Bookies install Fulham as clear favourites for play-off promotion

Bookies install Fulham as clear favourites for play-off promotion

The Cottagers are the pick for promotion despite their last-day heartbreak.

Fulham are the bookies favourite for promotion, following their third place finish in the Championship this year. 

They’re as short as 7/4 to be promoted via the play-offs, which implies a 36.4% of going up in layman’s terms. 

In total, just over a quarter of all bets in the past week have been placed on the London club breaking their play-off hoodoo.

The West London team are comfortable favourites to emerge victorious, followed by Aston Villa (3/1), Middlesbrough (3/1) and Derby (5/1)

However, only four of the past ten teams to finish third in the Championship have clinched Premier League status via the play-offs.

Oddschecker spokesperson George Elek: “Fulham will have to bounce back from the disappointment of failing to win automatic promotion on the last day of the regular season.

“However, punters and bookies alike see them as having a great chance of returning to the Premier League. 

“Slavisa Jokanovic’s side were knocked out by Reading in the semi-finals last year, so will have to go one better against Derby this time around to reach the Wembley final.”

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