Hull City make a change up top - Adama Diomande is coming on in place of Nouha Dicko.

Dicko hit the post in the first half, but has not had much of an impact after the break.

It is the second Hull change - a few moments ago Jon Toral was replaced by Jarrod Bowen.

So, as it stands, Cardiff City are four points clear of third-placed Bristol City and four points off leaders Wolves with one game to go before the halfway point of the season.

Can anyone break into the top two, or will it be our current leaders who will make the Premier League come May?

Let us know on #bbcefl.

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Millwall extended their unbeaten run to three Championship games as they beat Middlesbrough at The Den, increasing the pressure on Garry Monk as his side fell below Ipswich and Preston to 10th.

Middlesbrough boss Garry Monk told BBC Tees: "It's a very direct game, very physical, very straightforward in terms of what you need to do well and at the risk of repeating myself it's schoolboy errors again.

"I feel like a broken record at this moment in time - we prepared all week exactly for what was expected and naive errors cost us the goals and we didn't do enough to recover.

"There were a few situations where we got out-muscled, bullied in those situations too many times."

Michael Pearlman
BBC Wales Sport at the Cardiff City Stadium

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Sol Bamba has developed a reputation at Cardiff City for only scoring important goals and he appears to have done it again.

It was hard to see where the breakthrough would come from, but Bamba's pinpoint header is huge for Cardiff.

Hull fans, of course, will point to an offside flag that maybe should have come, but didn't....

Hull have a free-kick almost 30 yards out, but Jon Toral's effort drifts into the arms of keeper Neil Etheridge. A wasted opportunity.

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Fantastic block by Hull's Michael Dawson as Anthony Pilkington shot from four yards out.

Junior Hoilett delivers a high ball in from the right for Cardiff, Ondrej Mazuch makes a hash of the clearance and Pilkington pounces, but the former England defender is there to stop the danger.

Sol Bamba goes into the book for a high foot. The Bluebirds' skipper kicks the ball at head height with Jon Toral's face millimetres away.

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In-form Derby boosted their promotion hopes with a win over play-off rivals Aston Villa, who remain fifth but are now winless in three games and just one point clear of seventh-placed Leeds.

Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce told BBC WM: "Mistakes were what cost us the match really and we're always chasing from the first minute - the number of times we've surrendered possession and unfortunately in a big game you can't make mistakes like that because they cost you.

"Overall, in a big game, we can't make the elementary mistakes we made today."

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Cardiff win a free-kick about 35 yards out. It is floated into the box and Junior Hoilett misses a sitter.

Headed back across goal by Sol Bamba, Hoilett heads it wide with the goal gaping - Cardiff's best chance so far.

Right, off we go again. Let's hope the second half is a bit more entertaining than the first.

And don't forget we will bring you reaction to the other Championship games played earlier today throughout the second half.

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Clinical finishing proved the difference as Ipswich Town ended Reading's five-match unbeaten run, with the Royals losing pace with the play-off contenders.

Reading boss Jaap Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire: "We need to look at ourselves in what we need to do better, and you don't want to use it as an excuse but the referee was very bad.

"The decisions that went against us were not right for us on many occasions.

"We don't have a Christmas feeling, I can tell you that - at least I haven't, because it's just like any other week."

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Jordan Hugill scored the only goal of the game as Preston beat promotion-chasing Sheffield United, who have now lost three successive games to slip away from the automatic promotion places.

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield: "They thoroughly deserved to win it - they did the basics right and we didn't do enough as a team that represents me and this football club.

"We have to find a way - we're in a little bit of a hole and we need to get out of it.

"I need to get into the players, which I will do, and we need to find an answer because we're not used to this and we're not enjoying it."

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Defender Jack Robinson scored twice - his first goals in senior football - as QPR picked up their first away win in 18 attempts, dating back to February, to leave Birmingham bottom of the Championship table.

Birmingham City manager Steve Cotterill told BBC WM: "We've put enough attacking players out on the pitch since I've been here to have won more games than we've won.

"But when their confidence is low and they're nervous on the ball that's what you get.

"If something goes wrong for us on a Saturday the anxiety creeps in and that's where they are right now."

While we're at half-time at the Cardiff City Stadium, we'll start to bring you some reaction from this afternoon's Championship games.

We'll start at St Andrew's where Birmingham City's season went from bad to worse, with defeat by QPR leaving Steve Cotterill's team bottom of the table.

Michael Pearlman
BBC Wales Sport at the Cardiff City Stadium

Watch this space... Cardiff boss Neil Warnock is becoming more and more agitated and animated, with his counterpart, Nigel Adkins, hardly a shrinking violet.

The battle of the bench is matching if not bettering the one on the pitch...

Goalless at the break and not a game that will get onto the 'Greatest First Halves in EFL Football' Christmas DVD.

Nouha Dicko hit the post for Hull, while Cardiff have had a couple of half chances through Lee Tomlin.

Let's hope it gets better after the break.

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One minute of stoppage time....

Lee Tomlin has another chance - the Cardiff attacker's shot from the edge of the box is fumbled by Allan McGregor, but his defence gets him out of trouble and hack it clear.

Lee Tomlin blasts over the bar for Cardiff. Eyeing up a dropping ball Tomlin hits it on the volley, but it is well over Allan McGregor's goal. But at least we have had a couple of chances......