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Southampton will be looking to extend their five game unbeaten run when they host an unsettled Birmingham City this lunchtime.

Russell Martin has a few injuries in his camp and was forced into making a raft of changes during their midweek draw at Preston.

The 37-year-old manager defended his decision making on squad and playing style ahead of today’s fixture saying there was; “no right or wrong way to play football” and doubling down on his belief that his squad were on the up.

Meanwhile, Birmingham have struggled so far under new boss Wayne Rooney with two losses in two matches and they’ve dropped from fifth in the table to 12th.

The former England captain has admitted he may have to tone down the attempt to please his owners' demands to play "no fear" football.

Saints have recorded two wins, two draws and two losses at St Mary’s so far this campaign whilst the Blues haven’t won away since mid-August.

In a congested top third of the table - a win could do big things for both teams.

Both Leeds United and Huddersfield have made plenty of changes for this West Yorkshire derby showdown.

Crysencio Summerville, the hero in last week's come-from-behind win against Norwich, is recalled to Leeds United's starting XI.

Daniel Farke also brings in Jamie Shackleton, Glen Kamara and Dan James.

Wilfried Gnonto, Jaidon Anthony, Archie Gray and Ilia Gruev all drop to the bench following the midweek loss to Stoke.

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Leeds substitutes: Darlow, Ayling, Cooper, Gray, Gruev, Anthony, Poveda, Bamford, Gnonto.

Meanwhile, Darren Moore has made three changes to his Huddersfield Town side following their 4-0 home defeat by Cardiff.

Thomas Edwards, Brahima Diarra and ex-Leeds man Tom Lees start for the Terries, while Matty Pearson and Jaheim Headley drop out. A foot injury means Jack Rudoni is missing.

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Huddersfield substitutes: Maxwell, Edmonds-Green, Pearson, Headley, Jackson, Austerfield, Daley, Hudlin, Iorpenda.

Russell Martin makes four changes to his Southampton side that drew with Preston midweek.

Four of the five players who were rested have returned to the lineup and James Bree keeps his place at left-back.

Southampton XI: Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Bree, Downes, Smallbone, S. Armstrong, Alcaraz, A.Armstrong (capt), Kamaldeen

Subs: McCarthy, Holgate, Manning, Charles, Fraser, Aribo, Edozie, Amo-Ameyaw, Mara

Wayne Rooney makes four changes to the Blues team that lost to Hull midweek.

There is no Juninho Bacuna in the squad and Koji Miyoshi and Jay Stansfield start on the bench.

Birmingham XI: Ruddy, Sanderson (capt), Bielik, Jutkiewicz, Drameh, Dembele, James, Longelo, Sunjic, Aiwu, Burke

Subs:Etheridge, Laird, Roberts, Miyoshi, Gardner, Long, Khele, Stansfield, Hogan

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Hello and welcome along to another glorious afternoon of EFL action.

We have two early kick-offs in the Championship to get you going today from 12:30 BST.

Followed by eight more fixtures in the second tier and a full slate of matches from League One and League Two getting under way from 15:00.

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