Pulis: We did not create enough
4 DAYS AGO - Tony Pulis lamented Middlesbrough's inability to create more chances during their 1-0 aggregate Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Tony Pulis lamented Middlesbrough's inability to create more chances during their 1-0 aggregate play-off defeat to Aston Villa. Collapse
Aston Villa survive late Stewart Downing scare to reach Wembley final
4 DAYS AGO - A long, traumatic season for Steve Bruce could yet deliver a happy ending of sorts as Aston Villa Expand
4 DAYS AGO - A long, traumatic season for Steve Bruce could yet deliver a happy ending of sorts as Aston Villa moved to within 90 minutes of a return to the Premier League. For Bruce, who has been through such a distressing time after losing both parents in the past three months, it would be a remarkable achievement if he can see this gruelling campaign through and mastermind his fifth promotion to the top flight. Related: Aston Villa v Middlesbrough: Championship play-off semi-final – live! Continue reading... Collapse
Most improved club in England is...
6 DAYS AGO - We have ranked every club for league improvement in England's top four tiers - so where does your Expand
6 DAYS AGO - We have ranked every club for league improvement in England's top four tiers - so where does your club sit? Collapse
Pulis: We're still in the tie
7 DAYS AGO - Middlesbrough boss Tony Pulis insists his side are still in the tie despite losing 1-0 at home to Expand
7 DAYS AGO - Middlesbrough boss Tony Pulis insists his side are still in the tie despite losing 1-0 at home to Aston Villa in the first leg of their play-off semi-final. Collapse
Middlesbrough 0-1 Aston Villa: Championship play-off semi-final – as it happened
7 DAYS AGO - Mile Jedinak’s first-half goal gives Villa the advantage going into Tuesday’s second leg. 7.12pm Expand
7 DAYS AGO - Mile Jedinak’s first-half goal gives Villa the advantage going into Tuesday’s second leg. 7.12pm BST Steve Bruce speaks: “We had to defend very well. We went too deep in the second half. But the resilience! The second half was very difficult but we kept a clean sheet, we’ve got an advantage, coming to Middlesbrough’s never easy, so we’ll take that and look forward to Tuesday. It’s a small advantage. It’s half time. They’ve got to come to our place, but we all know the Championship, how ridiculous it is!” 7.10pm BST The seven-time champions of England take a precious lead back to Villa Park for the second leg on Tuesday! 7.09pm BST 90 min +6: Traore skips in from the left, but can’t fashion space to shoot. That allows Grealish to scamper up the other end, eating up what’s left of the clock. 7.08pm BST 90 min +5: Well that’s all the added time used up, but with Terry having gone down seeking treatment, there’s more! 7.07pm BST 90 min +4: ... Terry goes down holding his neep. The Collapse
We need the Riverside to be rocking
11/05/2018 - Middlesbrough manager Tony Pulis has asked fans to sell out the Riverside stadium for their Expand
11/05/2018 - Middlesbrough manager Tony Pulis has asked fans to sell out the Riverside stadium for their play-off match against Aston Villa. Collapse
WATCH: Jeff's play-off preview
09/05/2018 - Jeff Stelling previews the soaring highs and the crashing lows of the play-offs ahead of the Expand
09/05/2018 - Jeff Stelling previews the soaring highs and the crashing lows of the play-offs ahead of the climax of the 2017/18 Sky Bet EFL campaign. Collapse
Late Boro equaliser seals fifth place
06/05/2018 - Middlesbrough will face Aston Villa in the Sky Bet Championship play-offs after substitute Patrick Expand
06/05/2018 - Middlesbrough will face Aston Villa in the Sky Bet Championship play-offs after substitute Patrick Bamford's header in the sixth minute of injury time gave the Teessiders a 2-2 draw at Ipswich. Collapse
WATCH & VOTE: EFL Goals of the Month
04/05/2018 - Watch and vote for your favourite April goal in the Championship, League One and League Two here...
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Villa book final against Fulham
4 DAYS AGO - Aston Villa are through to the Sky Bet Championship play-off final after holding off Middlesbrough Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Aston Villa are through to the Sky Bet Championship play-off final after holding off Middlesbrough at Villa Park on Tuesday night. Collapse
The top club in England is...
