91Èȱ¬

Image source, Rex Features

The last few weeks have been a bit of a reality check for Leeds supporters after their flying start under new boss Thomas Christiansen.

Four defeats in five matches, including a 3-0 loss at rivals Sheffield Wednesday, has seen the chasing pack close in - although they remain in fifth.

Tonight's opponents Derby have won three on the bounce, are unbeaten in six matches and would move into the play-offs with victory at Elland Road.

Image source, Getty Images

Having beaten second-place Wolves on Saturday, QPR now have a dig at the league leaders and make just one change to the side, with David Wheeler replacing Joel Lynch. Sheffield United's trip to Loftus Road brings three changes, John Lundstram, Clayton Donaldson and David Brooks come in for Chris Wilder's table-toppers.

QPR: Smithies, Cousins, Baptiste, Robinson, Bidwell, Wheeler, Luongo, Scowen, Freeman, Washington, Sylla.

Sheffield United: Blackman, Baldock, Stevens, O'Connell, Carter-Vickers, Basham, Coutts, Brooks, Lundstram, Donaldson, Clarke

Wednesday change three of their back four, bringing in Liam Palmer, Morgan Fox and skipper Glenn Loovens from the side which drew 1-1 with Barnsley. Millwall hand starts to Tom Elliott, Shane Ferguson and Fred Onyedinma.

Sheffield Wednesday: Westwood; Palmer, Lees, Loovens (c), Fox; Wallace, Butterfield, Bannan, Reach; Rhodes, Hooper.

Millwall: Archer; McLaughlin, Cooper, Hutchinson, Meredith; Ferguson, Onyedinma, Wallace, Tunnicliffe, Saville; Elliott.

Image source, Rex Features

Denis Odoi and Stefan Johansen come in for Fulham. Bristol City defender Nathan Baker misses out with a knee injury and Matty Taylor is dropped to the bench, with Eros Pisano and Korey Smith starting.

Fulham: Button; Fredericks, Kalas, Ream, Odoi; Sessegnon, Cairney (c), McDonald, Johansen, Ayite; Kamara.

Bristol City: Fielding; Pisano, Wright (c), Flint, Bryan; O'Dowda, Brownhill, Smith, Pack; Paterson, Reid.

Fikayo Tomori, Jackson Irvine and Kevin Stewart start for Hull in place of Ola Aina, Markus Henriksen and Kamil Grosicki. Boro are unchanged, but Ashley Fletcher replaces Patrick Bamford on the bench.

Hull: McGregor, Tomori, Dawson, Hector, Clark, Meyler, Larsson, Stewart, Bowen, Irvine, Campbell.

Middlesbrough: Randolph, Christie, Ayala, Gibson, Da Silva, Tavernier, Howson, Leadbitter, Downing, Assombalonga, Braithwaite.

Good to see Craven Cottage getting into the Halloween spirit.

Who's in their non-spooky XI?

Image source, Rex Features

It's Halloween.

And this is your chance to get creative.

We want to hear players who could make your Spooky XI...

The EFL has already done their one.

Think you can do better? Get in touch using #bbcefl

Image source, EFL

Burton have made two changes from the Ipswich loss, bringing in Sean Scannell and Hope Akpan. Paul Heckingbottom has tinkered with the Barnsley squad, with Zeki Fryers, Brad Potts, Lloyd Isgrove and Ike Ugbo coming in to the starting line-up.

Burton: Ripley, Buxton, McFadzean, Turner, Warnock, Murphy, Lund, Akpan, Dyer, Scannell, Akins

Barnsley: Davies, Yiadom, MacDonald, Lindsay, Fryers, Potts, Williams, McGeehan, Isgrove, Ugbo, Barnes.

Striker Omar Bogle makes his first league start for Cardiff; Mick McCarthy makes six changes for Ipswich with Manchester City loanee Bersant Celina in the starting XI, while Tommy Smith also returns.

Cardiff: Etheridge, Peltier, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Paterson, Bamba, Ralls, Tomlin, Hoilett, Mendez-Laing, Bogle

Ipswich: Bialkowski, Iorfa, Chambers, Smith, Knudsen, Bru, Skuse, Downes, Ward, Celina, Garner

Image source, Getty Images

Under-pressure Sunderland boss Simon Grayson makes four changes, including in goal where Robin Ruiter replaces Jason Steele. Bolton make one tweak to the starting XI from Saturday's draw with Fulham, Antonee Robinson replacing Andrew Taylor at left-back.

Sunderland: Ruiter, Matthews, O'Shea, Wilson. Oviedo, Gibson, N'dong, Williams, McManaman, McGeady, Grabban

Bolton: Alnwick, Little, Beevers, Wheater, Robinson, Pratley, Henry, Vela, Armstrong, Madine, Ameobi.

Reading welcome back Dave Edwards, Leandro Bacuna and Mo Barrow for the visit of Nottingham Forest as Tiago Ilori, Liam Kelly and Roy Beerens all drop out from the home defeat by Middlesbrough. Forest are unchanged from the side which started their 3-2 win at Hull on Saturday evening.

Reading: Mannone, Gunter, McShane (c), Moore, Bacuna, Van den Berg, Swift, Edwards, Barrow, Aluko, Smith.

Nottingham Forest: Smith; Darikwa, Worrall, Mancienne (c), Lichaj, Bridcutt, Vaughan, McKay, Dowell, Osborn, Cummings.

Let's have a look at some team news shall we?

There are PLENTY of changes...

Image source, Rex Features

Sunderland fans may want to look away now. This isn't going to make pleasant reading.

Just one victory from their 14 league games has seen the Black Cats slip to 23rd.

Tonight, the only side to have endured a worse start, Bolton Wanderers, visit the Stadium of Light.

The bad news... Sunderland have not won at home since December 2016. Defeat would send them to the bottom of the Championship. Strap yourself in folks!

Image source, Rex Features

Wolves' defeat at QPR on Saturday, thanks to Matt Smith's late header, was just their third loss of the season.

Tonight, Nuno's side travel to Norwich who are hovering just outside the play-offs.

Image source, Rex Features

Arguably the Championship's other surprise package this season are Bristol City.

Saturday's 2-1 win at Sunderland saw Lee Johnson's side climb to fourth and in Bobby Reid they have the division's joint top scorer.

A visit to last season's play-off semi-finalists Fulham, who can't stop drawing games, awaits this evening.

Image source, Rex Features

Friday's 2-1 win at Yorkshire rivals Leeds, coupled with Wolves' loss at QPR on Saturday saw Chris Wilder's men go top of the Championship for the first time this campaign.

Don't forget, they only came up from League One last season.

Can they stay at the summit tonight? The Blades play Wolves' conquerors at Loftus Road.

I'll be honest, the Blades weren't my pick to be the pacesetters, but the table doesn't lie.

And it makes terrific reading for fans in one half of the Steel City with almost a third of the season gone...

Image source, .

Hands up who thought Sheffield United would be top of the Championship on Halloween...

Image source, Rex Features