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I don't think there is much the FAW can do for Cardiff this time and they sit a point behind Norwich with the outsiders now Reading and Swansea who are three and five points behind. Cardiff are also the one team in that group who have just the one home game remaining.
Now down to that last play off place and such is this league that ourselves, totally out of the running nine days ago, are in with a good shout although our goal difference, destroyed in that recent run of one point from six games, could work against us.
Nottingham Forest are currently in the play off positions and probably have the easiest of the run ins. They are ahead of Leeds and then us on goal difference whilst Millwall, big 4-0 winners over Preston on Saturday are just two points behind.
Am I right to discard Hull who are now three points behind? Probably not given the way things go in the Championship but I do think it will be very difficult for them.
In terms of home and away games remaining, all but us have one at home and two away and we need to make the most of that.
Down at the bottom things are not so simple. You wouldn't bet on either Preston or Sheffield United surviving and it would be a brave bet to suggest Scunthorpe would stay up. But Crystal Palace still need a win and Doncaster could get dragged in if all the results went against them. Derby are the only other team who could be relegated but that would now take a freak set of results for both them and Scunthorpe.
The weekend results are below along with the stats, the leading goalscorers, each club's disciplinary record and today's fixtures.
The Weekend Results | |
Thursday 21st April | |
Ipswich 1 Norwich 5 | |
Friday 22nd April | |
Coventry 1 Scunthorpe 1 | Nottingham Forest 3 Leicester 2 |
Doncaster 0 Crystal Palace 0 | Leeds 0 Reading 0 |
Saturday 23rd April | |
Cardiff 2 QPR 2 | Portsmouth 0 Swansea 0 |
Derby 2 Burnley 4 | Sheffield United 3 Bristol City 2 |
Hull 2 Middlesbrough 4 | Watford 1 Barnsley 0 |
Millwall 4 Preston 0 | |
The Weekend Stats | |
Biggest win | Milwall 4-0 v Preston (away) |
Total goals scored | 39 (19 home - 20 away) |
Player scoring most goals | 3 - Scott McDonald (Middlesbrough) |
Highest Attendance | 29,258 - Ipswich v Norwich |
Lowest Attendance | 10,426 - Millwall v Preston |
Total Yellow Cards | 29 |
Total Red Cards | 3 |
Most cards in a game | Portsmouth v Swansea (7Y) - Darren Deadman |
The leading scorers (league only) | |
23 | Danny Graham (Watford) - includes 1 penalty |
21 | Shane Long (Reading) - includes 5 penalties |
20 | Grant Holt (Norwich) - includes 3 penalties |
19 | Luciano Becchio (Leeds) |
18 | Jay Bothroyd (Cardiff) - includes 1 penalty Adel Taarabt (QPR) - includes 6 penalties |
17 | Max Gradel (Leeds) - includes 2 penalties |
16 | Scott Sinclair (Swansea) - includes 5 penalties |
15 | Bill Sharp (Doncaster) - includes 4 penalties Steve Morison (Millwall) - includes 1 penalty |
14 | Andy King (Leicester) |
13 | Kris Commons (Derby) - includes 2 penalties Jay Rodriguez (Burnley) |
12 | Heidar Helguson (QPR) - includes 5 penalties Marlon King (Coventry) - includes 3 penalties Scott McDonald (Middlesbrough) Lewis McGugan (Nottingham Forest) - includes 3 penalties Brett Pitman (Bristol City) - includes 4 penalties |
11 | Matt Fryatt (Hull) - includes 3 penalties & 2 with Leicester) Iain Hume (Preston) Chris Iwelumo (Burnley) David Nugent (Portsmouth) Davide Somma (Leeds) |
Hat Tricks (league only) | |
11th Sep | 3 - Chris Iwelumo - BURNLEY v Preston |
14th Sep | 3 - James Coppinger - DONCASTER v Norwich |
14th Sep | 3 - James Vaughan - CRYSTAL PALACE v Portsmouth |
28th Sep | 3 - Jon Parkin - Leeds v PRESTON |
30th Oct | 3 - Jonny Howson - Scunthorpe v LEEDS |
13th Nov | 3 - Luciano Becchio - LEEDS v Bristol City |
27th Nov | 3 - Grant Holt - NORWICH v Leeds |
28th Dec | 3 - Wes Hoolahan - NORWICH v Sheffield United |
1st Jan | 3 - Jason Puncheon - MILLWALL v Crystal Palace |
5th Feb | 3 - Matt Fryatt - Scunthorpe v HULL |
15th Feb | 3 - Connor Wickham - Doncaster v IPSWICH |
2nd Apr | 3 - Grant Holt - NORWICH v Scunthorpe |
2nd Apr | 3 - Simeon Jackson - NORWICH v Scunthorpe |
2nd Apr | 3 - Yakubu - Middlesbrough v LEICESTER |
23rd Apr | 3 - Scott McDonald - Hull v MIDDLESBROUGH |
Disciplinary Record (all domestic games) | |||||
| Club | Y | R | Club | Y | R |
| Barnsley | 63 | 3 | Middlesbrough | 60 | 1 |
| Bristol City | 58 | 3 | Millwall | 62 | 6 |
| Burnley | 82 | 5 | Norwich | 69 | 3 |
| Cardiff | 55 | 1 | Nottingham Forest | 65 | 3 |
| Coventry | 64 | 5 | Portsmouth | 84 | 9 |
| Crystal Palace | 80 | 8 | Preston | 87 | 5 |
| Derby | 74 | 3 | QPR | 64 | 6 |
| Doncaster | 48 | 3 | Reading | 67 | 4 |
| Hull | 73 | 2 | Scunthorpe | 56 | 4 |
| Ipswich | 66 | 5 | Sheffield United | 71 | 11 |
| Leeds | 83 | 4 | Swansea | 64 | 2 |
| Leicester | 54 | 3 | Watford | 52 | 2 |
The Next Fixtures | |
Monday 25th April | |
Barnsley v Doncaster | Norwich v Derby |
Bristol City v Nottingham Forest | Preston v Cardiff |
Burnley v Portsmouth | QPR v Hull |
Crystal Palace v Leeds | Reading v Sheffield United |
Leicester v Watford | Scunthorpe v Millwall |
Middlesbrough v Coventry | Swansea v Ipswich |