Summary

  • Sunderland leapfrog Millwall to claim final Championship play-off spot

  • Lions beaten 4-3 by Blackburn after leading 3-1

  • Coventry seal top-six place with draw at Middlesbrough

  • Burnley & Sheff Utd promoted; Reading, Blackpool & Wigan relegated

  • Northampton win at Tranmere to clinch promotion to League One; Stockport draw with Hartlepool

  • Stockport, Carlisle, Bradford and Salford into League Two play-offs

  • Leyton Orient & Stevenage already promoted; Hartlepool & Rochdale relegated

  1. Postpublished at 15:17 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Preston 0-0 Sunderland

    The away side win a free-kick in a promising position.

    Patrick Roberts makes a decent connection with his effort but it takes a nick off the top of the wall and goes behind.

  2. Postpublished at 15:15 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Burnley 0-0 Cardiff

    Almost a farewell Burnley goal for Ashley Barnes where he has volleyed just over.

    Barnes will leave Turf Moor as a hero and with a Championship winner's medal in his pocket.

    Three points for the Clarets will take them over the 100-point mark.

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    GOAL: Swansea 0-1 West Brompublished at 15:14 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Okay Yokuslu (13 mins)

    West Brom scoreImage source, PA Media

    What a mess from Swansea at the back - West Brom's slim play-off hopes stay alive.

    They give the ball away twice in 30 seconds and the Baggies make them pay.

    The Swans defender Ryan Manning is fumbling around with the ball on the edge of the box and is dispossessed.

    The ball finds its way to Okay Yokuslu in the centre of the box, who takes his time and fires his shot into the bottom left corner.

  4. Postpublished at 15:14 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Middlesbrough 0-0 Coventry

    Middlesbrough yet to get a grip of Coventry, who are swarming with menace.

    The Sky Blues aren't standing on ceremony, they want to get their play-off place sorted on their own account.

    Josh Eccles the latest to try his luck, picking off Boro as they play out from the back, and just dragging his shot beyond Zack Steffen's uprights.

  5. Postpublished at 15:14 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Millwall 1-0 Blackburn

    This is hurricane stuff from Millwall.

    Blackburn somehow have to survive this to have any chance of building their way back into this match.

  6. Postpublished at 15:13 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Birmingham 0-0 Sheff Utd

    Tom Wagner wavesImage source, Getty Images

    American Tom Wagner is at St Andrew's after completing a deal to buy 45.64% of the club this morning.

    Not too much early action on the pitch in this one.

  7. Postpublished at 15:12 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Swansea City 0-0 West Brom

    Ooof a chance for Swansea.

    Jamie Patterson drives forward on the nearside and into the box and turns his defender to get the ball on to his left foot - slashing a shot (maybe a low cross) across the face of goal.

    It rolls wide but if one of his team-mates was at the back post it could've been a different story.

  8. DISALLOWED GOALpublished at 15:11 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Millwall 1-0 Blackburn

    So close to a second!!

    On two counts - Zian Flemming is so close as his free-kick hits the inside of the post.

    Tom Bradshaw is the first to the rebound and puts it into the empty net and the Den is delirious.

    But, he is adjudged to have been offside by the narrowest of margins.

  9. Postpublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Swansea City 0-0 West Brom

    West Brom just trying to calm it down a little.

    Both sides have been full of energy in these opening few minutes under overcast and gloomy skies in Landore.

  10. Postpublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Preston 0-0 Sunderland

    Sunderland must win to have a chance of finishing in the top six but it is the home side who have made the better start.

    Ali McCann makes good connection with his strike from the edge of the area and it deflects wide, with Anthony Patterson in the Black Cats goal rooted to the spot.

  11. Postpublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Middlesbrough 0-0 Coventry

    Boro are already in the play-offs and have been trying to nurse players back to fitness for their post-season push to come.

    Coventry on the other hand are a side powering toward the knockout phases, and they look up for this.

    They only need a point to guarantee their spot, and Viktor Gyokeres was close to adding a goal to go two better - but Zack Steffen has been his nemesis so far, denying him when he was in.

