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Cardiff City: The Welsh aspect are 2d from backside of the Championship desk and host Oxford United thisd afternoon. Following Saturday’s dismissal of Omer Riza, Aaron Ramsey has been given the task of retaining Cardiff up with simply 3 video games of the season ultimate.
The 34-year-old midfielder has no longer performed for Cardiff since struggling the most recent in an extended litany of hamstring accidents in March.
Some pre-match listening: Would you somewhat watch Leicester play soccer with out scoring a objective for 13 hours or sit down via King Lear, Hamlet and all 3 portions of Henry VI? Is shameless fanboying within the statement field ever appropriate? And what – if anything else – is the adaptation between the Guardian’s Barney Ronay and Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca?
Max Rushden was once within the chair as those and different questions have been replied via Barney Ronay, Jonathan Wilson and Barry Glendenning on these days’s episode of the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast. You can concentrate right here and in the event you’re no longer already a subscriber you’ll join within the all of the same old podcast puts.
Championship: How issues stand
Promotion: Burnley can be promoted this night in the event that they beat Sheffield United, whilst Leeds will sign up for them within the Premier League subsequent season in the event that they beat Stoke City this afternoon and Sheffield United drop issues.
Every group all the way down to Swansea City in 11th position can nonetheless technically qualify for the playoffs, the place Sunderland and considered one of Burnley, Leeds United and Sheffield United are already assured spots. Bristol City can protected a play-off spot in the event that they beat Luton and Middlesbrough lose to Sheffield Wednesday.
Relegation: No relegation puts can be showed these days, with a wide-ranging struggle happening to no less than the penultimate spherical of fits this coming weekend. From the ground up, Plymouth Argyle, Cardiff City and Luton Town lately occupy the relegation puts however groups from 16th within the desk down may nonetheless finally end up in League One subsequent season.
Championship fixtures
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Cardiff City v Oxford United
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Hull City v Preston
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Leeds United v Stoke City
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Luton Town v Bristol City
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Milwall v Norwich City
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Plymouth Argyle v Coventry City
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Portsmouth v Watford
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QPR v Swansea City
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Sheffield United v Middlesbrough
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Sunderland v Blackburn Rovers
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West Brom v Derby County
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Burnley v Sheffield Utd (5.30pm BST)
League One: How issues stand
Promotion: Birmingham City will pass up as champions, whilst Wycombe Wanderers have a one-point lead over Wrexham within the race to the second one automated promotion spot. Both groups may nonetheless be overtaken via Stockport County and/or Charlton Athletic.
Two of Wrexham, Wycombe and Charlton are all assured playoff spots on the very least, whilst the remainder two spots are up for grabs to any of the groups from Stockport in 5th all the way down to Blackpool in 10th.
Relegation: Shrewsbury Town are down, whilst – from the ground up – Crawley Town, Cambridge United and Bristol Rovers occupy the opposite 3 relegation puts. Crawley and Cambridge may each pass down these days.
Crawley host Exeter wanting to no less than event the result of Bristol Rovers and Burton, who tackle Stevenage and champions Birmingham respectively. The state of affairs is the same for Cambridge, some extent at an advantage in 22nd after beating Huddersfield on Friday, although even defeat via Leyton Orient would no longer essentially seal their destiny so long as neither Burton nor Rovers wins.
As issues stand, any of the edges from 15th position down – together with Stevenage, Wigan Athletic, Peterborough United, Mansfield Town, Northampton Town and Burton Albion – may nonetheless finally end up in League Two subsequent season.
League One fixtures
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Barnsley v Peterborough United
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Blackpool v Wrexham
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Bristol Rovers v Stevenage
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Burton Albion v Birmingham City
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Cambridge United v Leyton Orient
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Crawley Town v Exeter City
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Lincoln City v Bolton Wanderers
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Mansfield Town v Reading
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Northampton v Shrewsbury
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Stockport County v Huddersfield
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Wigan Athletic v Rotherham
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Wycombe v Charlton Athletic
League Two: How issues stand
Promotion: Fighting for 3 automated promotion spots, the highest 4 groups – Port Vale, Doncaster Rovers, Bradford City and Walsall – are separated via simply 3 issues. Behind them, AFC Wimbledon, Notts County, Colchester United, Grimsby Town, Chesterfield and Salford City nonetheless have prime, middling or extraordinarily faint hopes of nicking automated promotion.
Port Vale, who’re assured a playoff spot no less than, can protected promotion these days in the event that they win, Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers each lose and AFC Wimbledon drop issues. Teams from 9th to 13th – Chesterfield, Salford City, Crewe, Swindon Town and Bromley – can nonetheless make the playoffs.
Relegation: Any group from 18th position down can nonetheless finally end up within the relegation spots lately occupied via backside aspect Morecambe and Carlisle United. From the bottom positioned up, they’re Tranmere Rovers, Accrington Stanley, Harrogate Town, MK Dons and Newport County.
Morecambe’s League standing is placing via a thread, one which can snap except they beat Salford. Even that will no longer be sufficient will have to 22nd-placed Tranmere additionally win, away to Barrow. Carlisle can also be relegated in the event that they lose to Accrington and Tranmere win.
League Two fixtures
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Newport County 0-0 Walsall (L)
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Accrington Stanley v Carlisle
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Barrow v Tranmere Rovers
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Chesterfield v Bradford City
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Crewe Alexandra v MK Dons
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Doncaster Rovers v Colchester
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Gillingham v AFC Wimbledon
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Harrogate v Fleetwood Town
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Morecambe v Salford City
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Notts County v Cheltenham
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Port Vale v Grimsby Town
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Swindon Town v Bromley
EFL Clockwatch
Greetings all and welcome to our rolling weblog protecting what guarantees to be a captivating day with numerous ups, downs and somewhat a couple of as-you-weres within the Football League.
As we way the pointy finish of the season with simply 3 rounds of fixtures to head in all 3 divisions (with a couple of exceptions in League One), there’s lots left to be made up our minds and for higher or worse, the destiny of somewhat a couple of groups may well be sealed these days.
If you had a large night time ultimate night time, there’s a superb opportunity you’ll to find the excruciating trivialities of our variations for each ends of every desk a bit too taxing however we’ve been not anything if no longer thorough.
Fear no longer, we will be able to stay you up to the mark because the occasions of the afternoon spread, so with out additional ado, let’s get on with the joys …
