EFL opening weekend: drama, comebacks and Leicester

Luton's six-minute heist

Kenilworth Road has seen some things, but a 90+6 winner to complete a 4-3 comeback on the opening day of the season is a particular kind of theatre. Luton were in trouble against Reading before Gideon Kodua settled it in the final seconds of added time, sending the home end into the sort of chaos that clips get made of.

Seven goals, a lead that changed hands, and a result that only arrived when most people had already started writing the match off as a draw at best. Kodua, the name to remember from this one.

Leicester's uncomfortable new reality

Leicester City drew 1-1 with Notts County on the opening day, a result that will not cause panic but will absolutely fuel a conversation that was always coming: can a club of Leicester's size and recent history actually dominate League One, or does the drop in standards take time to recalibrate?

League One on a warm August afternoon, against a Notts County side with nothing to lose, is not always the environment that rewards patient, possession-based football. One point from one game means nothing in isolation. The season is long. But the Foxes did not hit the ground running, and that is the fact.

Leicester were in the Premier League last season. They are now in the third tier. That sentence still reads strangely.

The rest of the weekend

Bolton Wanderers beat Preston North End 2-1 in a Lancashire derby that will have meant plenty to both sets of supporters regardless of where either club sits in the table. Derby results carry their own weight.

Wolves, another club navigating life in the Championship after relegation from the top flight, drew 2-2 with Blackburn Rovers. A point on the road is not a disaster, but Wolves will have wanted more from a game they could have won. Results are confirmed via The Guardian and BBC Sport's opening-weekend coverage; several other matches from the round, including Middlesbrough against Lincoln and Bristol City against Millwall, were still in progress at the time of reporting, so the full picture is still coming into focus.

Kodua in the 96th minute. Leicester City trying to work out what comes next. Round one, done.