A tough and busy week in the second tier begins to draw to a close on Saturday afternoon when the majority of another round of matches in the Championship are played out, including a couple of huge clashes for a couple of sides.
The televised action gets us underway on Saturday afternoon and then come the rest of the day’s fixtures with one match saved for Sunday. You get the feeling we could see some strange results here with this being the third match in eight days for the teams involved.
Saturday’s fixtures are as follows: (3pm unless stated)
Derby County v West Bromwich Albion (12.30)
Barnsley v Luton Town
Blackburn Rovers v Cardiff City
Charlton Athletic v Brentford
Fulham v Nottingham Forest
Huddersfield Town v Reading
Hull City v Bristol City
Middlesbrough v Millwall
Preston North End v Sheffield Wednesday
Queens Park Rangers v Wigan Athletic
Stoke City v Leeds United
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Big Matches
The big match of the day in terms of the fact it is on TV is the one between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion, a match between two sides who probably aren’t firing on as many cylinders as their managers would like at the present time. It is bottom against top at the Bet365 Stadium where Stoke City entertain Leeds United while Fulham in third place take on a Nottingham Forest team who have been well fancied this term but who haven’t fully fired yet either.
Best of the Rest
Elsewhere it is a big day at the bottom of the table where Huddersfield Town host Reading in a match between two sides in the bottom half while promoted Barnsley take on Luton Town in another match which will have an implication on the bottom of the pile. QPR host Wigan Athletic to complete the trio of those sort of matches. Sheffield Wednesday have made a good start to the season and they head to Deepdale to face Preston North End while much liked Bristol City head north to face off with Hull City. Cardiff City will look for a first away win when they go up against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park.
Betting
I’ll take a couple in the Championship on Saturday beginning with the match I’m going to at Oakwell where Barnsley and Luton Town can combine for a few goals. This fixture ended 3-2 to the home side last year and something similar in terms of the number of goals wouldn’t surprise me. This tends to be a high scoring fixture. I remember a 3-2 in Luton’s favour at Barnsley and a 4-3 and there is plenty of attacking intent on the pitch. Both teams have shipped goals to defensive errors this term too and both need a win so I’m expecting a technical and good quality open match so over 2.5 goals is the call here.
Huddersfield Town have shown me nothing this season and I don’t think sacking the manager is going to help too much either. You can have the best tradesman in the world in charge of the ship but if his tools are crap you’ll get a rubbish job and that is where the Terriers are right now. Reading look to be in a much better place. They have just spent a load of cash on additions to their squad and look to have a real potency going forward now – something Huddersfield fans dream of. This could be all about Reading doing nothing stupid at the back and if they are able to do that they can come out on top here.
Tips
WON – Back Barnsley vs Luton Town – Over 2.5 goals for a 4/10 stake at 1.80 with BetVictor
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WON – Back Reading (+0.25AH) to beat Huddersfield Town for a 4/10 stake at 1.95 with Betfred
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