[Championship]: Preview of the 41st round.

Hello! Moving to the Championship, here the struggle to enter the Premier League also goes to the finish line. In the upcoming tour we will have a lot of interesting matches, perhaps even more interesting than in the Premier League. So, let's look at some of them.

The championship leader will play tomorrow and leave this match for last. Today, most of the favorites will play home games and the most interesting match will be Leeds United - Sheffield Wednesday. Leeds and Sheffield United are engaged in a relentless struggle for second place, just like Liverpool and Man City. In the last round of the “blades” stumbled after a draw with Birmingham, Leeds beat Preston with a lot of luck, the removal broke Preston, and in general now the team is experiencing gaming difficulties. In home games, Leeds plays more confidently and reliably, in the last round defense showed itself very well, but the opponent's red card helped. Owls are 6 points behind the Top 6 and today they need to score points, a draw will not give them anything. Defense Wednesday looks good, but much will depend on how well the attack will work. I think there will be few goals, both teams play well in defense. This match will end today's gaming day, now moving on to other matches.

Aston Villa - Bristol City. Both teams to the final segment of the championship reached their best level, which allowed them to enter the Top 6 and even break away from the pursuers by four points. Aston Villa has not lost in seven games in a row, Bristol for five. In the table, the team shares one point, but today's match will be home for the Villa and they will have every chance to increase the lead. However, the opponent will not give up three points without a fight, but he certainly will. Aston Villa prefers to exert pressure from the first minutes in native walls, the opponent tries to play more carefully in guest matches. Most likely Bristol will wait for the mistakes of the owners, the defense of Aston Villa is not impassable so that they definitely will. It is quite possible that this match will be scoring and total more than 2.5 can be considered in live.

West Bromwich - Preston. “Throstles” fell out of the fight for the second line, they made too many mistakes in the last two matches. A week ago, an outsider made a mockery of them, and the absence of Ahmed Hegazi in the past match led to numerous defense mistakes, which Bristol used. In this tour, the Egyptian will return to the main team, and with it the hope that at least in the home game the Albion will look better. Moreover, Preston most likely has already lost his chances of getting into the playoff zone, the competitors are too strong, and the team is not in the best shape right now. And the statistics of home games against Preston in favor of the “throstles”. Over the course of 21 matches, Preston cannot win at the Hawthorns.

Sheffield United - Millwall. Also a very interesting match. "Blades" again fell to the third line, and "dockers" are seriously threatened with a drop in class. Forced rotation of the main team is clearly not going to benefit United, however, defense is still the strength of the team. Millwall spends a good segment of the championship, but obviously not much is left of him, and in the away matches the Dockers rarely play good matches. Here, most likely, many goals will not be scored, and the victory will be behind the “blades”.

It will also be interesting to watch Derby County, to whom Bolton will almost come to League One. In the last round, the team of Frank Lampard failed in the match with Blackburn, but visiting “rams” and for the rest of the season were not the strongest team. A home match with an outsider should help them return to the fight for the playoffs, which, after losing points in two games in a row, left them at a distance of five points. Nottingham Forest, which is likely to once again out of the fight for the Premier League will also confirm the status of the home team in the match with Blackburn. Guests finish the season, they are not in danger, and they can have fun in the remaining matches and take away points from the teams that continue to fight.

And finally, the match Wigan Athletic - Norwich City. The Canaries played their match three days ago so their match was taken out on Sunday and he will complete the 41st round. “Latics” is dangerously close to the relegation zone and this forces the team to fight in every match. In home games, Wigan has not lost 7 games in a row and overall looks pretty good. In the last round, one of the outsiders took away points from Norwich in their own arena, but this does not mean that the canaries looked weaker. On the contrary, the team played the entire match in an attack and only by a miracle in the 93rd minute, Reading managed to snatch a draw. Of course, the gap of six points in the fight for the title is quite large, but in the case of one or two misfires from this handicap, there can be no trace, especially since Sheffield United and Leeds are in contenders. So Norwich will try to justify himself for a misunderstanding in the last round, and Wigan will do her best to restrain the championship leader. Very interesting match, it is worth waiting for goals, and it is possible on both sides.