Blackpool's day started poorly after Cardiff's win against Bristol City left them well adrift of safety.

Jordan Gabriel knows his side are up against it in their pursuit of Championship survival and shoots towards the Burnley goal, with the game still goalless, but his effort is blocked.

Joao Pedro volleys towards the Preston goal but North End keeper Freddie Woodman makes the save.

Pedro is then brought down and tries to claim a penalty but the referee waves his calls away.

Swansea leading scorer Joel Piroe is the man the visitors will want chance to fall to, but he fails to properly catch his latest effort.

His tame effort after being teed up by Jay Fulton is easy for the goalkeeper to deal with.

Wigan are seven points adrift of safety as things stand and they desperately need a goal if they are to mount any sort of charge to stay in the Championship this season.

Danel Sinani puts a cross into the Birmingham box which is met by Will Keane who turns and shoots but Blues keeper John Ruddy makes the save.

Two half-time changes from Tony Mowbray as Luke O'Nien and Edouard Michut have replaced Joe Gelhardt and Aji Alese.

Stoke have made an alteration in goal as Jack Bonham comes on for Matija Sarkic.

The Black Cats need to find a goal if they are to keep pace with the teams above them in the play-off spots.

Preston come close to taking a second half lead against Watford.

Troy Parrott whips in a cross from the left wing and Keinan Davis deflects it towards his own goal and forces Hornets keeper Daniel Bachmann into making a save.

Huddersfield are in a hurry to find their way back into this game.

After some excellent work from Scott High to win the ball back, Matthew Pearson tees up an effort from distance. It, however, is deflected for a corner.

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It hasn’t taken long for Plymouth to take the lead in the second half – Ryan Hardie has struck in the opening minute!

As it stands that puts the Pilgrims just a point behind Sheffield Wednesday who are still goalless with Peterborough.

Just nine goals in the first 45 minutes of our nine 3pm Championship games.

Surely we can double that at least in the second half?!

Cardiff City came out on top against Bristol City in the Severnside derby to ease their relegation fears.

Defeat, against a Bluebird side that ended with 10 men, halted the Robins' nine-game unbeaten league run.

You can read all about how that one went in the link below.

The race for that second automatic promotion spot was made a whole lot tighter earlier today with in-form Blackburn edging to victory against second-placed Sheffield United.

You can read the match report from that one by hitting the link below.

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Hull City saw off Championship play-off hopefuls West Bromwich Albion in Friday night's Championship fixture as they claimed only their seventh home league win of the season.

Ghana striker Benjamin Tetteh, brought in for his first home start since the tragic loss of one of his best friends Christian Atsu in the Turkey-Syria earthquake in early February, struck a memorable first goal for the club.

"He's had an emotional few weeks," said Tigers boss Liam Rosenior. "The earthquake in Turkey really affected him. One of Benji's best friends was Christian Atsu. He's been down so I'm sure he'll dedicate that goal to him."

You can read the match report here.

During the half-time respite, let's recap the Championship action to have already taken place...

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• Leyton Orient are looking good for their 22nd win of the season – they had the lead after 12 minutes against Swindon with a goal from Omar Beckles.
• Second-placed Stevenage went behind to bottom club Rochdale after just seven minutes and Danny Lloyd added a second just before the half-hour mark.
• Third placed Carlisle have the lead 2-0 against FA Cup heroes Grimsby.
• At the bottom – nothing doing for second-bottom Crawley – they are goalless at Northampton.
• Third-bottom Hartlepool could drop into the bottom two this evening - they are a goal up at Tranmere thanks to Callum Cooke.

• Matt Bloomfield’s first game in charge of Wycombe is going well with his side leading Exeter through Wolves loanee Chem Campbell's goal after only two minutes.
• Derby lead Shrewsbury 2-0 thanks to Haydon Roberts’ early goal and David McGoldrick’s finish in first-half injury time – that’s his 16th of the campaign.
• Ipswich are in total control over Burton with Conor Chaplin’s 15th goal of the league season added to by Nathan Broadhead and Freddie Ladapo.
• Things are not getting any better for Oxford after the sacking of manager Karl Robinson as the Yellows trail Lincoln through Daniel Mandroiu's penalty.
• Aaron Donnelly’s first league goal has seen Port Vale take a 1-0 lead over MK Dons into the break.
• Myles Peart-Harris put bottom side Forest Green in front but since then it has all gone wrong for Rovers who went down to 10 men before conceding an equaliser in two minutes just before half-time.
• Leaders Sheffield Wednesday and second-placed Plymouth are both goalless in their games against Peterborough and Charlton respectively.