Aaron McLean’s EFL takeaways including Wrexham, Bradford City and Gillingham

Bradford City’s 58-year wait for a win over Luton Town has enabled them to usurp Sheffield Wednesday at the top of League One. The Bantams have only scored seven goals in seven games but have conceded just four – the joint-best defensive record in the EFL. Predictably, given his history at Deepdale as a player, Graham Alexander has been linked with the vacancy at Preston North End.

McLean: “Bradford are a massive club, you only have to listen to the noise they make at Valley Parade and the support they get and Graham Alexander is an outstanding manager who is at the right club for him to continue progressing.

“This season, their bouncebackability has stood out. They won their first two games, then after back-to-back defeats you are looking at them and thinking, ‘oh was it just a good start’ but then they go and win three in a row, so even in adversity they can bounce back and respond in the right way.

“Is their lack of goals sustainable for a promotion challenge? No, probably not but, at the moment, it hasn’t needed to be because they have been so good defensively and so hard to beat.

“And that’s from front to back and when they do get their noses in front, they know how to see games out.

“I expect their conversion rate to improve and Bobby Pointon is a fantastic young striker who I have tipped to be one of the best strikers in the division over the next few seasons.”