The last of tonight's eight games has got going at Loftus Road.

QPR boss Julien Stephan makes two alterations from the side that beat West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.

Ilias Chair and Jake Clarke-Salter are not in the squad and are replaced by Paul Smyth and Steve Cook.

Birmingham make two changes of their own from the defeat at Southampton.

Bright Osayi-Samuel and Jack Robinson replace Tommy Doyle, who is on the bench, and Alex Cochrane, who is injured.

Dafydd Pritchard
BBC Sport Wales at the Swansea.com Stadium

Swansea head coach Vitor Matos and his Portsmouth counterpart John Mousinho are adversaries tonight as their teams vie for crucial points in their respective quests to escape the Championship relegation scrap.

But they are as one when it comes to touchline style, dressed almost identically in black jackets and trousers with box-fresh white trainers.

Serious football analysis only here.

So close for Blackburn!

Two bites of the cherry for Taylor Gardner-Hickman. First he works onto Andri Gudjohnsen's headed delivery and unleashes a left-footed shot from close range having been put through clean on goal.

Jamie Cumming makes the save, Gardner-Hickman looks alive as he gets onto the rebound but his headed effort goes wide of the target.

Ryan Bennett
Former Norwich defender on BBC Radio Norfolk

Norwich have started games well but in the second half of games they have just tailed off. People might say that is down to fitness but it could be down to tactical decisions. Maybe the half-time talk isn't quite right.

There will be plenty of staff trying to figure out an answer to try to rectify it.

Boro have a great opportunity to whip a free-kick in from the right-hand side but Matt Targett's delivery is really poor and goes straight down the throat of Thomas Kaminski.

Steve Ogrizovic
Ex-Coventry City goalkeeper on BBC CWR

Coventry will need to try to win the midfield battle tonight. That feels crucial.

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A loose ball is almost pounced upon in the Norwich penalty area but Tom Cannon cannot get in front of Canaries keeper Vladan Kovacevic, who rushes out of his goal well to parry the ball out for a corner.

Portsmouth come close with the best chance of the game so far.

Conor Chaplin has an effort saved from close range by Swansea keeper Lawrence Vigouroux after some good work on the wing by Josh Murphy.

Well this game has got under way despite the wet and wild weather that's battered some of the country.

A reminder that Saturday's fixture at Ewood Park between Blackburn and Sheffield Wednesday succumbed to the wet weather but so far so good tonight.

Blackburn are forced to defend early on as Luke Harris' corner swings into his Oxford team-mate Greg Leigh, whose header goes just wide of the mark.

What a save from Thomas Kaminski!

Middlesbrough captain Hayden Hackney thinks he's opened the scoring, hitting a powerful left-footed drive from the edge of the area, but the Charlton keeper gets a hand from nowhere to tip the ball over the bar.

I thought we had our first goal of the night in the Championship.

A first half-chance for the hosts in this game.

Swansea work their way into a decent attacking position as Eom Ji-sung uses his pace to get past Terry Devlin but drags a left-footed effort wide of the far post after beating his man.

Watford get the first chance of the game at Vicarage Road.

Giorgi Chakvetadze works his way into the box from a Othmane Maamma delivery and tries his luck from close range but his drive is well saved by Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Pierce Charles.

Couple of chances to tell you about at Bramall Lane early on.

First, a cut back almost finds Blades striker Tom Cannon who would have had a great chance at opening the scoring but Norwich defender Ruairi McConville made a vital interception inside his own six yard box.

At the other end, Norwich midfielder Jacob Wright, returning to the side tonight, bends an effort just wide from outside the box.

Steve Ogrizovic
Ex-Coventry City goalkeeper on BBC CWR

If we get some type of performance, that away end is going to be rocking.

The Sky Blue Army have turned up in their numbers here at Deepdale and are making themselves known.

A period of applause has been wonderfully observed by all four sides of The Valley in memory of Charlton fan Norman Barker and the game is under way.

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Right then.

Tonight's Championship games are slowly getting under way, although QPR v Birmingham is a 20:00 GMT kick-off.

A big (and, let's face it, probably wet and windy) night begins in England's second tier.

Yes it is a remarkable record that Coventry have at Preston, with no league wins at all at the home of North End in 23 attempts - is tonight the night that changes?