No chances so far. The pace is high but both teams have settled pretty well.

Brentford's Said Benrahma will be carrying something extra home with him - today's match ball - after his hat-trick in the Bees' 5-1 win over Hull in the Championship.

Sheffield United fake a long throw-in routine. The ball is instead played short and crossed in, where it is kept in the box before the ever-alert Billy Sharp hooks it over.

Not a lot of thought went into that and it is easily cleared.

A free-kick for the hosts, about 50 yards from goal and pretty central.

A good run down the left by Marvin Johnson for Sheffield United, he finds a yard and puts in a decent cross which is cleared.

At the other end, the Baggies break and Dwight Gayle, easy to pick out as he is booed by the Blades fans, is crowded out.

An encouraging tempo so far.

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A nice lively start by the home side. Jay Rodriguez has an early chance to shoot and takes it. He probably wished he hadn't as he thumps it hopelessly over from 20 or so yards.

A reminder, also, that we'll bring you reaction to some of today's earlier Championship games while we bring you updates from this match.

Away we go at The Hawthorns.

The teams are out. All set and all to play for.

Sheffield United have dropped to third after the afternoon action but a win would take them back up to second.

A Baggies win will put them third.

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Darren Moore has done a fine job as West Brom boss following relegation from the Premier League last season.

The man in the opposite dugout today, Chris Wilder, is a big fan.

"I played with Mooro and I count him as a pal," the Blades boss told the Sheffield Star.

"He is a proper competitor and a proper man. There’s no coincidence that when he came in towards the end of the season, his presence galvanised a really talented group of players.

"If he’d come in a few weeks earlier, I think they’d have stayed up. But I think we’ve got a really talented group, really good lads, too.”

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Sheffield United top scorer Billy Sharp returns, the 22-goal striker having been rested last weekend when Chris Wilder's men won 4-0 at home to Reading.

David McGoldrick, who himself has 11 goals in the league so far, also starts. Scott Hogan and Gary Madine drop to the bench.

Sheff Utd: Henderson, Cranie, Egan, Stevens, Freeman, Norwood, Dowell, Fleck, Johnson, Sharp, McGoldrick.

Subs: Basham, Hogan, Madine, Coutts, Stearman, Duffy, Moore.

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West Brom have Dwight Gayle is back and available after a two-game ban for diving - and he starts up front with Jay Rodriguez.

Both men have 16 Championship goals this season. Matt Phillips and Gareth Barry also start for the Baggies.

West Brom: Johnstone, Holgate, Dawson, Hegazi, Gibbs, Livermore, Barry, Harper, Gayle, Murphy, Montero, Rodriguez.

Subs: Bartley, Johansen, Montero, Edwards, Bond, Adarabioyo, Field.

Time to check on the team news at The Hawthorns...

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A word of caution though about our guaranteed goal fest. While the Baggies are banging them in at one end and conceding them willy nilly at the other, Chris Wilder's Sheffield United side have the third most miserly defence in the league, behind Middlesbrough and Bristol City.

They have only lost once in 11 Championship matches, winning seven along the way.

Can the Baggies breach that Blades backline?

Two of the top four.

Two teams in the top three goalscoring sides in the division.

A player on each team in the top six individual Championship scoring charts.

Surely goals are on the agenda at The Hawthorns?

What do you mean 0-0?

At the bottom of the Championship, Wigan move up a place to 19th after their point at home to bottom side Ipswich.

Millwall's loss at home to Preston means their gap to safety is down to four points - neither Reading or Rotherham could take advantage after they drew 1-1.

Bolton stay where they were after losing to Leeds, while Ipswich almost cut the gap to three points were it not for that late equaliser by the Latics.

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With West Brom still to play Sheffield United this evening, here's how the top of the Championship looks right now.

Norwich stay top after that dramatic win over Bristol City, while Leeds go above the Blades ahead of their game at The Hawthorns.

Middlesbrough stay fifth but open up a gap to Bristol City - the Robins will drop out of the top six if Derby can beat Nottingham Forest on Monday.

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And breathe...

What a topsy-turvy afternoon in the EFL. And there's still one more match to come!

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• Leaders Lincoln end a run of four draws in a row with a comfortable 2-0 success against Morecambe.
• All the top three win as Bury keep the Imps in sight, coming from 1-0 down to beat Paul Scholes's Oldham 3-1, while Tyler Walker grabs the winner as Mansfield, who had lost two in a row, beat fellow high-flyers Forest Green 1-0. Walker was sent off in stoppage time.
• Yeovil's new owners have a great start, watching their side climb out of the relegation zone with a 1-0 win over Cambridge.
• Macclesfield are pegged back for a 1-1 draw by Crawley and stay second from bottom, ahead of Notts County who lose a second consecutive game, going down 1-0 at Tranmere.

• Fourth-placed Portsmouth have a penalty saved as they draw at home to second-placed Barnsley.
• Third-placed Sunderland take advantage by winning at Bristol Rovers and they're within two points of the Tykes.
• Big away wins at the bottom for Shrewsbury and Oxford, who climb out of the bottom four in League One.
• Walsall play 84 minutes with 10 men but get a vital win over Bradford, easing some of the pressure on Saddlers boss Dean Keates.