fred Onyedinma gave Wycombe Wanderers victory in the English Championship, on the same evening Philip Anyanwu Billing and Dominic Solanke also both netted for Bournemouth in the same division, megasportsarena.com reports.
While Billing and Solanke lifted The Cherries against Middlesbrough, Onyedinma struck early in the second half to help bottom placed Wycombe beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 and get victory for only the seventh time this season.
Wycombe were on top in the early stages and came close to taking an early lead as another Nigerian-born attacker, Uche Ikpeazu found space from Curtis Thompson’s ball, but his effort was deflected wide by Joe Rankin-Costello.
The hosts were hit by an early injury to Dominic Gape, who was taken off on a stretcher, but they went close again as Admiral Muskwe headed wide right in front of goal from Joe Jacobson’s corner.
Wycombe midfielder Anis Mehmeti saw his effort deflect wide after a fine piece of skill just after the break and, from the resulting 47th-minute Jacobson corner, Onyedinma was left unmarked to head past Thomas Kaminski.
It was the fourth goal of the season for Onyedinma, who was playing left wing-back, but only his second in the league, where a rare win, which gave The Chairboys a glimmer of hope to avoid the drop, will delight Wycombe’s coach, Gareth Ainsworth, a former season ticket-holder with Blackburn, whose winless run was extended to five games.
Same evening in the Championship, Philp Anyanwu Billing scored one goal and made another as Bournemouth gave their play-off hopes a boost with a 3-1 win over Jonathan Woodgate’s former club Middlesbrough.
Jefferson Lerma and another Nigerian-born attacker, Dominic Solanke were also on target, as The Cherries picked up their second Championship victory in a row, moving them to within a point of Reading in sixth.
Duncan Watmore had briefly got Boro back on level terms with a well-taken solo strike to cancel out Billing’s first-half opener but Neil Warnock’s side are now seven points adrift of the top six.
