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Image source, PA15 minutes gone in our three Championship games.
One goal and another disallowed so far. Early days, but plenty of potential for things to liven up.
Summary
Newcastle beat Reading for first win
Dwight Gayle (2), Matt Ritchie and Isaac Hayden on target
Blackburn's Shane Duffy scores two own goals and is sent off
Josh Scowen gives Barnsley 3-2 win over QPR
Bolton and Fleetwood win in League One
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Image source, PABolton hit the front at Bristol Roverspublished at 19:59 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Bristol Rovers 0-1 Bolton
Bolton have made an excellent start to life in League One and they've made a fast start at Bristol Rovers too.
Josh Vela has fired Wanderers in front from a tight angle, with Southend boss Phil Brown describing it as "counter-attacking football at its best" on BBC Radio Manchester.
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Newcastle 0-0 Reading
Newcastle's energetic start to this game continues.
Vurnon Anita went rampaging down the right side for the hosts before dinking a ball inside to the penalty box.
Ayoze Perez arrived at pace on the volley, but couldn't direct it on target.
GOALpublished at 19:55 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Barnsley 1-0 QPR - Watkins (4 mins)
Image source, Rex FeaturesEarly lead for Barnsley in their meeting against 100% QPR at Oakwell.
The visitors fail to clear a couple of headers from a Barnsley corner and Marley Watkins is there at the back post to nod in from six yards.
Quote MessageQPR had started quite brightly but they didn't defend the initial cross into the box or the following corner. Watkins was unmarked in the box and that is criminal.
Rob Scott, Former Fulham defender on BBC Radio London
YELLOW CARDpublished at 19:50 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Newcastle 0-0 Reading
Dwight Gayle can have no argument with that on second glance.
He went diving in for a header from Ayoze Perez's cross, but had his left arm fully outstretched as he made contact.
Ali Al-Habsi raced straight to the officials in protest. Gayle picks up a booking in the process.
Quote MessageGayle was never getting to it, so he put his left arm just behind his head and pushed it in with his hand. It's cheating.
Mick Gooding, Former Reading midfielder on BBC Radio Berkshire
DISALLOWED GOALpublished at 19:48 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Newcastle 0-0 Reading
Early drama at St James' Park.
Newcastle thought they had the lead inside two minutes through Dwight Gayle. He runs away in celebration, but it's been disallowed for a handball as he rose to head it home.
Relief for Reading and Jaap Stam.
Image source, PAKICK-OFFpublished at 19:45 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
They've gone a minute early at Newcastle, but we're off and running in tonight's three Championship games.
Let drama commence....
Anyone for an early goal?published at 19:44 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
#bbcrio2016
Keep your eyes open for a possible early goal in tonight's games.
Over in Rio at the Olympics, it took Neymar just 14 seconds earlier to open the scoring for hosts Brazil in their men's semi-final against Honduras.
Brazil's Neymar scores fastest Olympic goal
Brazil forward Neymar scores the quickest goal in Olympic history after just 14 seconds against Honduras in the men's semi-final at the Maracana in Rio.
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Newcastle v Reading (19:45 BST)
Teams already on their way out at St James' Park.
Rafa's ready for the off, are you?
Image source, Rex FeaturesVilla 'a work in progress' - Di Matteopublished at 19:38 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Image source, PAIt's not just Newcastle who are finding life in a division below tricky to adjust to - Aston Villa's start to the season has yielded one loss, one win and one draw.
Villa boss Roberto di Matteo says they need to time to turn around their fortunes.
"We're a work in progress. The players that have come in need to understand how we want to play," the Italian told BBC WM after seeing Huddersfield snatch a point off them on Tuesday.
"It's going to take time, but it's a shame because I thought we deserved a bit more [against Huddersfield]."
Tuesday night rewindpublished at 19:35 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Image source, Getty ImagesJust the three Championship games this evening, but nine fixtures in the division on Tuesday threw up their fair share of late drama.
There was injury-time woe as both of the second city's clubs conceded late equalisers while new boys Burton pulled off a shock win against fancied promotion chasers Sheffield Wednesday.
Relive all of Tuesday night's action as it happened.
Image source, Rex FeaturesListen to BBC local radio coveragepublished at 19:32 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Image source, Getty ImagesWe're not the only BBC service offering coverage of this evening's games.
You can also listen to BBC local radio commentary of the matches if you live within the relevant broadcast area.
