Tuesday 18 August 2015 16:04, UK
Great goals, standout signings and late drama - the second weekend of Football League was a cracker.
With the help of Sky Sports' Football League expert Peter Beagrie, we pick our way through five talking points from the weekend's action across the Championship, League One and League Two.
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Fabbrini gets Boro firing
The big-money return of Stewart Downing might have dominated pre-season talk on Teeside but, on the evidence so far, Diego Fabbrini - on a season-long loan from Watford - could be the player to render Wembley pain a distant memory.
After winning a penalty in the Capital One Cup win at Oldham, the Italian delivered an even more swaggering display against Bolton, finding pockets, picking passes - and opening the scoring with a scorcher from distance.
Boss Aitor Karanka gushed of the man who fed Kike on Saturday, as well as notching himself: “I told Diego this week that I like him a lot but he needs to improve his numbers; he doesn't score a lot of goals but he was amazing today.”
BEAGS' VERDICT:
Middlesbrough were one of my pre-season tips for promotion. We knew all about their defensive qualities - there were clean sheets galore last season - so it was what happened down the other end of the pitch in the transfer window that would make or break their season.
Stewart Downing is one of the three top signings in the division. They needed to supplement Kike, and they've gone out and bought David Nugent, so they have real competition for places.
Fabbrini is a surprise. We thought he would play in more of a wide role, if he played. He's a tremendous athlete, he has been out on loan all over the place, so can fit in anywhere. It was surprising he played in the central role, but he proved to devastating effect what he can do.
Armstrong on song
Coventry look like they're onto a winner with Adam Armstrong - but how long can they keep him?
The 18-year-old spent last season on the fringes of the Newcastle squad before heading on a six-month loan to League One, City boss Tony Mowbray wooed by his "eye for goal and dynamic movement".
Armstrong's bagged four goals in less than three hours of football for the Sky Blues, a cheeky 40-yarder to catch David Forde off his line one of two strikes during Saturday's rout on the road.
Mowbray's surely picked up the phone to Steve McClaren already...
BEAGS' VERDICT
He has such a low centre of gravity, very quick, mobile and clever with his runs. I have a lot of friends in the coaching staff up at Newcastle and he is highly regarded.
Tony Mowbray can spot the player. He built a very young, vibrant side at Hibernian, and that is exactly what he is doing now.
Armstrong has grasped his opportunity and has been a revelation. He plays with no fear, and will try anything. A couple of braces and a goal of the season contender already is incredible.
With a manager who will back him to the hilt, on a perfect surface like Coventry and with his enthusiasm, he will go far.
Clement kept waiting
He might have been used to winning at the Bernabeu but Paul Clement is still waiting for his first victory as top dog after leaving his role as Real Madrid's highly-rated No 2.
Darren Bent, Tom Ince and Andreas Weimann have bolstered a squad that looked well set last term before crumbling in the run-in - but underwhelming draws against Bolton and Charlton - either side of a Capital One Cup defeat by League Two Portsmouth - might just have tempered early optimism.
Clement has admitted he is still learning "what kind of characters" he has in his ranks, while his charges are reportedly tussling with a string of different systems to learn. How quickly can the new-look Rams gel?
BEAGS' VERDICT:
Nigel Clough left Derby with a solid base, Steve McClaren took those young players to the right end of the table, and they were unfortunate that it didn't work out for them last season. Chris Martin got injured and they couldn't cope.
Paul Clement has recruited very, very well, but we all know that doesn't guarantee that you will hit the ground running.
Paul will want to put his own slant on it, but he will have worked out, being the brilliant coach that he is, that the Championship suffers no fools, and nobody has a divine right to win week in, week out.
Adams a cut above for Blades
Sheffield United 2-0 Chesterfield
After an opening-day battering by Gillingham, the bookies' favourites for League One steeled themselves for a local derby - just hours after selling player of the year Jamie Murphy to Brighton.
The Bramall Lane hordes needed a pick-me-up and Che Adams - tipped as one to watch this season - answered the call, his two goals from the flank getting the Blades off the mark.
"Che is a raw talent - people get excited watching him play because he makes things happen," boss Nigel Adkins said of the former non-league teen, who caught the eye with a cup double against Tottenham last term. "Now we have to make him even better."
BEAGS' VERDICT:
I have always like Che. He comes from a non-league footballing background. He has been stifled a bit, but now he is trying to fill the boots of the very talented Jamie Murphy who has moved on.
What he does well is when playing in wider areas he has a striker's mentality, so when there is a wide player on the opposite side, he can make sure he is in the box as well.
When Sheffield United lost Murphy it was a huge blow, but when one door closes another one opens, and I know that in the system Nigel Adkins likes to use, Che Adams can thrive.
Cureton still scoring... at nearly 40
Twenty-two years, 14 different clubs and just a couple of weeks from his 40th birthday.
Jamie Cureton might have been on the losing side in the east London derby but the Football League's oldest outfield player shows no sign of losing the knack.
He's vowed to hit 300 goals before hanging up his boots and Saturday's consolation - a youthfully impudent lob over onrushing goalkeeper Alex Cisak - leaves him with just 21 to go...
BEAGS' VERDICT:
I have done it myself, but not in the numbers he has produced!
He is a great guy who loves football. The fire still burns, the heart is as big as ever and the thirst for work and goals is still there for everybody to see.
He is a credit to himself, his family and his profession.
Believe me, when you get to that age, everything starts to ache. You struggle to get out of bed. Testimony to the shape he has kept himself in!
