EFL preview: Shining lights and dark nights

BBC Sport picks out five things across the EFL that you should be keeping your eyes on this weekend. Vitor Matos (left) of Swansea and West Ham's Nuno Espirito Santo (right) are all smiles now, but who will be beaming come Saturday evening? The leaves are turning, the shadows of British Summer Time are lengthening and you can't move for Halloween paraphernalia in the shops. It's a special time of year, not least in the EFL where teams are already jostling for position in the race for promotion, and survival. We're still a week away from the clocks going back but a glance at the top of the Championship might convince you we've rewound well over a decade already, with seven of the current top nine teams having sat outside the top flight for at least half a dozen seasons, and plenty of them more than double that.

The third tier is also as intriguing as ever while you can pretty much throw your cap over the League Two promotion chasers. Here are some of the standout fixtures and narratives across the EFL that you should be keeping your eyes on this weekend. Tuesday's last-gasp winner at Millwall made it four straight wins for Swansea either side of the international break to keep the Swans top of the Championship, 16