Championship

Championship Matchday 5 Preview

Matchday 5 · 2 matches
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Every fixture in the round, with where both clubs stand, what they have done so far and how they have gone at home and away. Swansea go into the round on top with 10 points.

Swansea1
10 pts
WDWW
15Wrexham
5 pts
DDLW

Swansea beat Watford 2–0. Wrexham beat Millwall 3–0 away. Swansea sit 14 places above Wrexham.

Birmingham10
6 pts
DDWD
9Wolverhampton
7 pts
DWWL

Birmingham drew 1–1 at home to Southampton. Wolverhampton lost to West Ham 2–4 away. Birmingham have not lost yet.

Reading the round

The Championship plays 46 rounds including regular midweek fixtures, so a round can be spread from Friday to Tuesday. Saturday at three o'clock is still the core of it, and those matches are not shown live in the United Kingdom.

Form here counts only finished matches, so a club with a game in hand looks worse than it is. Home and away records matter more than they look in a league this early: two home wins from two says less about a club than the same two results in November will.

Betting on this round

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The fixtures worth a second look are the ones where the table and the form disagree: a club sitting high after a soft opening, or one near the bottom that has played the two hardest away games available. Both get priced on position, and position this early is mostly a function of who they have already faced.

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