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The early games in the Championship have finished. A big win for Cardiff in the South Wales derby. An equally precious victory for Hull in south London. Both teams put some distance between themselves and bottom club Plymouth, who haven’t had a good day at all.
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Cardiff City 3-0 Swansea City
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Millwall 0-1 Hull City
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Plymouth Argyle 0-1 Queens Park Rangers
West Ham v Crystal Palace team news
West Ham United: Fabianski, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Cresswell, Alvarez, Lucas Paqueta, Rodriguez, Soucek, Emerson Palmieri, Kudus.
Subs: Areola, Soler, Coufal, Luis Guilherme, Ings, Irving, Casey, Scarles, Orford.
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Guehi, Munoz, Kamada, Hughes, Mitchell, Sarr, Eze, Mateta.
Subs: Turner, Nketiah, Schlupp, Clyne, Doucoure, Riad, Rodney, Devenny, Kporha.
West Ham make one change after the 3-2 win over Fulham. Aaron Cresswell replaces Carlos Soler, who drops to the bench.
Palace also make one change, following their win at Leicester. Daichi Kamada steps in for Jefferson Lerma, who misses out altogether.
Leicester v Fulham team news
Leicester City: Stolarczyk, Justin, Faes, Vestergaard, Kristiansen, Winks, Soumare, Ayew, El Khannous, Mavididi, Vardy.
Subs: Iversen, Coady, Okoli, De Cordova-Reid, Daka, Skipp, Thomas, McAteer, Buonanotte.
Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson, Berge, Lukic, Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi, Jimenez.
Subs: Benda, Reed, Rodrigo Muniz, Cairney, Traore, Andreas Pereira, King, Sessegnon, Diop.
Leicester make one change to the team that started the 0-2 home loss to Crystal Palace. Jordan Ayew comes in for the benched Facundo Buonanotte.
Fulham welcome back Sander Berge at the expense of Andreas Pereira, who drops to the bench.
Brentford v Liverpool team news
Brentford: Flekken, Roerslev, Collins, van den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Janelt, Norgaard, Yarmolyuk, Damsgaard, Mbeumo, Wissa.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Schade, Jensen, Carvalho, Mee, Konak, Maghoma, Kim.
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Salah, Szoboszlai, Gakpo, Diaz.
Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Nunez, Chiesa, Jones, Elliott, Robertson, Quansah, Bradley.
Brentford make one change after the 2-2 draw with Manchester City. Yehor Yarmolyuk comes in for Mathias Jensen, who drops to the bench.
Liverpool also make one change in the wake of their midweek work, the 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest. Kostas Tsimikas replaces Andrew Robertson, who is benched.
Preamble
Today’s 3pm card …
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Brentford v Liverpool
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Leicester City v Fulham
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West Ham United v Crystal Palace
… will tell us whether the league leaders’ one-win-in-four-and-that-against-Accrington-Stanley sequence is blip or full-blown crisis; if Ruud van Nistelrooy is able to snap his appalling six-game losing streak in the league; and whether Graham Potter keeps enjoying those early feelgood vibes or descends into Lopeteguian misery. Team news when we have it!