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    GOAL: Millwall 1-0 Blackburnpublished at 15:08 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Duncan Watmore (8 mins)

    Millwall celebrateImage source, Getty Images

    Take that!

    Millwall's thunderous start brings a deserved reward!

    They pin Blackburn in their own box once again and the ball drops for Duncan Watmore, level with the penalty spot.

    His shot crashes off the underside of the bar and after a momentary pause the referee awards the goal, with the ball two yards over the line.

  13. Postpublished at 15:07 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Swansea 0-0 West Brom

    Big game for the Baggies this and they've already had a brilliant chance on goal but couldn't convert.

    Jed Wallace picking the ball up on the edge of the Swansea box, passes out wide to John Swift who crosses a low ball toward the back post.

    The ball fizzes past all the Swansea defenders and lands for Brandon Thomas-Asante but he can't connect.

    Face in his hands, he knows he should've done better.

  14. Postpublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Middlesbrough 0-0 Coventry

    Two of the league's best sharpshooters are in action here.

    Chuba Akpom with his 28 league goals is Boro's main talisman, while opponent Viktor Gyokeres is the Coventry line-leader with 21 of his own.

    The pair can have a big say.

    Mind you, it's Gustavo Hamer not Gyokeres with the first chance - his shot across Zack Steffen's bows produces a superb save. Big arm to deny the Dutch-Brazilian schemer.

  15. Postpublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Millwall 0-0 Blackburn

    It should be 1-0 Millwall!

    Zian Flemming fairly launches a throw-in into the Blackburn box and Tom Bradshaw gets across the defenders but can't turn it home from inside the six-yard box.

    The roof would have come off the Den if that had gone in.

  16. Postpublished at 15:03 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Millwall 0-0 Blackburn

    Millwall got promoted from League One in 2017. Blackburn did it the year after.

    In the seasons that followed, neither side has finished higher than eighth.

    One of them could be three games from the Premier League at the end of this game (or neither could).

  17. Postpublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

    Millwall 0-0 Blackburn

    We had a rousing rendition of the national anthem before kick-off and then a huge Den roar afterwards.

    The stakes cannot be downplayed in this one.

  18. KICK-OFFpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

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    This is it then.

    Ninety minutes for 24 teams, 12 games to climax a thrilling Championship regular season.

    Whether it's the tales of top-six tussles or centuries brought up... you'll find out about it here.

  19. Five into two just doesn't gopublished at 14:56 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

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    Viktor Gyokeres (Coventry); Tom Bradshaw (Millwall); Amad Diallo (Sunderland); John Swift (West Brom); Ben Brereton Diaz (Blackburn)Image source, Rex

    The battle to make the Championship play-offs this season has been more competitive than ever and with just 90 minutes to go, the permutations are still crazy.

    Let's start with what we know: Luton are going to finish in third and Middlesbrough in fourth. Easy.

    Below that is where it gets complicated. Very complicated!

    Coventry begin the day in fifth, on 69 points. Win at Middlesbrough and they finish fifth, setting up two more games with Boro in the play-off semi-finals. A draw would also be enough to secure a play-off spot for Mark Robins' Sky Blues.

    One place below them, Millwall, also have their fate in their own hands. If they beat Blackburn, they will be in the play-offs.

    The Lions have a two-point cushion over three sides, Sunderland, West Brom and opponents Blackburn.

    The Black Cats are at Preston and the Baggies go to Swansea, knowing that nothing less than victory will do.

    Blackburn also have to win and hope that neither Sunderland or West Brom pick up three points, if they are to jump from ninth into the top-six.

    I need a lie down just writing down these scenarios! Imagine what it is like for the fans of these prospective clubs!

  20. All eyes on the play-off pushpublished at 14:51 British Summer Time 8 May 2023

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    Championship top-half of tableImage source, BBC Sport

    This is the lay of the land before kick off.

    Burnley could break 100 points with a win over Cardiff City today, what an achievement that would be.

    This could be the first of three matches between Middlesbrough and Coventry this week.

    There is a very strong possibility the two sides finish fourth and fifth and meet each other again in the two-legged play-off semi-finals.

    And what a huge moment for Sunderland, West Brom and Blackburn who are all still in the mix for a top six finish if they can snag a win.