Luton Town maintained their hopes of Championship survival after a 3-1 win over play-off chasers Bristol City at Kenilworth Road.

Thelo Aasgaard, Carlton Morris and Isiah Jones grabbed the goals as Matt Bloomfield’s side followed up their Good Friday win in a six-pointer at Derby by seeing off the side that began the day in 5th place in the Championship.

On an eventful day that saw the Hatters’ fellow relegation rivals Derby, Plymouth and Hull all record wins, Luton remain inside the relegation zone. They are divided from Derby by goal difference, in a tightly clustered bottom end of the Championship where only three points split the bottom four of the table, with Preston, Oxford and Hull all within three points of the bottom three.

Having beaten fellow strugglers Derby in the first part of the Easter double header, Luton faced a tricky test in the form of a visit from Bristol City, who beat Sunderland on Good Friday to maintain their grasp on a play-off position.

Luton began on the front foot against the Robins, with Liam Walsh denied by Max O’Leary before the Bristol City keeper also made the save after Cameron Pring’s clearance rebounded off Aasgaard and flew back towards the away side’s goal.

Nahki Wells saw a low effort drift wide, in perhaps the visitor’s only real opportunity of the first half, while Aasgaard came close for the hosts with a free-kick that cleared the crossbar by a couple of inches.

Within four minutes of the restart, Luton found the game’s opening goal. O’Leary was ruled to have bundled the ball away despite home shouts he had fouled Millenic Alli, but the Hatters remained on the attack and Christ Makosso fed Aasgaard, who drilled a low strike that squirmed under O’Leary and in.

The lead would only be Luton’s for three minutes, however. Teden Mengi’s clearance seemed to have dealt with a dangerous cross, but Bristol City full-back George Tanner sent a crashing volley that beat Thomas Kaminski to equalise.

Seven minutes later, however, Luton found themselves back in front. A corner induced a scramble within the Bristol City box and the ball eventually landed the way of Morris, who hooked home a volley for his first goal of 2025.

Tanner was denied by a flying save by Kaminski, with the same man then walloping the rebound over the top.

Luton responded by scoring a third goal a few moments later. Having won the ball back, Jones was able to fly forward, elude a tackle, break into the box and drilled a low shot into the bottom corner to make it 3-1.

The referee waved away penalty appeals for the visitors after Mengi’s challenge on Robins substitute Sinclair Armstrong, while Kaminski made a good save to keep out George Earthy, but the away side ran out of time to eat into Luton’s lead.

That allowed Luton to pick up a huge three points and maintain form akin to the teams around them after several of their rivals won. Luton face two big games to wrap up their season, starting with a home clash with play-off chasing Coventry City next weekend.

A five second time penalty ultimately proved pivotal as Max Verstappen finished second for Red Bull at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Verstappen was handed a penalty for a move to prevent Oscar Piastri taking the lead into turn one at the start of the race, and the penalty ultimately proved decisive, with the Dutchman finishing less than three seconds behind the Australian McLaren driver at the end of the race.

The decisive incident was part of a pivotal first lap for Red Bull, with Verstappen’s teammate Yuki Tsunoda taken out after a collision with Pierre Gasly’s Alpine.

The result means that, with five races of the 2025 F1 season done, Verstappen dropped a place to third in the Driver’s Championship. The man who has won the last four titles currently sits 12 points behind new leader Piastri, who took the lead in the championship after winning for the third time this season.

Tsunoda has just six points so far in the campaign, with two picked up from his first three races at Red Bull.

In the Constructor’s Championship, Red Bull sit third in the standings, with the Milton Keynes-based team on 89 points. They are 22 points behind second place Mercedes and 99 behind early leaders McLaren.

Red Bull had entered the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix chasing big rewards, with both drivers in the top ten for only the second time this season and Verstappen having delivered a fine qualifying lap to pip Piastri and George Russell to pole position.

When the race began, however, two pivotal incidents that changed Red Bull’s fate took place.

The first saw Verstappen cut turn one after the faster starting Piastri had managed to get inside and to turn one. Red Bull opted not to give the position back, and three laps later, the stewards got involved by handing Verstappen a five second time penalty.

When the penalty was given, it came at the end of a safety car in which a Red Bull driver was involved. Tsunoda and his former Alpha Tauri teammate Gasly were battling when the two made contact going through turn 4.

The duo spun after the contact, putting Gasly’s Alpine into the wall and out on the spot. Tsunoda initially limped back to the pits, but when back in his garage, the Japanese driver’s car was deemed too damaged to continue and he was retired from the race.

