Round-up: Burton move top while as goals flow freely in division

Weir was given his marching orders two minutes before the break for a second bookable offence but the Brewers dug deep and stole the points through Mark Duffy's 63rd-minute strike.

Gillingham are up to second after a comprehensive 3-0 win over play-off-chasing Bradford, their fourth victory in a row.

Bradley Dack and Rory Donnelly both netted in a blistering Gillingham start before Doug Loft's late effort and Nathan Clarke's red card rounded off a miserable afternoon for the Bantams.

Walsall began the day at the League One summit but find themselves outside the automatic promotion places following a 3-0 home defeat by Rochdale.

Ian Henderson opened the scoring early on for Dale and they were celebrating a stunning success after Calvin Andrew's second-half double.

Coventry moved to within a point of the Saddlers courtesy of a 5-0 demolition of rock-bottom Crewe. Adam Armstrong scored a first-half hat-trick while Jacob Murphy completed a brace in the final stages.

Chesterfield ended their long wait for a win in style by hammering relegation-threatened Shrewsbury 7-1.

Lee Novak netted a treble and Jay O'Shea and Rai Simons scored twice each, with Zak Whitbread on target for the Shrews, who finished the game with 10 men following Junior Brown's late red card.

Peterborough consolidated their place in the play-offs with a 3-2 victory at Sheffield United.

The Blades thought they had rescued a point when Jack Baldwin put through his own net but Martin Samuelson went straight down the other end and won it for Posh. Conor Washington and Erhun Oztumer had earlier scored either side of Billy Sharp's penalty.

Wigan are a point ahead of Peterborough in fifth after earning a 1-1 draw at Scunthorpe, who had taken the lead through Luke Williams before Michael Jacobs earned a point for the visitors.

Elsewhere, Barnsley beat Millwall 2-1 thanks to goals from Sam Winnall and Adam Hammill, with Steve Morison netting for the Lions.

Doncaster were 3-0 victors at Southend - Andy Williams, Aaron Taylor-Sinclair and Nathan Tyson with the goals - while Ashley Hunter and Bobby Grant were on target in Fleetwood's 2-0 win over Bury.

Chris Porter's late goal earned Colchester a point at fellow strugglers Oldham, who had taken an early lead through Rhys Murphy.

Port Vale's home clash with Swindon was postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.