How the final Championship table is expected to look for Car

How the final Championship table is expected to look for Cardiff City, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool



Cardiff City are in the midst of a relegation battle and the bottom of the Championship table is extremely tight






What a difference a week can make.

This time seven days ago, Cardiff City were facing up to one of their biggest weeks in recent memory, with matches against Birmingham City (away) and Reading (home) on the agenda.

Two wins and six points later, the Bluebirds' relegation picture is looking far more rosy.

Former managers Neil Warnock and Mick McCarthy may have put flies in the ointment a tad on Saturday, with the veteran bosses picking up wins for Huddersfield Town and Blackpool respectively, but those results have sucked Birmingham and Stoke City into the fray somewhat.




Cardiff currently sit 20th on 35 points, with Rotherham United (21st, 33pts), Huddersfield (22nd, 31pts), Blackpool (23rd, 31pts) and Wigan Athletic (24th, 31pst) below them. The four teams beneath Cardiff have all played one game fewer than the Bluebirds.

There is no magic number in terms of points tally survival in the second tier but Warnock suggested a target last week.

"We always say 50 points since three points for a win was introduced and the last few years it's been 47, 48," he said. "I'm never looking at the next few games and trying to set targets. I just want to get as many points as I can as soon as I can. They've thrown some points away the last few weeks. I watched the Blackpool game and I don't know how they didn't win that game but they didn't."





This is how the experts see the bottom of the Championship table finishing.

Preston - 40/1

Hull City - 33/1

Bristol City - 33/1

Reading - 18/1

Stoke City - 4/1

QPR - 14/1

Birmingham City - 12/1

Cardiff - 11/4

Rotherham United - 4/6

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Wigan - 8/15

Blackpool - 4/9

Huddersfield - 1/3

(Odds courtesy of SkyBet and correct at time of publication, please gamble responsibly)

So the bookmakers see Cardiff escaping the drop and the current bottom three falling through the trapdoor, albeit it in a different order.

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Sat Feb 25 – Norwich City (A)



12:30pm Sat Mar 4 – Cardiff City v Bristol City Crowd Away Support ( )

Sat Mar 11 – Preston North End (A)

Wed Mar 15 – West Bromwich Albion (H)

Sat Mar 18 – Rotherham United (A)



Sat Apr 1 – Swansea City (H)

Fri Apr 7 – Blackpool (A)

Mon Apr 10 – Sunderland (H)

Sat Apr 15 – Sheffield United (A)

Wed Apr 19 – Watford (A)

Sat Apr 22 – Stoke City (H)

Sat Apr 29 – Huddersfield Town (H)



Sat May 6 – Burnley (A)





Current Championship Table:

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