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Who will get the better of this match between two neighbours in the Championship table at Deepdale?

Just to let you know that they'll be kicking-off 10 minutes late at Forest Green against Mansfield Town due to thick fog before the match.

The referee has passed it fit to play, but they're going to start 10 minutes later than planned at 19:55 GMT....

BBC local radio

As ever, if you live in the local area of any of this evening's EFL fixtures, you can hear commentary on BBC local radio.

Check your local listings and frequencies for more details, but one station who will be hoping for more goals on their airwaves will be BBC Radio London from Craven Cottage!

One match also taking place in the Premier League this evening as Brighton host Chelsea at the Amex Stadium.

You can follow all the action right here as well as listening to full match commentary from BBC Radio 5 Live.

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Unbeaten in 11 games in all competitions Forest Green Rovers are blowing away everyone in League Two.

Top of the table by seven points they face seventh-placed Mansfield Town who in 14 games have only lost twice - and one of those was at home to Championship side Middlesbrough in the FA Cup.

Victory for Rovers would see the gap at the top increase to 10 points, but the Stags could move up to fourth with a win and results go their way.

Should Mansfield lose Port Vale could end the night in their spot in the play-offs if they win at home to Salford City.

Meanwhile the three sides immediately above the relegation places are all in action as Colchester United travel to fifth-placed Sutton United, Stevenage host Crawley Town and Carlisle United entertain Hartlepool United.

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With Rotherham's game with Lincoln City postponed Wigan Athletic can leapfrog the Millers into third place if they can win at struggling Morecambe.

The Latics are in superb form, having won six of their last seven in all competitions and not lost in League One since 26 October.

Bottom side Doncaster can get off the foot of the table, although they will have to win at FA Cup giant killers Cambridge United, who have won their last two games since knocking out Newcastle.

Meanwhile AFC Wimbledon have a chance to put three sides between them and the relegation places if they can win at Portsmouth.

As mentioned, we've also got matches in Leagues One and Two this evening.

Let's tee-up the action to look out for...

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After the disappointment of losing to a cut-adrift Derby side at the weekend, Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom makes three changes, with Enda Stevens, Conor Hourihane and Rhian Brewster all coming in for Rhys Norrington-Davies, Sander Berge and David McGoldrick.

Scott Sinclair and Tom Barkhuizen were on the bench for Preston North End's draw at home to Birmingham last Saturday, but they are brought in to start tonight, replacing Greg Cunningham and Ched Evans.

Preston: Iversen; Potts, Sinclair, Bauer, Van den Berg, Hughes, Browne (capt), Whiteman, Johnson, Riis, Barkhuizen.

Subs: Ripley, Rafferty, Lindsay, McCann, Cunningham, Maguire, Evans.

Sheff Utd: Foderingham, Bogle, Robinson, Stevens, Basham, Egan, Hourihane, Norwood, Ndiaye, Sharp (capt), Brewster.

Subs: Eastwood, Gordon, Norrington-Davies, Slater, Berge, McGoldrick, Burke.

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As the table shows, tonight's match at Deepdale features two teams with similar records in the Championship this season. Sheffield United are arguably the side in slightly better form, having won four consecutive league games prior to defeat at Derby at the weekend.

Preston manager Ryan Lowe has been in the job for just over a month after leaving League One side Plymouth Argyle. In that time, he has overseen three Championship matches without defeat, with a late comeback to win at Stoke earlier this month a highlight.

What is interesting is that Lowe's side have won just one of the last seven matches between these two sides when they have hosted, but don't let that sway your prediction for how this one will go.

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Unsurprisingly after 7-0 and 6-2 wins in the past seven days, Marco Silva names an unchangfed Fulham starting line-up.

Aleksandar Mitrovic begins the evening on 27 Championship goals so far for the campaign, can he reach 30 by the end of the night?

Birmingham City meanwhile make just the one change from the side which started the 1-1 draw at Preston on Saturday.

Ryan Woods replaces Jordan James in midfield as Norwich loanee Onel Hernandez continues his strike partnership with Lukas Jutkiewicz.

Fulham XI: Rodak; Odoi, Robinson, Adarabioyo, Ream, Reed, Cairney (capt), Wilson, Kebano, Carvalho, Mitrovic.

Subs: Gazzaniga, Tete, Mawson, Decordova-Reid, Chalobah, Onomah, Muniz.

Birmingham XI: Etheridge; Colin, Bela, Mengi, Roberts, Pedersen, Woods, Sunjic, Gardner, Hernandez, Jutkiewicz (capt).

Subs: Trueman, Masampu, Friend, James, Campbell, Bellingham, Hogan.

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Goals, goals and more goals is what Fulham have been all about lately.

Thirteen of them in the past two big wins against Reading and Bristol City with Aleksandar Mitrovic and Neeskens Kebano netting eight of those.

Having slipped off the summit and out of the top two while postponements disrupted their festive season fixtures, Marco Silva's side start the evening with a two-point lead over Bournemouth and Blackburn and will be looking to make that five with a third successive win.

Birmingham City meanwhile come into this one winless in their past five league games. Scott Hogan came off the bench on Saturday to earn them a point at Preston but Lee Bowyer's men are still much closer to the bottom three than they would like in 18th.

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Championship:

• Fulham v Birmingham City
• Preston v Sheffield United

League One:

• AFC Wimbledon v Portsmouth
• Cambridge United v Doncaster Rovers
• Morecambe v Wigan Athletic

League Two:

• Carlisle United v Hartlepool United
• Forest Green v Mansfield Town
• Port Vale v Salford City
• Stevenage v Crawley Town
• Sutton United v Colchester United

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Midweek midwinter league football under the lights continues as yet another round of rearranged fixtures come careering into the seemingly non-stop football schedule.

Ten matches on the agenda for you across the English Football League tonight with a pretty significant one for the team currently top of the Championship as well as the promotion contenders in Leagues One and Two also in action.

Kick-off in all of those is around about 15 minutes away, settle yourselves down and come join us...