Sky Bet Championship play-offs: Fulham 7/4 favs

The EFL sponsors have the form horses at the head of their market, despite the fact the Cottagers finished sixth – the lowest of the four teams involved.

In fact in the past decade, only one team – Blackpool in 2009/10 – have won promotion via the play-offs after finishing sixth.

Fulham, relegated out of the Premier League in 2014, will face Reading in the two-legged semi-finals with the Royals the outsiders of the quartet in terms of the promotion race at 5/1. Fulham are 1/2 to make it to Wembley and Reading, who finished third, 6/4.

Five times in the last 10 years has the team finishing third won the play-offs.

The other tie will see Huddersfield – long-time automatic promotion contenders who ended up finishing fifth – taking on Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday. The Owls have been made slight favourites at 4/5 with the Terriers 10/11 shots to qualify.

Both sides can be backed at 5/2 to go up and join Newcastle and Brighton in the top flight in 2017/18.

Newcastle claimed the Championship title on a dramatic final day thanks to a 3-0 victory over Barnsley – and Brighton failing to win their game.

The Seagulls were on course to win the title when they led 1-0 at Aston Villa but a late, late goal for the hosts – courtesy of a goalkeeping howler by David Stockdale – handed the winners’ medals to Newcastle.

The Magpies are 7/2 to be relegated next season and 1/6 to stay up. They are also 7/2 for a top-half finish and 1/6 to end the campaign in the bottom 10.

Brighton are expected to struggle more. They are just 11/10 to go straight back down – the current relegation market favourites - and 4/6 to survive.

At the bottom, Blackburn were relegated to League One with Nottingham Forest and Birmingham surviving on a nerve-shredding final day.

All three teams claimed victories but Forest’s 3-0 thumping of Ipswich, coupled with a 3-1 win for Blackburn at Brentford, saw the former European champions stay up on goal difference – there were just two goals separating the pair come the final whistles.

Blackburn have been installed as the 13/2 favourites to win League One next season, while they are 2/1 to win promotion straight back to the Championship.

Meanwhile, Forest and Birmingham have both been chalked up as 6/1 shots to go down next season. Barnsley and Burton are the 2/1 favourites in that market as things stand.

The League One play-off final was also set on Sunday as Bradford and Millwall saw off Fleetwood and Scunthorpe respectively.

The duo cannot be split ahead of their Wembley showdown - it's 5/6 each of two in terms of who is promoted to the Championship on May 20.

That is perhaps no surprise given both of their encounters this season ended in 1-1 draws - at the Den in September and Valley Parade in January.

In the 90-minute betting, you can back either side at 17/10 with 21/10 on offer that the clash goes to extra time.

Sky Bet Championship play-off schedule:

May 13 (1730 BST) – Fulham v Reading
May 14 (1200 BST) – Huddersfield v Sheffield Wednesday

May 16 (1945 BST) – Reading v Fulham
May 17 (1945 BST) – Sheffield Wednesday v Huddersfield

May 29 (1500 BST) – Final (at Wembley)

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Premier League

Arsenal are into 4/1 for a top-four finish in the Premier League after beating Manchester United 2-0 on Sunday.

The Gunners triumphed thanks to goals from Granit Xhaka and Danny Welbeck and the result keeps their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League for a 20th successive season very much alive.

With four games still to play, Arsenal have 63 points. Fourth-placed Manchester City have 69 with three left but Liverpool look less secure - they have 70 points with just two to play.

Liverpool slipped up again in the top-four chase on Sunday when they drew 0-0 at home to Southampton but United's loss means Jurgen Klopp's men now know that they will pay in next season's Champions League if they win their last two domestic games.

Liverpool are 1/7 to finish in the top four (and 9/2 not to). City are 1/50 with United - who have 65 points with three matches to play - now 14/1.

They will still hope to qualify for the Champions League by winning the Europa League. They are 1-0 up on Celta Vigo heading into Thursday's semi-final second leg.

Meanwhile, Sunday's results confirmed Tottenham's place in next season's Champions League.

Top-four run-in:

Chelsea Pld 34 Pts 81 GD +43

May 8 – Middlesbrough H
May 12 – West Brom A
May 15 - Watford H
May 21 – Sunderland H
May 27 – Arsenal N (FAC F)

Tottenham Pld 35 Pts 77 GD +48

May 14 – Manchester United H
May 18 - Leicester A
May 21 – Hull A

Liverpool Pld 36 Pts 70 GD +29

May 14 – West Ham A
May 21 – Middlesbrough H

Manchester City Pld 35 Pts 69 GD +33

May 13 – Leicester H
May 16 - West Brom H
May 21 – Watford A

Manchester United Pld 35 Pts 65 GD +24

May 11 – Celta Vigo H (UEL SF 2L)
May 14 – Tottenham A
May 17 - Southampton A
May 21 – Crystal Palace H
May 24 – UEL F

Arsenal Pld 34 Pts 63 GD +24

May 10 - Southampton A
May 13 – Stoke A
May 16 - Sunderland H
May 21 – Everton H
May 27 – Chelsea N (FAC F)