EFL Championship REVIEW 2 Sep 2026: one from four, and Burrell's double is all the model got right

Just one from four for the model, and the call it got was QPR at home. Rumarn Burrell won it for them 2-1 against Cardiff with both goals — a close-range finish from Nicolas Madsen's corner in the 36th and a curled second in the 53rd after Ronnie Edwards sent him through — with Perry Ng's 25-yarder in the 75th making the finish anxious. Cardiff went home with a first defeat of the season.

The three misses started with Wrexham's first win of the season, 3-0 at Millwall, where the model had backed the hosts: Zak Sturge turned an Issa Kabore strike into his own net in the 28th, and Kieffer Moore and Jacques Ekomie added to it after the break, on a night Millwall lost two more players to injury. West Brom and Charlton drew 1-1 — Callum Styles' finish from a corner cancelled by Tyreece Campbell to keep Charlton's unbeaten start alive — and Burnley, whom the model did not fancy against Middlesbrough, drew 1-1, Aidan Morris's opener answered by Ugo Raghouber's first goal since joining the club.