The hosts have the chance to double their lead inside six minutes...

Alfie Kilgour hacks down Josh Stokes clumsily and Stokes will have the chance to make it 2-0.

A very bright start from the hosts.

A through ball finds Scott Hogan who is one on one with Craig MacGillivray but the linesman correctly flags as Hogan was beyond the last defender.

Certainly a statement of intent from MK.

Chance for the hosts inside 20 seconds.

A wonderful Cruyff-turn on the right hand side from Aaron Nemane does Ryan Johnson all ends up but the right wing-back's goalbound shot is blocked by Sam Hutchinson.

What a start that would have been!

Bradford have posted an unchanged team to battle the league leaders but Walsall are without midfielder Jamie Jellis.

The 24-year-old hasn't made the match day squad.

Reasons pending though he has been linked with a move away this January...

We are under way in the big League One games at Huddersfield and Cambridge United, while MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon and Bradford v Walsall are kicking-off too.

What do the next 90 minutes have in store for us? Let's see...

Glorious sunshine greets the players as the they head out of the tunnel in our four early kick-offs.

The atmosphere is building, must mean kick-off can only be moments away...

Birmingham City's draw with Wrexham on Thursday means that Wycombe Wanderers can catch up to - or even overtake - the league leaders with a win today while Huddersfield could close the gap on the leading pack in the early kick-off.

Meanwhile Reading and Leyton Orient play each other to have the chance of entering the playoff spots, but only if basement side Crawley Town manage to stun Stockport County.

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Game of the day in the entire EFL? It's certainly in the discussion…

The post Ian Evatt era at Bolton begins with a testing trip to Huddersfield, who are looking to close the gap on the top three, with Birmingham and Wrexham not in action after their Thursday night draw.

Julian Darby, Andy Taylor and Andy Tutte will be in interim charge of the Trotters at the John Smith’s Stadium seeking to end a three-match winless streak which culminated in a late defeat at home to Charlton on Tuesday night, in which Bolton allowed a lead to slip away spelling the end for Evatt.

Huddersfield also won at the Toughsheet, 4-0 in September, and also scored four in a win the last time these sides met in Yorkshire back in September 2015.

Their current four match winning streak in this fixture is their longest ever and if it becomes five today it will be Bolton’s worst run on the road at the Terriers in nearly 70 years.

Michael Duff’s men are unbeaten in 16, taking 36 points, their best league run in three years, while Bolton have won on just four of their past 29 visits to Yorkshire, losing 18 of those games and conceding more than twice a game on average.

None of the bottom four can escape the relegation zone but three points will do a lot to get them back in with a chance of escaping.

While both Blackpool and Peterborough will want to end their winless runs to ascent up towards the safety of the midtable.

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Cambridge United v Mansfield might not jump off the fixture list for everyone, but this is an intriguing game.

The Us are rock-bottom of League One and eight points from safety while Nigel Clough's Mansfield have slipped to 11th, though still only four points adrift of the play-off places, having played two games fewer than the sides they are chasing.

Cambridge have won just one of their past 13 league games, earning only eight points in total and averaging more than two goals a game conceded in that spell.

They also have a dreadful record against Mansfield, winning three of the past 19 league encounters and taking only three points from their past six home games against Town since a 3-1 win in April 2015.

The Stags also seem to have turned the corner on the road of late, having gone four without a victory on their travels from the start of November, they have taken six points from their past three away games.

Garry Monk’s men did end a five game losing streak with a point at Bolton last Saturday, while Mansfield were losing at home to Wycombe, but it’s the visitors who will be hot favourites to complete the double over the Us, after their 2-1 win at home in September.

With Walsall untouchable today, the rest of the field eye the two remaining automatic promotion spots.

Seven teams are eligible - including the Saddlers' hosts Bradford City.

Swindon's come-from-behind 2-1 win at Newport on Friday night has hauled them up the standings, leaving County looking firmly over their shoulder.

There are some fascinating fixtures on the slate this afternoon with basement-boys Carlisle heading to Fleetwood, second-bottom Morecambe on the road at Colchester and Tranmere, who are above the dotted line with a five-point cushion at home to Gillingham, who have slid into the bottom eight themselves.

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League Two's top scorer Nathan Lowe may have departed league leaders Walsall to return to parent club Stoke City but last time out showed that his absence was not too much missed.

They found the net four times against MK Dons to remain 12 points ahead of the pack in the fourth division and extend their club record winning run to nine games.

"There was certainly no avoiding the fact Nathan had gone," boss Mat Sadler told BBC Radio WM.

"I made the point of saying to the lads, 'Please send Nathan messages and let him know we're happy for him,' but then we've got our job to do. And we just carried on."

Can they take their winning streak into two figures?

Standing in their way is Bradford, a team also competing for promotion and unbeaten in five league matches.

Expect the Bantam choir to be in full voice to welcome the title chasers.

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AFC Wimbledon take the trip up the M25 to meet old foes MK Dons in a grudge match in League Two at lunchtime.

The visitors have great recent form in this particular fixture, beating their Buckinghamshire rivals in the reverse fixture in the league and dumping them out in the FA Cup earlier in the season.

Perhaps more importantly to the Wombles today, however, is what a win would do to their league position.

Johnnie Jackson's side sit just one point outside the automatic promotion places behind Port Vale, whilst having two games in hand on the Valiants.

MK Dons, who currently sit 12th, are however yet to lose a league game at home to AFC Wimbledon in their relatively short history since that infamous move which was completed in 2004.

You may have heard there is a little bit of needle between these two sides and today should be another classic in one of the standout fixtures of the League Two calendar.

We're in for a treat this lunchtime...

League One

Cambridge v Mansfield

Huddersfield v Bolton

League Two

Bradford v Walsall

MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon

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Good afternoon and welcome to your regular feast of football on a Saturday afternoon.

As much as we love the Premier League and Championship, whisper it quietly but League One and Two are where the most mouthwatering action is this afternoon.

We have grudge matches, local derbies, managerless big-guns, relegation scrappers and promotion processions... and it's still on January.

Stick the kettle on, park yourself somewhere comfy and enjoy the next five-or-so hours of helter-skelter EFL action with us.