{"id":7664,"date":"2025-12-29T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2025-12-29T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:51:24","slug":"five-things-to-look-out-for-in-efl-whose-2025-will-end-on-a-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7664","title":{"rendered":"Five things to look out for in EFL: Whose 2025 will end on a high?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are no doubts about the headliners among the dozen Championship matches on Monday, with leaders <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Coventry<\/b> and third-placed <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ipswich<\/b> kick-starting the entertainment in the earliest match (18:00 GMT) at the Coventry Building Society Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frank Lampard&#8217;s side have an eight-point lead over <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Middlesbrough<\/b>, with a further five back to pre-season favourites Ipswich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Tractor Boys will be hopeful the bruises from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cn09w58k024t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">3-0 victory<\/a> in the reverse fixture on 6 December are still tender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite that highlight, Kieran McKenna&#8217;s side endured a December very much in keeping with a two steps forward-one step back type of season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Either side of that crushing win over the Championship leaders, there were draws against Blackburn and on Boxing Day against Millwall, as well as a loss in between to Leicester City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Consistency from week to week has not been their strong point this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Coventry, a free-scoring opening to the season saw them grab top spot and they have not released it since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with just two wins out of five this month and only four goals scored, could they be experiencing a touch of mid-season dip? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After scrambling past Swansea on Boxing Day, a more emphatic three points here against a side who may yet turn out to be their closest rivals would be huge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c98n7032qy6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no doubts about the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}