How will Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa fare in the Championship this season?
The 2017-18 Championship campaign gets underway this evening. While Nottingham Forest will face Millwall at the City Ground, Sunderland will take on Derby County at the Stadium of Light in a few hours’ time.
Ahead of the new season, we look at some of the most interesting odds on bet365.com regarding the Championship.
Middlesbrough are the favourites to win the Championship title with odds of 6/1, while Aston Villa are second favourites with 7/1.
Sheffield Wednesday have finished in the top six of the Championship for the past two seasons and have some of the best players in the division, but Carlos Carvalhal’s side are only 10/1 to win the league title – Fulham and Wolverhampton Wanderers are ahead of them with odds of 8/1 and 10/1 respectively.
Leeds United had an encouraging season in 2016-17 and narrowly failed to finish in the top six of the Championship.
The Whites have a new manager and have made some good signings in the summer transfer window so far, but bookmakers do not seem to rate their chances too highly this time around.
The West Yorkshire outfit’s odds of finishing in the top six are only 9/4 – Wolves, Derby County and Norwich City all have better odds despite ending up below them in the league table last season.
Chris Wood was the best player for Leeds and scored 27 goals in the Championship last season, and it is not a surprise that he is the favourite to repeat his heroics this time around.
The odds of the New Zealand international striker finishing as the top scorer in the league this season are 8/1, same as Jonathan Kodjia. The 27-year-old Aston Villa forward found the net 19 times in the league in 2016-17.
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