Championship Predictions > Dec 26th

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[StevieDay1983]

The next round of Championship games are coming up on Boxing Day this weekend. All the teams are in action. It's a festive bit of carnage so let's hear what predictions you all have for your own teams this week! Any bets you're backing?

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Cardiff vs Brentford

The festive season is upon us and the merciless schedule that footballers face is now approaching. Cardiff play Brentford in their Boxing Day fixture that is set to kick-off at 3pm at the Cardiff City Stadium. To put it simply, this is a battle between one side that is consistently inconsistent and another team that is building up a head of steam for what appears to be another Premier League promotion push.

Cardiff actually did what I was expecting of them for once this season in the last game away against Norwich. It was a match that was just too far for our players as the quality of the opposition told. The Bluebirds are still in 10th place and only 4 points off the play-offs but it just feels we're not playing well enough or consistent enough to warrant staying in the hunt. Neil Harris is still under fire from a large portion of our fan base as he has started to make the same mistakes repeatedly which he wasn't doing last season. He's also become a lot more cautious. We were at our best when we had a Devil may care attitude and just went at times. It's also mind-boggling how Lee Tomlin was so influential as an AM behind Robert Glatzel in last season's run yet now we have, arguably, an upgrade on Tomlin in Harry Wilson yet Harris sticks him out wide. It's 2 defeats from our last 3 league games and this is a tough one so that record could get worse.

Brentford will be celebrating reaching the EFL Cup Semi-Finals after their deserved win over Newcastle in the midweek. Thomas Frank is also leading a Bees surge up the table with the team unbeaten in 12 league games with the club now in 4th place in the table and just 3 points off the automatic promotion spots. 7 clean sheets from their last 13 competitive matches shows how resilient this Brentford side has become at the back. Combine that with the creative talent they have in midfield mixed with the clinical finishing of new recruit Ivan Toney up front. How on earth the Brentford recruitment team manage to find these players and the coaching staff get the best out of them season-after-season is mystifying but all credit to them.

The last time these two teams met was back on 29th February of this before all of this lockdown malarkey kicked off. It ended in a 2-2 draw and was quite a feisty affair. Brentford have only won 1 of the last 6 encounters and haven't won at the Cardiff City Stadium in their last 4 visits so recent history is very much on the side of the hosts. I'm swaying between an away win and draw. We've drawn 3 of our last 4 league games on Boxing Day in drab affairs and haven't won a game on Boxing Day since 2012. This Cardiff side could well surprise me but I'd be shocked if we broke that barren festive spell here. I think I'll back the draw.

Draw @ 3.40 with Unibet

Total Goals Scored Under 2.5 @ 1.64 with Novibet

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Barnsley vs Huddersfield

 

 

Barnsley

Doubtful: Elliot Simões (8/1 f), Jordan Williams (7/0 d)

Out (injuries/other): Aapo Halme (7/0 d), Ben Williams (0/0 d), Mike Bähre (0/0 m)

Suspended: -

 

Huddersfield

Doubtful: Ben Hamer (15/0 first goalkeeper, probably in)

Out (injuries/other): Danny Ward (8/0 f), Christopher Schindler (12/0 d, captain), Josh Koroma (16/6 m, top scorer), Richard Stearman (13/0 d), Tommy Elphick (0/0 d)

Suspended: -

 

Over/Under Goals
Barnsley 10 home games	Huddersfield 10 away games

60%	Over 1.5 goals	80%
50%	Over 2.5 goals	70%
20%	Over 3.5 goals	20%
0%	Over 4.5 goals	20%
0%	Over 5.5 goals	10%
40%	Under 1.5 goals	20%
50%	Under 2.5 goals	30%
60%	Over 0.5 goals at half-time	70%
20%	Over 1.5 goals at half-time	30%
0%	Over 2.5 goals at half-time	20%

 

Bristol City vs Wycombe

 

 

Bristol City

Doubtful:

Out (injuries/other): Jamie Paterson (14/3 f), Chris Brunt (12/0 m), Andreas Weimann (7/2 f), Jay Dasilva (9/1 d), Steven Sessegnon (2/0 d), Alfie Mawson (5/0 d), Joe Williams (0/0 d), Liam Walsh (0/0 m), Nathan Baker (0/0 d)

Suspended:

 

Wycombe

Doubtful: Anthony Stewart (16/1 d), Curtis Thompson (11/0 m), Dennis Adeniran (10/0 m), Dominic Gape (5/0 m), Ryan Tafazolli (2/0 d)

Out (injuries/other): -

Suspended: Alex Pattison (5/0 m)

 

Win/Draw/Lose
Bristol City 10 home games	Wycombe 10 away games

40%	Win	10%
20%	Draw	20%
40%	Lose	70%
20%	Win and over 1.5 goals	10%
20%	Lose and over 1.5 goals	50%
0%	Team won first half	0%
80%	Draw at half-time	40%
20%	Team lost first half	60%

 

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[yossa6133]

Backed Norwich to win at Watford tonight @7/4. Top of the league and in great form while Watford have stuttered and I think should be a fair bit lower in the table.