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Championship Preview: Five Key Fixtures From Matchweek 3 in England's Second Tier

The Championship is approaching its third round of fixtures (in mid-August! Seriously!) and the table is very, very marginally starting to take shape. A bit.

All three of the sides relegated from the Premier League lost their opening matches of the season, while all three of the newly promoted clubs from League One have already picked up points, showing just how tight the league can be.

Here are five of this weekend's biggest fixtures and what they have to offer.

This week's Friday Night Football on Sky Sports pits together the two sides who propped up the bottom of the 2018/19 Premier League table; Huddersfield and Fulham struggled to adapt to life in the top flight of English football, gaining just 42 points between them.