The third and final promotion ticket to the Premier League is decided on Sunday afternoon (26/5, 17:00, Cosmote Sport 1HD) in a packed “Wembley”.
Where the Leeds and Southampton (with typically the home team playing first) face off in final of playoffs her Championship. In the fight of “£200m”! Amount of money, in other words, that will be received approximately by the team that will prevail and go up to the “big salons”. In fact, whichever of the two, if they succeed, will immediately return to the first division after last year’s relegation (just like Leicester).
Besides, it is recalled that the Leicester and Ipswich have already secured direct promotion through the regular season.
The game is single. In the event of a tie at the end of regular time, there will be a half-hour overtime and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.
Both of today’s opponents confirmed the title of favorite in the semifinals of the playoffs. To be precise, in the return matches, as their first game ended without a score.
In their seats, therefore, they got the victories they were looking for. Leeds with the wide 4-0 on her Norwich of Dimitris Giannouliswhile Southampton with the 3-1 on her West Brom.
In the competitive part now, typically the home team will not have the injured player at their disposal Patrick Bamfordwhile his return is considered important for their opponents Che Adams.
Possible compositions:
Leeds (Daniel Farke): Meslier – Gray, Rondon, Abadu, Firpo – Guev, Kamara – Gnodo, Rutter, Somerville – Piroe.
Southampton (Russell Martin): McCarthy – Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bailey, Bednarek, Stephens – Ayodele-Aribo, Smallbone, Downes – Brooks, Armstrong, Fraser.
It should be noted that Leeds finished in 3rd place of normal duration, with 90 degrees and to +3 from the 4th Southampton, which however prevailed in both of their meetings this year (3-1 home and 2-1 away).
The referee of the match will be John Brooks.
Source: Sport Fm
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