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Bournemouth prepare for play-offs with fans

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The EFL Championship season for 2020/21 has come to an end, 46 games with over 40 behind closed doors. It has already been a season like no other. Norwich City and Watford have already secured an immediate return to the Premier League, whilst Rotherham United, Sheffield Wednesday and Wycombe Wanderers have been relegated to League One.

One final matter to resolve is the play-offs. Brentford, Swansea City, Barnsley and AFC Bournemouth enter the end-of-season showcase with a Wembley final and promotion to the Premier League at stake.

Who will win the Play-Offs?

Brentford

Brentford

Swansea

Swansea

Barnsley

Barnsley

AFCB

AFCB

There is the possibility that these games will be played in front of some supporters and AFC Bournemouth are planning accordingly, opening a ballot to season ticket holders to enter. To read how to do this and all of the covid-19 protocols that are in place, click here.

The vast majority of supporters will be watching the games from home.

All of the play-off semi-finals and finals from the Championship, League One and League Two are live on Sky Sports.

AFC Bournemouth’s play-off fixtures against Brentford will take place at Dean Court on Monday 17th May with kick-off at 6pm, the second-leg at Brentford’s new stadium will be on Saturday 22nd May at 12.30pm.

The final at Wembley will be held on Saturday 29th May.

With at least two more AFC Bournemouth games live on television, this brings the tally of games shown on either Sky Sports or BT Sport this season to twenty-eight (potentially twenty-nine) with the games against Coventry City (away), Cardiff City (away), Watford (away), Bristol City (home), Reading (home), Nottingham Forest (home), Preston North End (home), Barnsley (away), Swansea City (away), Wycombe Wanderers (home), Brentford (away), Stoke City (away), Derby County (away), Reading (away), Nottingham Forest (away), Rotherham United (home), Cardiff City (home), Watford (home), Bristol City (away), Swansea City (home), Norwich City (away), Millwall (away) and Brentford (home) all shown either on Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football or on the Sky Sports Football – Red Button service.

The FA Cup is shown on the BBC, BT Sport and the FA website, the Cherries third-round tie against Oldham Athletic was shown on BT Sport Extra, as was the fourth round tie against Crawley Town. The fifth-round tie against Burnley and the Quarter-Final fixture against Southampton both featured on BT Sport.

Your say…

Waz afcb wrote…

Does anyone really believe that we have the mentality or fight to go up? Brentford will know that all they have to do is repeat their performance of a few weeks ago, sit back on us and mark Danjuma tightly. We have no answer to this, haven’t really all season. Not enough fighters (physically and mentally) in this team to supplement the quality we have. We really lack leaders on the pitch and it shows.

northstandmark wrote…

We have it in us to beat Brentford, but we’d have to be at our absolute best, towards the best stuff we’ve seen all season. Promotion is about momentum, peaking at the right time. I fear we peaked in April.

Its one heck of an ask, to go from this low ebb of 3 poor defeats and players cutting frustrated figures again, to the absolute peak of our game on the back of a week on the training ground, where nobody will be pushing too hard for fear of injury.

You don’t go from 2nd or 3rd gear straight into 6th and flying, but that’s exactly what we’ll have to do now. – Join the conversation, click here.

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