5 DAYS AGO - Which is the top club in the land? Which teams are punching above their weight and which historic Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Which is the top club in the land? Which teams are punching above their weight and which historic powerhouses languish in the lower divisions? The Ultimate League for 2017/18 has arrived... Collapse
When does your club's season start?
6 DAYS AGO - The new Premier League season starts on August 11, but champions Manchester City will be in action Expand
6 DAYS AGO - The new Premier League season starts on August 11, but champions Manchester City will be in action a little earlier. Collapse
Jedinak heads Villa to first-leg win
7 DAYS AGO - Mile Jedinak's header handed Aston Villa the advantage in their play-off tie with Middlesbrough as Expand
7 DAYS AGO - Mile Jedinak's header handed Aston Villa the advantage in their play-off tie with Middlesbrough as they edged a 1-0 win at the Riverside Stadium. Collapse
Middlesbrough v Aston Villa given added poignancy by Percovich return
11/05/2018 - Leo Percovich, Boro’s former goalkeeping coach, returns to the Riverside for the Championship Expand
11/05/2018 - Leo Percovich, Boro’s former goalkeeping coach, returns to the Riverside for the Championship play-off semi-final after losing two daughters in a car crashShortly after 5pm on Saturday evening the mood at the Riverside is expected to turn almost unbearably poignant. For a few moments at least the impending, potentially season-defining duels, between Adama Traoré and Alan Hutton and Britt Assombalonga and John Terry, will no longer seem to matter quite so much.As Middlesbrough prepare to kick off against Aston Villa in a play-off semi-final which could help transform club finances and individual careers, Leo Percovich is scheduled to complete an emotional journey from Rio de Janeiro to the stadium’s posh seats. Related: QPR part company with Ian Holloway after underwhelming campaign Related: Fulham lead march of heavyweights in £200m Championship play-offs | Ben Fisher Continue reading... Collapse
Prutton's play-off predictions
09/05/2018 - David Prutton returns with his predictions ahead of the first legs of the Sky Bet Championship, Expand
09/05/2018 - David Prutton returns with his predictions ahead of the first legs of the Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two play-off semi-finals. Collapse
Fulham lead march of heavyweights in £200m Championship play-offs | Ben Fisher
09/05/2018 - Slavisa Jokanovic’s men have history on their side but there are reasons to believe for Expand
09/05/2018 - Slavisa Jokanovic’s men have history on their side but there are reasons to believe for Middlesbrough, Derby and Aston VillaSome teams flourish, some fret and some freeze but there is nothing quite like the pressure-cooker that is the Championship play-offs, where promotion and almost £200m are at stake. By June, one of four reasonable heavyweights – Aston Villa, Derby, Fulham or Middlesbrough – will be back in the Premier League.Four legs and a final, at Wembley, will decide who that is but until then, let the brave, often defeatist, meaningless rogue predictions, mind games and number crunching commence. Now is the time to be choked by cliche; how form is temporary, class is permanent and how head-to-head records and the state of the league table counts for nothing any more. Or does it? Related: Cardiff may not be liked but Neil Warnock’s achievement is extraordinary Related: David Squires on … the Premier League relegation battle Continue reading... Collapse
Championship final-day preview
04/05/2018 - The Sky Bet Championship is heading for a dramatic final day with one promotion, one play-off and Expand
04/05/2018 - The Sky Bet Championship is heading for a dramatic final day with one promotion, one play-off and two relegation places still to be decided. Collapse
LISTEN: EFL Matters podcast
03/05/2018 - Listen to the EFL Matters podcast, as Gareth Ainsworth and Don Goodman join David Prutton to Expand
03/05/2018 - Listen to the EFL Matters podcast, as Gareth Ainsworth and Don Goodman join David Prutton to preview the final weekend in the Championship, League One and League Two. Collapse
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Aston Villa v Middlesbrough: Championship play-off semi-final – as it happened