Red Bull pitted Verstappen on lap 21, pitting one lap after Piastri. The move meant that Piastri was able to jump Verstappen thanks to the combination of the undercut and the penalty.

While Verstappen was able to keep Piastri honest, he wasn’t able to erode the gap, allowing the Australian to take his second victory in a row and third in the 2025 season so far.

Red Bull will be aiming to go again next time out, when the F1 season resumes in Miami early next month.

MK Dons collected their first win under Paul Warne’s management with a 1-0 win at Crewe Alexandra.

Scott Hogan scored the only goal of the game just before the half-hour mark, after he took advantage of an error by Crewe’s former MK Dons goalkeeper Filip Marschall.

With the Dons able to resist Crewe’s attempts at seeking an equaliser, it saw them pick up a first win in seven outings.

It also means that the Dons were able to confirm they would be staying in the fourth tier for next season, with the combination of their win and Carlisle drawing at Accrington Stanley ending any residual fears of MK Dons being relegated to the National League. With two games to go, the Dons sit 18th and are nine points above the bottom two.

A tight first half saw only a smattering of chances created between play-off chasing Crewe and the Dons, with Crewe’s Kane Hemmings seeing a shot dribble wide.

With 28 minutes on the clock, a decisive moment popped up. Marschall dallied when preparing to clear the ball, and his attempted bounced off the charging Hogan, who duly ran onto the loose ball and passed it home to put MK Dons in front.

Hogan and Jonathan Leko saw attempts blocked as the Dons tried to put daylight between themselves and the home side.

After half-time, Crewe saw Conor Thomas have a strike blocked before Hogan had a strike blocked after being played in by Leko.

Former Crewe loanee Joe White saw a strike bounce just wide before Hogan would see another strike blocked by a covering Crewe defender.

The hosts struggled to create chances but Crewe sub Joel Tabiner nearly found a way through for the Railwaymen when his free-kick bounced off the post.

Visiting sub Danilo Orsi missed an opportunity to seal the deal for the visitors with a late strike that just went wide, but MK Dons were able to Crewe at arms length and in the process take the three points.

Warne’s side will wrap up their season with games against Grimsby and Swindon in their final two assignments of the League Two campaign.

MK Dons’ Head Coach Paul Warne was content with his side’s performance as his first game as boss ended as a 0-0 draw with Newport County.

Warne’s first game in charge saw the Dons look likelier to win in a tight contest against the Exiles at Stadium MK, but with no game forthcoming in a tight contest, it meant that the Dons were unable to grab a win on their new bosses’ debut.

Speaking after the game, Warne said that based on a single training session, he felt the players had taken up a lot of his desired instructions for starters.

He said, “I was really pleased with a lot to be fair. We only had the lads in for one day and one training session. We are quite a lot to deal with, me and Rich, and they had a lot of information to take on.

“My teams always play with a real energy, a real athleticism, try to play forward when they can and I don’t know if you notice but try and cross the ball when they can. We try to keep it in there, help the lads with set-pieces and everything.

“For all the information they had to take on, plus the nervous energy for playing for a different manager that’s never nice, I thought the lads done really well. They kept a clean sheet. I thought the only chance we really conceded was a header from a set-piece early on. Apart from that, I don’t think we had a lot to defend.

“I thought the lads gave a good account of themselves really. It’s just disappointing we didn’t get a goal in the second half, which would’ve been the icing on the cake.”

One element that Warne said he would like to improve was chance creation, as he felt that the side could’ve done more to unlock the away defence.

He said, “There wasn’t many chances. There was an intent to cross the ball. I did say to the lads after that we probably didn’t play to the striker’s feet for as much as I’d like.

“We’re not going to come in after one one hour session on a stadium pitch and be absolutely perfect but most of it was pretty good. The finishing edge at the top end of the pitch is the hardest thing, and I thought in fairness as well, don’t get away from the fact Newport defended really well. They always had a threat up top with pace that we dealt with generally ok.

“I like my teams to be aggressive and to play forward when they can. We started the game really well but you can’t keep that intensity for 90 minutes.

“There was a real intent about the play and you could see the lads really wanted to win. I asked them with four games to go to pick up some real points and I leave really pleased.”

Talking about the general philosophy, Warne said he wants to enforce a positivity in his squad in order to booster their forms going into both the final games of the season and the start of the next.

He said, “I want my teams to be fearless and sometimes when you’re not doing well, that’s the hardest thing. It’s difficult to make yourself great when you’re fearful of failure. So we’ll keep reinforcing how great they are and the good things they did and hopefully little by little, we’ll improve.”