Nottingham Forest are now the play-off favourites. How will they cope? Plus all your other Championship winners and losers here…
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Millwall – play-off outsiders
Nobody is quite sure how they’ve managed it, but in a season dominated by dark horses fighting for a space at the top table of English football, Millwall have been under the radar throughout the entire campaign. But it is not about being in and around the top six all season that matters. Being there after 46 games is the only real measure of success, and right now, Millwall have as good a chance of getting the final play-off spot as any of the other six clubs in with a shout.
Monday’s 2-1 win over Hull had more than an element of fortune – Scott Malone’s opener was highly fortuitous – but at a certain level, you make your own luck. They are still on the outside looking in, as they have been at best all campaign, but Gary Rowett’s side are firmly knocking on the door with a plethora of competitors around them hitting stumbling blocks of form. Four points from their Easter weekend couplet of fixtures is the sort of form which could be enough to get Millwall above the dotted line come May.
Nottingham Forest – play-off favourites
From a team looking just about capable of booking a place in the end-of-season lottery to a club who have almost certainly achieved that spot with five games of their season remaining. We, and many others, have waxed lyrical about the job done by Steve Cooper and the impressive performances by almost every member of this Forest squad since Cooper came to the helm in September.
But on Monday, it would have been easy to let the defeat to Luton three days before affect them badly. Instead, Forest were imperious from the get-go. When the pressure was on them ever so slightly, they pushed it back with aplomb and put in one of the most complete first-half performances of the season from any team in this division. The hard part was getting into the play-offs –…
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