It all starts over for another Championship match on Friday, just 48 hours after the final whistles blow on Wednesday to end a midweek round of matches.

Add to it the excitement and spills of League One and League Two that await us following Thursday’s 1-1 “Hollywood derby.”

Before the EFL action this weekend, here are some of the main talking points.

This weekend, there are a few games with teams with different short-term goals; some are attempting to move up, while others are attempting to stay up.

Starting on Friday, Sheffield United hopes to win four straight games to surpass Leeds at the top of the Championship, at least until the Whites’ match against Burnley on Monday.

Hull City, who defeated Millwall on Saturday but lost to QPR at home in the middle of the week, will play the Blades in an attempt to move out of the bottom three.

After losing to Middlesbrough 2-0 on Saturday, West Bromwich Albion will try to get their push for a play-off spot back on track.

Portsmouth is coming to the Hawthorns after winning two straight games, first against Boro last weekend and then against Stoke City on Wednesday.

If Pompey can continue their strong home form on the road and move farther away from the bottom three, they may soon be removed from the “basement battlers” group.

Plymouth, who are at the bottom of the league and six points outside of safety, will be hosted by Sunderland, who are four points outside of the automatic promotion spots.

In just eleven days, Plymouth has gone from okay to awful to completely hopeless.

On January 14, three days after Argyle’s historic shock FA Cup third-round victory at a Premier League team, Miron Muslic took over as manager of his first match.

Prior to the Pilgrims’ 1-0 home loss to QPR on Saturday, it finished in a 1-1 draw with Oxford.

However, Burnley’s 5-0 thrashing of Plymouth on Wednesday only made their problems worse and highlighted the enormity of the task Muslic faces.

After the crushing loss, Plymouth, who have the weakest attack (25 goals in 28 games) and the poorest defense in the division, have gone 14 league games (D6 L8) without a victory.

They have given up 60 goals, which is 13 more than Luton, who have given up 47.

A trip to the Stadium of Light is dire given that they haven’t won away from home this season, but if Argyle can achieve a successful outcome, it might just

Leyton Orient was 21st in League One, one point from safety in the relegation zone, and 12 points out of the top six when they lost 2-0 at home to Huddersfield on November 26. A run for the playoffs seemed unthinkable, but an incredible nine-game winning streak, consisting of seven wins and two draws, has propelled them up to eighth place and just three points off Stockport in sixth. Orient will play fellow play-off contenders Reading this weekend in what is expected to be a crucial match in the race to advance. Similarly, QPR has underapprecid in the Championship, going from bottom of the table on November 23 to 10th place, just four points off the

For two teams who appeared to be traveling in parallel directions during the previous two months, it is quite the turnaround.

Eleven sides in the EFL are currently unable to purchase a victory.

Along with Plymouth, two more freefall teams will face each other in the Championship when 23rd-place Luton hosts 17th-place Millwall.

Matt Bloomfield took over as manager of the Hatters, however they have lost one and drawn one since then, bringing their winless streak to six games (D1 L5).

Perhaps something will have to give at Kenilworth Road because the Lions have only won one of their last 13 games (D6 L6) and haven’t experienced victory in six games (D3 L3).

In the meanwhile, Derby, who

If Wycombe defeats Northampton, who are struggling at the other end of the table, they will be able to pass Birmingham at the top of the League One standings.

Blackpool and Exeter square off in a matchup between two teams who have both seen their point totals decline recently.

The Grecians have dropped to 14th place after five straight games without a victory (D2 L3), while Steve Bruce’s Blackpool, who are one spot lower, have now played six games without their last win—albeit only one of those was a loss—at high-flying Wrexham.

Prior to their trip to Lincoln, Peterborough had gone seven games without a win (D3 L4) and had only won once in their previous eleven games.

Crawley, a relegation contender, has lost six straight games (D2 L4).

And in League Two, Gillingham have been in freefall mode since winning six of their opening eight games to sit top of the division on 28 September. The Gills lost five in a row in October before steadying the ship with three wins and two draws from their next seven matches. But they have hit another particularly barren run since the Christmas period, losing four on the bounce to take their winless run to five games (D1) and slipping to 16th before a trip to strugglers Tranmere. Barrow have also not won in five (D2 L3) and have only recorded one victory in 15 matches since 5 October (D6 L8). They welcome Grimsby, looking to put an end to the rut. What better way to