Leeds lined up for Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off hosting of Burnley knowing that victory could send them third yet instead Daniel Farke’s Whites suffered a first league defeat of the new season as the Clarets left Elland Road with a 1-0 success. The blow left Leeds down in ninth place, two points behind Burnley who leapfrogged the Whites in jumping up to fifth place in the early table.
Early leaders Sunderland then squandered the chance to kick further ahead as they suffered a first defeat of the season via a 3-2 reverse at Plymouth Argyle. But the weekend finished with the continued emergence of a potential key new automatic promotion contender in West Brom who moved top with Sunday’s 3-0 triumph at Portsmouth.
Leeds now find themselves five points behind the Baggies and four points adrift of Sunderland in the second automatic promotion spot, albeit with just five give games played of a marathon 46-game campaign. Nevertheless, it’s all led to the bookmakers forming a fresh verdict as to how they think the final 2024-25 Championship table will present itself based on the very latest odds.
The bookmakers didn’t even have West Brom finishing in the play-offs at the start of the new campaign but here is the new predicted final table from bottom to top using promotion and relegation odds accordingly.
20. 5th: Sheffield United (play-offs)
Title odds: 10-1 (with 12 firms). Photo: George Wood
21. 4th: West Brom (play-offs)
Title odds: 10-1 (with nine firms, now as short as 6-1 with others, the shortest they have been). Photo: Nathan Stirk
22. 3rd: Middlesbrough (play-offs)
Title odds: 10-1 (with one firm). Photo: Richard Sellers
23. 2nd: Burnley (automatic promotion as runners-up)
Title odds: 11-2 (but now as short as 4-1 with some firms. Photo: George Wood
24. 1st: Leeds United (promoted as champions)
Title odds: 15-8 (drifted out but still strong favourites and still as short as 11-8 with some firms). Photo: George Wood