{"id":22145,"date":"2025-01-31T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/efl-preview-a-weekend-of-returns-wonderkids-and-derby-delights\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:46:35","slug":"efl-preview-a-weekend-of-returns-wonderkids-and-derby-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/efl-preview-a-weekend-of-returns-wonderkids-and-derby-delights\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL preview: A weekend of returns, wonderkids and derby delights"},"content":{"rendered":"


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League Two leaders Walsall saw their nine-game winning run – and 16-match unbeaten streak – ended by Bradford with a 3-0 defeat at Valley Parade last weekend.<\/p>\n

Crewe, who were second before last Saturday’s games, lost 1-0 at home to Accrington, while Port Vale and AFC Wimbledon drew with Chesterfield and MK Dons respectively.<\/p>\n

Following the midweek fixtures, only Walsall have retained their place in the top four, but it’s still incredibly tight in the race for automatic promotion and the play-off spots.<\/p>\n

Even the Saddlers have had a wobble of late, losing again at Fleetwood on Tuesday, meaning their 12-point gap at the top has been cut to nine by Doncaster Rovers, who have now won three on the bounce.<\/p>\n

It’s still a pretty hefty advantage, though Mat Sadler’s side will want to get things back on track when they host Salford City, while in-form Bradford City welcome fellow promotion challengers AFC Wimbledon in the pick of the games on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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League Two leaders Walsall saw their nine-game winning run – and 16-match unbeaten streak – ended by Bradford with a 3-0 defeat at Valley Parade last weekend. Crewe, who were second before last Saturday’s games, lost 1-0 at home to Accrington, while Port Vale and AFC Wimbledon drew with Chesterfield and MK Dons respectively. Following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[8307,1748,8304,8305,576,2786,8306],"class_list":["post-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-delights","tag-derby","tag-efl","tag-preview","tag-returns","tag-weekend","tag-wonderkids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22147,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions\/22147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}