{"id":617535,"date":"2026-05-01T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:15:08","slug":"who-finishes-second-in-championship-pundits-fans-managers-have-their-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617535\/","title":{"rendered":"Who finishes second in Championship? Pundits, fans &#038; managers have their say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daniel, Ipswich fan: Surely we&#8217;ve got it in the bag. QPR are possibly the most &#8216;on the beach&#8217; a team can be, I cannot see us not winning. Millwall and Boro have been outstanding this season, probably performed better than us, but unfortunately it seems like we&#8217;ve just edged it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew, Millwall fan: I hold out absolutely no hope whatsoever that QPR will do us a favour at Ipswich. QPR were on the beach when they played us and I&#8217;d expect something similar on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul, Middlesbrough fan: We blew it a while back. Home games against weaker teams where we dropped points. Oxford and Pompey spring to mind. Those wins would&#8217;ve had us up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, Ipswich fan: I just have this uneasy feeling that Ipswich will lose against QPR whilst Boro and Millwall both win, thus putting Town in the play-offs where they will fall short. Hope to be proved wrong but Ipswich have a unique way of putting us through it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fozzie, Millwall fan: I hope Millwall finally get some last game luck &#8211; a win for Lions and draw for Ipswich. Having missed out on play-off places in recent years, we really need some good fortune. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If we don&#8217;t, we will look back at the home game against Blackburn as a major injustice. Very dodgy red card, which was overturned, strange refereeing decisions and three lost points. A good season could still turn out to be an amazing season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andy, Middlesbrough fan: I have to say that if you asked me eight months ago &#8216;Would Boro be in the play-offs?&#8217; I&#8217;d have had your hand off! Retrospectively, I&#8217;d now say we have blown second place, but there&#8217;s a slim chance we can do it Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proud to support the Boro, I feel we are the best team in the mix, just that spell without a win in seven killed us. I think Ipswich deserve second place on their recent form&#8230; But who knows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian, Ipswich fan: If we play against QPR with the determination we showed v Saints we will be too strong for them. But if we fail we will not have the resistance to win the play-offs. Millwall will beat relegated Oxford and I fancy Wrexham to beat Boro. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regardless, Saints look strong, they are the form team and will win the play-offs as they did two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel, Ipswich fan: Surely we&#8217;ve got it in the bag. QPR are possibly the most &#8216;on the beach&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-617535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}