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It's been a superb start to the campaign for Championship pace-setters Swansea.

Vitor Matos' men came back from a goal down to beat Norwich 2-1 on Saturday and strengthen their place at the top of the standings.

They've made four changes from the team that started the win over the Canaries as Jenson Seelt, Zan Vipotnik, Marko Stamenic and Elijah Just all come into the XI.

Millwall claimed a 1-0 victory at lowly Preston to move up into the top eight and, in what looks set to be a very evenly contested division, will have designs on challenging for a play-off place or better.

The Lions make two alterations, as Jordi Osei-Tutu and Mark Sykes come in.

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Birmingham City have quietly been going about their business and are unbeaten in their past three games with two wins and a draw to climb up to seventh in the Championship table.

Blues enjoyed a 1-0 West Midlands derby win away at West Brom on Saturday but it’s their home form that hasn’t quite hit its usual heights so far this season, having been so formidable at St Andrew’s in the previous two campaigns.

Chris Davies’ side have drawn all four of their home matches in the league and will hope to change that tonight against the division’s bottom side.

Preston arrive off the back of a 1-0 home defeat by Millwall in new boss Graham Alexander’s first game in charge at the weekend after he was appointed to replace the sacked Paul Heckingbottom.

The Lilywhites have won just once all season (D1 L7) and need to start picking up results sooner rather than later if they are to get out of danger.

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Neither Wrexham or West Bromwich Albion come into this in blistering form of late.

The Red Dragons have won just one of their past five games (D3 L1) but have only lost twice all season so far, with Phil Parkinson’s side the early-season draw specialists with five matches ending all square.

But as Albion will be able to attest to, results at this early stage of the season can push you up or down the table at a rate of knots, so a win tonight would leave those of a Wrexham persuasion feeling a lot better about life with a play-off spot in sight.

The Baggies were top just three games ago, but failure to win since then with a draw and two back-to-back local derby defeats to Wolves and Birmingham means they have slipped to ninth.

James Morrison has not gone four league games without victory since taking over as boss in February and will be keen to right the ship after what had been a positive start to the campaign with four wins from the opening six games.

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There are many unwelcome things which have happened to Burnley and their fans over the past year, so adding one more to the list you would think would not matter too much.

Becoming only the third team in EFL or Premier League history to go 20 games or more without a home win is not something to shout about, more to be avoided, but a failure to beat Charlton at Turf Moor tonight will see them join a rather exclusive club which at the moment only has Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday as members.

Saturday's 4-0 demolition of Watford at Vicarage Road does at least point to better things on the horizon for the Clarets and Charlton arriving with a less than enviable away record might be just what they need.

"This group has a lot of quality. We have to perform like this every week and in the new training sessions," said boss Nicky Hayen after the victory at Watford and he brings Jamie Vardy into his line-up tonight.

Only Watford have fewer than Charlton's five away wins in the Championship since the start of last season and a six-game winless run to take into this evening's match is hardly ideal preparation.

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Not much to smile about for these two at the moment.

Cardiff have lost four of their past six outings, Watford have been beaten in five with just one win apiece during those respective runs.

That may seem a little strange for the Bluebirds given they are among the division's top sides for shots on goal, shots on target, average possession and are one of seven yet to be beaten at home.

"There is a long way to go, but it could be a long season because they could be in this type of position for most of the season," said former Cardiff, Everton and Wales captain Kevin Ratcliffe after seeing them lose at Blackburn on Saturday.

Mind you, it could be worse, they could be Watford.

The Hornets were thrashed 4-0 at home by previously winless Burnley on Saturday and have lost eight of their past nine games on the road - the past three without scoring.

"As a lifetime supporter of Watford FC, I am very upset and disappointed at the decline over the past few weeks - I really feel for the supporters who have to watch this," said former owner Elton John in a now-deleted post on Instagram at the weekend.

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There are some similarities about Bristol City and Blackburn, who meet at Ashton Gate.

Both started the campaign with new managers and both will hope to close in on the play-off places this evening.

The Robins have enjoyed a decent enough start to life under Michael Skubala and despite picking up just one win from their past four games (D1 L2), they still remain firmly in striking distance of the top spots.

City sit at the bottom of six teams tied on 14 points from fifth to 10th, separated only by goal difference, so a win tonight could propel them right up the table.

Tony Mowbray’s Rovers return has been a success so far with Blackburn sitting 13th with 12 points from nine games - a marked improvement on last season when they had seven points at this stage of the campaign and were hovering just above the drop zone.

Blackburn beat Cardiff 2-1 at the weekend to extend their unbeaten run to three matches (W2 D1) and will also have half an eye on trying to muscle in and around the top eight by the end of the night.

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Leaders Swansea know only a win at Millwall tonight will gurantee them maintaining their position at the top of the table - anything less and Middlesbrough can capitalise with a victory of their own at in-form Stoke.

Cardiff's meeting with Watford kind of already feels big at the wrong end of the table while Burnley seek a first home win of the campaign against Charlton.

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Good evening!

Seems like we were only just doing this, doesn't it? No sooner than one game ends in the EFL, another begins.

Two days have passed since the last round of fixtures concluded and we have another full midweek schedule to enjoy, starting with eight games tonight.

Forget the Champions League, we're all about the Championship here.

Welcome along. Let's get to it.