{"id":775840,"date":"2026-09-19T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:08:12","slug":"efl-championship-live-text-commentary-and-score-updates-from-nine-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775840\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Championship LIVE: Text commentary and score updates from nine games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making history at Sincil Bank?published at 14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Lincoln City v Swansea City (15:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dc9c988b-d518-4bab-899a-460f16dab9f5.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Simon Davies<br \/>BBC Radio Wales commentator<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vitor Matos celebrating Swansea City's win over Burnley\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/67567bb5-1b8b-455a-bcbf-3e4b0158e93a.jpg.webp\"  width=\"2857\" height=\"1607\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Huw Evans Picture Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A win at Lincoln this afternoon would put Swansea City on 17 points from their opening eight games &#8211; matching their best start to a league season in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would equal the return from the Covid-disrupted 2019-20 campaign under Steve Cooper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory today would also surpass the six wins from eight managed by the late Kenny Jackett&#8217;s side in League One in 2005-06.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While a flying start signals serious intent, fans will be hoping for a different twist under Vitor Matos, as both those campaigns ended in play-off defeats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As for Lincoln, they return to the comforts of home following a fruitful away-day double header, having edged out both Preston North End and Bristol City since last playing in front of their own supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Considered by many to be relegation candidates before a ball was even kicked, the Imps &#8211; under the dual management of Chris Cohen and Tom Shaw &#8211; have gone five unbeaten and currently sit on the edge of the play-offs, having shown signs they are quickly getting to grips with this level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making history at Sincil Bank?published at 14:40 BST 14:40 BST Lincoln City v Swansea City (15:00 BST) Simon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}