This weekend's Championship, League One, and League Two fixtures promise plenty of entertainment and drama. Key matchups include a Yorkshire derby between Leeds United and Hull City, and a Lancashire derby between Burnley and Blackburn Rovers.
Entertainment, drama, the pendulum swinging back and forth week to week; the first games of 2025 certainly didn't fail to deliver on that front. The festive period, as it were, will reach its climax this weekend and bring to an end an even more clogged fixture list than usual with most sides playing their fourth game in 10 days. Let's take a look at the biggest talking points across the Championship , League One and League Two ahead of this weekend's fixtures.
Hull City have picked up seven points from Ruben Selles' first six games in charge after getting just three points from the previous 11 matchesBut the Whites effectively got away with dropping two points as both Burnley and Sheffield United failed to capitalise - the Clarets drawing 0-0 at home to Stoke and the Blades losing 2-1 at fellow automatic promotion-chasers Sunderland. Daniel Farke's side travel to Hull City on Saturday, who remain in the bottom three but have steadied the ship slightly since Ruben Selles took over with two wins and a draw in his opening six games, having previously lost six on the bounce. The league leaders will feel confident of picking up a result having won twice away from home and keeping clean sheets in both since a run of just one victory in seven on the road beforehand. Hull have lost all but one of their seven games against top six opposition (D1) so far this season and will face no sterner test than that of Leeds. Anything can happen in a Yorkshire derby, of course.Another derby sees Lancashire's Championship heavyweights Burnley and Blackburn meet at Ewood Park on Saturday lunchtime. Rovers have struggled over the Christmas period and are now without a win in four games (D2 L2) since winning six in a row, but may take belief from their last-gasp draw at Leeds. Burnley are unbeaten in 12 matches (W7 D5), although they've drawn 0-0 in their past two, taking their number of goalless draws for the season to seve
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