Championship Play-Offs

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keith margam

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Championship Play-Off Semi-finals:

Thur 8 May 20:00 – Bristol C v Sheffield Utd

Fri 9 May 20:00 – Coventry v Sunderland


Mon 12 May 20:00 – Sheffield Utd v Bristol C

Tues 13 May 20:00 – Sunderland v Coventry


Championship Play-Off Final:

Sat 24 May (Kick-Off time TBC) - Wembley
 
Bristol City have lost only once in their last 15 home games

It was O’Brien’s debut for us:

Bristol City 0 - Swansea 1

Sheffield United have got to be favourites to go up with their superior quality squad but anything can happen in the play-offs.
 
Cruel luck, red card and a penalty. It ruined the game as a spectacle.
A lot of exaggeration and diving going on by players nowadays to gain advantage.
 
Tonight’s other playoff semi final about to start.
Sunderland come into this match off the back of 5 straight defeats.
Coventry have lost two of their last 3 games.
 
A Sheffield United v Sunderland play-off final at Wembley is in store then..
Sunderland’s centre-back and man of the match Dan Ballard getting the winning goal with a minute of extra time left to make it 1-1 on the night and the aggregate score 3-2.
Coventry the better side over the two games but missed their scoring chances. Only one of the four ex-Swans in the Coventry team played any part, Matt Grimes. He orchestrated and controlled Coventry’s every move including all the set-pieces and was their best player.
Jake Bidwell, Joel Latibeaudiere, and Jamie Paterson were unused subs for both games.
 
League One play-off semi-final.

Third placed Stockport knocked out on penalties after extra time by sixth placed Leyton Orient.

Ex-Swans Brandon Cooper and Azeem Abdulai both came on as subs for Orient, Abdulai scoring one of the penalties.
 
I'd have thought Abdulai would have been starting for them? Enough Swans fans seemed to think he would and we shouldn't have sold him. Maybe the rumours were true about his attitude
 
A capacity crowd of 27,000 tonight at The Valley. Mad scenes and a pitch invasion at the end of the match with Charlton Wembley bound after a late winning goal against Wycombe.
Swans linked Wycombe centre-back Joe Low missing again for this match.
An all London clash then for the L1 play-off final, Charlton v Leyton Orient, their grounds just 6 miles apart
 
Unlucky Sheffield United, 90 points wasn’t enough for automatic promotion with Burnley and Leeds getting a huge 100 points each. Then they go and lose the play-off final to two late goals in the 76th and 95th minute to Sunderland who had finished the season 14 points behind them on 76 points.

Sunderland won when it mattered. They had faltered in the their last few league games with five straight defeats but still managed to finish third in the table. They went on to beat Coventry in the play-off semi-final and then the Blades yesterday in the final to get the reward of playing in the Premier League next season, said to be worth a massive £200m.

Ironically the winning goal came from 19 year-old substitute Tom Watson, a local boy, who is leaving for Brighton in a £10m deal agreed last month.
 
Our Merthyr “friend” Nathan Jones is back in the Championship with Charlton after they beat Leyton Orient 1-0 in the League One play-off final this afternoon at Wembley. Only a free kick by Gillesphey on 31’ separating the sides, with goalkeeper Keeley at fault with his positioning. Tough on sixth place Orient who had beaten third place Stockport in the semi-final to get to Wembley.
No sign of Brandon Cooper, Azeem Abdulai came on as sub.
 
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