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It all just feels a bit mid-table and a tale of what might have been. These two have relatively recent experiences of the Premier League but getting back there seems a way off at the moment.

The Canaries are in their third season back in the second tier with a heavy play-off defeat by Leeds last season perhaps the best evidence they still have work to do to be genuine challengers.

Johannes Hoff Thorup made the switch from Danish side Nordsjaelland in the summer but has found resurrecting the Norfolk side harder than maybe expected.

In Borja Sainz they do boast the division's leading scorer although he's midway through a six-game ban for spitting.

Six points short of the play-offs, nine clear of trouble - promotion may have to wait another year.

The same goes for Swansea who are now in their seventh successive season in the Championship after seven in the Premier League.

Two appearances in the play-offs failed to produce promotion and with Luke Williams now in charge they are on their fifth manager since relegation in 2018.

Goals and scoring them is the main issue with only Plymouth and Stoke scoring fewer than the Swans' 10 on the road and the Welshmen have lost their past three EFL away games, the last of which was a 3-0 hammering at their friends down the road, Cardiff.

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Kenilworth Road hosts an encounter that smacks of fear and trepidation with two managers and two sides desperate for a victory.

Matt Bloomfield has picked up a draw and a defeat in his two games since switching from Wycombe to the Luton hotseat.

The Hatters have fallen to 23rd and, make no mistake, the threat of successive relegations is very real as one point out of a possible 18 underlines their struggles.

Alex Neil has been in the Millwall job only a couple of weeks longer than Bloomfield and he is still waiting for that sweet taste of three points.

They should have had it against Cardiff on Tuesday, but lost a 2-0 lead and conceded a 98th-minute equaliser to leave the Scot fuming.

It's two points from four games for him amid a longer Lions malaise of only one win from 13 and now they are only four points clear of the bottom three.

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Hull City's win at Sheffield United last night has put the cat among the pigeons at the foot of the Championship.

The Tigers can sit back today and watch the others take chunks out of each other with some pivotal match-ups.

Cardiff against Derby, Luton at home to Millwall and Stoke's meeting with Oxford all have plenty riding on them. And the latter two of those are among the matches first up.

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Burnley, Leeds and Sunderland will have taken huge encouragement from Sheffield United's surprise home defeat by Hull City last night.

With the Clarets and Leeds meeting on Monday evening, Sunderland can push themselves into third place with a win over Plymouth today.

Watford's trip to Coventry now seems to take on even more importance following speculation surrounding the future of the Hornets head coach Tom Cleverley this week.

Bristol City's run of one defeat from their past six games has moved them to within four points of sixth-placed Blackburn and they face off at Ashton Gate.

Keep an eye on QPR as well, one loss from 13 matches has them in the frame going into a game with Sheffield Wednesday.

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Hull City kickstarted a weekend of Championship action with a shock, turning over high-flying Sheffield United 3-0 at Bramall Lane last night.

It was a win which put the brakes on the Blades’ gathering momentum at the top of the table and one which denied Chris Wilder’s men the chance to go top ahead of Leeds and Burnley clashing on Monday.

But it was also a win which showed all the supposed underdogs across today’s fixtures what can be achieved with front-foot football and self-belief with Ruben Selles' side full value for the points.

Read about the weekend’s opening salvo here.

A big one at the foot of the table, sees Luton host Millwall, as well as a mid-table clash between Norwich and Swansea, while Oxford journey to Stoke, all at 12:30 GMT.

We then have seven more Championship games for you at 15:00 GMT. Here's today's schedule:

• Luton v Millwall (12:30)
• Norwich v Swansea (12:30)
• Stoke v Oxford (12:30)
• Bristol City v Blackburn
• Cardiff v Derby
• Coventry v Watford
• Preston v Middlesbrough
• QPR v Sheffield Wednesday
• Sunderland v Plymouth
• West Brom v Portsmouth

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Ten matches, 20 teams and something at stake in all of them.

Teams on a roll, sides in a slump, new managers, bosses on the rocks, home bankers, relegation dogfights, play-off tussles.

There's a little bit of everything in today's programme.

Stick with us for the afternoon as we bring you the thrills and spills as they happen. And the beauty is - we can try to predict what may happen, but this zany, zany league can usually confound us.

It is the Championship after all!