4 DAYS AGO - Aston Villa will face Fulham in the Championship play-off final on 26 May after beating Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Aston Villa will face Fulham in the Championship play-off final on 26 May after beating Middlesbrough 1-0 on aggregate 10.08pm BST I’ll leave you with this expert take from Stuart James from Villa Park. Next stop: Wembley on 26 May for the Championship play-off final between Aston Villa and Fulham. It’s bound to be a good one. That’s all from me for now. Thanks for reading and emailing. Bye. Related: Aston Villa survive late Stewart Downing scare to reach Wembley final 10.06pm BST Steve Bruce speaks! “We’ve shaded it over the two games. They haven’t had a shot on target. That stood us in good stead. First half, we gave the ball away a bit. Second half, we controlled it. It was agony towards the end. But it means so much. Thankfully it seems we’ve turned the club round a bit. We have to beat a very good team in Fulham. We need a few days to rest.” 10.04pm BST Paul Merson is tearing into that game on Sky. What a man. 10.01pm BST Looking at the replay of Johnstone’s handball outside Collapse
Grown-up Grealish has found his focus, says Aston Villa’s Steve Bruce
5 DAYS AGO - • Grealish had to deal with toxic dressing room, adds Bruce• Villa lead Boro 1-0 from Championship Expand
5 DAYS AGO - • Grealish had to deal with toxic dressing room, adds Bruce• Villa lead Boro 1-0 from Championship play-off first legUntil recently Jack Grealish was routinely pigeon-holed as a self-destructive, troubled talent but Steve Bruce believes his playmaker was merely a victim of Aston Villa’s once noxious dressing-room culture.If there is no reason to doubt the Villa manager’s assessment, Grealish also seems to have done an awful lot of growing up. The 22-year-old would – if Villa go up – return to the Premier League as an infinitely more mature version of the midfielder who once drove managers to distraction. Related: Mile Jedinak soars to sink Boro and steer Aston Villa toward play-off final Related: Ryan Sessegnon guides Fulham past Derby into Championship play-off final Continue reading... Collapse
Prutton's play-off predictions
7 DAYS AGO - David Prutton returns with his predictions ahead of the second legs of the Sky Bet Championship, Expand
7 DAYS AGO - David Prutton returns with his predictions ahead of the second legs of the Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two play-off semi-finals. Collapse
Mile Jedinak soars to sink Boro and steer Aston Villa toward play-off final
7 DAYS AGO - Steve Bruce will always look back on the first half of 2018 as one of the unhappiest chapters in Expand
7 DAYS AGO - Steve Bruce will always look back on the first half of 2018 as one of the unhappiest chapters in his personal life but, professionally at least, things are looking up a little. Aston Villa’s manager is grieving following the death of his father in February and his mother at the start of this month, yet remains intensely committed to achieving a promotion, the fifth of his managerial career, that he had until recently hoped to celebrate with them.Mile Jedinak’s first-half header from a quickly taken corner places Bruce well on course to fulfil that hope, leaving Tony Pulis’s Middlesbrough with it all to do in the second leg at Villa Park on Tuesday night. Continue reading... Collapse
Bruce: My experience can help Villa up
11/05/2018 - Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce feels his Championship play-off managerial experience can help the Expand
11/05/2018 - Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce feels his Championship play-off managerial experience can help the club win promotion back to the Premier League. Collapse
Championship stats XI of the season
09/05/2018 - The Sky Bet Championship season is over but there is still plenty to play for as we await the Expand
09/05/2018 - The Sky Bet Championship season is over but there is still plenty to play for as we await the play-offs. Collapse
When are the Sky Bet EFL play-offs?
06/05/2018 - The dates for the Sky Bet EFL play-offs have been confirmed, with all 12 fixtures live on Sky Expand
06/05/2018 - The dates for the Sky Bet EFL play-offs have been confirmed, with all 12 fixtures live on Sky Sports and set to take place during a hectic nine-day period. Collapse
Ipswich v Middlesbrough preview
04/05/2018 - Ipswich's caretaker manager Bryan Klug will be without Grant Ward once again as he attempts to Expand
04/05/2018 - Ipswich's caretaker manager Bryan Klug will be without Grant Ward once again as he attempts to finish the Sky Bet Championship season on a high with victory over Middlesbrough. Collapse
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