Unfortunately, rights restrictions mean we cannot bring you the local radio commentaries online.
get involved Get Involvedpublished at 19:29 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
#bbcefl
Image source, Rex FeaturesInto the third game of the EFL season and it's that time when reality starts to bite at prospects for the season ahead.
Important to remember it's still early days, but if you had to sum up your side's start to the season in six words, what would it say?
Tweet us your team and a summary of their form so far using #bbcefl, external
Team newspublished at 19:27 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Barnsley v QPR
Barnsley name the same starting XI and bench that began Saturday's victory over Derby at Oakwell.
QPR make one change to the side that won at Cardiff on Sunday, with Yeni Ngbakoto replacing the injured Ben Gladwin.
Defender Nedum Onuoha makes his 150th appearance for the R's.
Barnsley: Davies, Bree, Roberts, Mawson, White, Hamill, Scowen, Hourihane, Kent, Bradshaw, Watkins.
Subs: Townsend, Yiadom, MacDonald, Moncur, D'Almeida, Payne, Lee.
QPR: Smithies, Hall, Caulker, Onuoha, Bidwell, Cousins, Henry, Luongo, Chery, Polter, Ngbakoto.
Subs: Ingram, Washington, El Khayati, Perch, Petrasso, Shodipo, Kakay.
Team newspublished at 19:25 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Cardiff City v Blackburn Rovers (19:45 BST)
Cardiff City manager Paul Trollope has raised some eyebrows with his selection, with the hosts not picking a single specialist striker in their starting XI.
Defender Jazz Richards is out injured and Wales international midfielder Emyr Huws remains on the bench for the Bluebirds.
Blackburn make three changes to the side beaten at Wigan, with Stephen Hendrie. Hope Akpan and Craig Conway replacing Adam Henley, Liam Feeney and Darragh Lenihan.
Cardiff: Marshall, Peltier, Morrison, Ecuele Manga, Whittingham, Ralls, Immers, John, Pilkington, Connolly, Gunnarsson.
Subs: Moore, Gounongbe, Noone, Harris, Huws, Zohore, Ajayi.
Blackburn: Steele, Greer, Lowe, Byrne, Stokes, Marshall, Graham, Hendrie, Akpan, Duffy, Conway.
Subs: Raya, Feeney, Gallagher, Guthrie, Lenihan, Mahoney, Wharton.
Quote MessageThat's a big call by Paul Trollope, especially as Cardiff are yet to score a single goal this season, with three games already gone.
Michael Pearlman, BBC Wales sport
Team newspublished at 19:23 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Newcastle v Reading (19:45 BST)
Image source, PANewcastle manager Rafael Benitez is without midfielders Moussa Sissoko and Mohamed Diame through ankle injuries and makes four changes from the home defeat by Huddersfield on Saturday.
Ayoze Perez replaces Diame with Yoan Gouffran in for Rolando Aarons, Ciaran Clark makes a first league start in defence and Matt Ritchie comes back into the starting line-up in place of captain Jamaal Lascelles.
Jaap Stam names an unchanged Reading side from the one defeated at Wolves.
Stephen Quinn returns among the substitutes following a knee injury.
Newcastle: Sels, Anita, Dummett, Mbemba, Clark, Ritchie, Hayden, Shelvey, Gouffran, Perez, Gayle.
Subs: Darlow, Janmatt, Lascelles, Hanley, Colback, Aarons, Armstrong.
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Our main focus tonight will be those three Championship matches, with updates on the League One action throughout.
Fancy some team news?
Tonight's fixturespublished at 19:18 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Image source, EmpicsJust the five games on the bill this evening with the pick of the fixtures arguably a meeting of Rafael Benitez and Jaap Stam at St James' Park.
It's won one, lost one so far in the Championship for the former Manchester United defender and his new club.
Can he claim a big scalp tonight for Reading on the road?
All matches kick-off at 19:45 BST.
Championship:
- Barnsley v QPR
- Cardiff v Blackburn
- Newcastle v Reading
League One:
- Bristol Rovers v Bolton
- Fleetwood v Oxford United
Talk of the Toonpublished at 19:15 British Summer Time 17 August 2016
Things I didn't think I'd be writing on 17 August: A city in the north east of England eagerly awaits its football club's first win of the season.
It wasn't supposed to be this way for Newcastle United in the Championship.
But this evening they face the prospect of losing their first three games of a league season for the first time since 1999 when Reading come to Toon.
Is Rafael Benitez finding there's more to contend with in the Championship than he originally thought?
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