Kelechi Iheanacho and Jamie Vardy were both on target as Leicester stayed top of the Championship with a 2-0 victory against Stoke at the King Power Stadium. Iheanacho scored for the third successive game as a dominant Leicester reached the 30-point mark from only 11 games, with a 10-point cushion to third. But Enzo Maresca’s side had to work hard for their victory against stubborn opponents, with the points not secure until substitute Vardy’s 79th-minute close-range effort. Ipswich kept pace and extended their lead over third-placed Preston to eight points after a thrilling 4-2 victory over North End at Portman Road. Conor Chaplin fired Ipswich ahead before the visitors levelled through Mads Frøkjær-Jensen. Brandon Williams’s superb solo effort restored the hosts’ advantage, which was added to by Nathan Broadhead. Ben Whiteman fired Preston back into it, but Kayden Jackson’s late fourth ensured promoted Ipswich’s extraordinary start to the season continued. Leeds kept pace with the playoff pack with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Bristol City at Elland Road. Daniel Farke’s side opened the scoring in the 37th minute when Dan James was in the right place to fire into the bottom corner after the visitors had failed to clear a flowing move by the home side. Kal Naismith sent the sides in level at the break as he headed in a corner but Leeds regained the lead early in the second half through Joël Piroe’s neat finish from the edge of the area. Arnór Sigurdsson scored twice as Blackburn thrashed QPR 4-0 to increase the pressure on beleaguered home manager Gareth Ainsworth. Tyrhys Dolan and Sammie Szmodics also found the net in a thumping away victory for Rovers, who had lost their previous four league matches. Ainsworth remained defiant after what was another grim performance at Loftus Road, where the west London side have won just once since last October and have lost five of their six matches so far this season. “I’m a fighter and a scrapper,” he said. “I’ll get this team out of this, no problem, I’ll get this team higher in the league. “I can stand in the mirror and know I give my best. If that’s not good enough then I’ll be told. But at the moment I intend to keep going and make myself and these players better … I’ll give absolutely everything until somebody tells me not to.” Ben Gibson’s late own goal handed Coventry a point as they came from a goal behind to draw 1-1 with Norwich. Jonathan Rowe had prodded Norwich ahead in the first half before Gibson headed into his own net to prevent a first Coventry home defeat since April. Jak Alnwick’s second-half howler allowed Watford to claim a 1-1 draw at Cardiff. The Cardiff goalkeeper’s clumsy control of a harmless pass from centre-half Mark McGuinness gifted a 54th-minute equaliser to Vakoun Bayo. Cardiff had taken the lead in the 26th minute through McGuinness, but never played with the energy they needed to bounce back from their midweek defeat at Middlesbrough. Joe Bryan’s first goal for Millwall earned them a 2-2 draw in a frenetic encounter with Hull at the Den. After Jaden Philogene and Adama Traoré had turned the game around for Hull following Duncan Watmore’s early opener, Bryan struck to secure a point. Swansea made it four league wins on the spin with a 3-1 comeback success at Plymouth. The icing on the cake came with the visitors’ superb 90th-minute breakaway goal, with substitute Liam Walsh playing the ball out to the right to Jamie Paterson on the run. His precise pass inside enabled Josh Key, who timed his run to perfection, to finish past stranded goalkeeper Conor Hazard as Argyle were committed to attack in search of a leveller. Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield played out a goalless draw in a Yorkshire derby of few clearcut chances at Hillsborough. It was Neil Thompson’s first game as caretaker manager of Wednesday following the sacking of Xisco Muñoz, who failed to register a league victory during his short spell as manager. Jordan Hugill earned Rotherham their first away point of the season with a 1-1 draw at Southampton. Stuart Armstong had put Southampton into an early lead, but Hugill came off the bench to lob Gavin Bazunu and end Rotherham’s run of five pointless away trips this season. Tony Mowbray, meanwhile, hit out at a “ridiculous” red card decision that “spoilt the game” after his Sunderland side were thumped 4-0 by Middlesbrough.