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Sports Mole's Championship team of the week

Championship team of the week
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Sports Mole picks out its top performers from Saturday's full fixture list in the Championship.

Cardiff leapfrogged Crystal Palace at the top of the Championship thanks to a hard-fought win at Barnsley yesterday.

Palace themselves were downed by Leeds at Elland Road while Leicester kept up the pressure on the top two with awin at lowly Sheffield Wednesday.

Struggling Bristol City pulled off the shock of the day by ending Middlesbrough's 11-game unbeaten run at a foggy Riverside as fellow dropzone members Ipswich and Peterborough played out a draw at Portman Road.

Here, Sports Mole picks out its top XI from yesterday's 12 fixtures.

Tom Heaton (Bristol City)
The Robins stopper was in fine form between the sticks as Bristol pulled off an unlikely triumph in particularly tricky conditions on Teesside.

Bruno Saltor (Brighton)
Brighton were denied three points by a late David N'Gog strike but they would have won thanks to the long-range from Bruno.
Mark Beevers (Millwall)
The Lions are the division's form side with five wins from their last six and this is in part down to the bullishness of Beevers and his fellow defenders. Millwall kept another clean sheet away at Blackburn yesterday, with Beevers and co. able to keep in-form Jordan Rhodes quiet.
Alan Tate (Leeds)
The Swansea defender recently joined Leeds on loan from Swansea and manager Neil Warnock hailed his performance in the victory over Palace.
Jason Shackell (Burnley)
A resilient performance from the whole Claret defence as Burnley kept a clean sheet against in-form Hull City. Shackell's presence and danger in the other box gets him a place in our XI.

James Henry (Millwall)
The playmaking midfielder only returned to the Lions' side last week and he was back on the scoresheet yesterday, netting a classy first at Blackburn.
Adlene Guedioura (Forest)
The energetic Algerian came up against his former club and scored a rasping winner to give Forest the win over Wolves.
Ben Marshall (Leicester)
The creative midfielder has been a shining light in Leicester's push for the Championship's summit and he notched the second as the Foxes piled more misery on Wednesday at Hillsborough.
Peter Whittingham (Cardiff)
Whittingham has performed consistently at Championship level for a number of years now and he was chief architect yesterday, providing the goods from set pieces for both Cardiff goals at Barnsley yesterday.

Luciano Becchio (Leeds)
Although Leeds are struggling this season, Becchio always knows where the goal is and was on the scoresheet as Leeds ended Palace's 14-game unbeaten run.
Troy Deeney (Watford)
Gianfranco Zola's Watford have lost just one of their last six and Deeney's presence up front is one of the major factors. He scored again yesterday as Blackpool nicked a point late on at Bloomfield Road.

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1Sunderland1594225111431
2Sheffield UnitedSheff Utd1510321971231
3Leeds UnitedLeeds158522491529
4Burnley157621861227
5West Bromwich AlbionWest Brom15672169725
6Watford158162322125
7Middlesbrough157352317624
8Millwall156541813523
9Blackburn RoversBlackburn156451917222
10Bristol City155732019122
11Swansea CitySwansea155461110119
12Derby CountyDerby155461919019
13Stoke CityStoke155461819-119
14Norwich CityNorwich154652322118
15Sheffield WednesdaySheff Weds155371725-818
16Oxford UnitedOxford Utd154561718-117
17Coventry CityCoventry154472021-116
18Plymouth ArgylePlymouth154471526-1116
19Hull City153661620-415
20Preston North EndPreston153661523-815
21Luton TownLuton154381726-915
22Cardiff CityCardiff154381423-915
23Portsmouth152671628-1212
24Queens Park RangersQPR151771225-1310


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