Championship Team of the Month

Nottingham Forest boosted their play-off hopes by going through March unbeaten and Steve Cooper's side are the dominant one in the WhoScored.com Championship Team of the Month.

Promotion hopefuls Sheffield United are also represented, as are league leaders Fulham, while at the other end of the table; Cardiff, Hull and Barnsley are all represented.

Here, WhoScored.com run through their best rated XI from England's second tier for March.

Cardiff enjoyed an impressive March as 10 points from four games saw them pull away from danger. Only Blackpool (0) conceded fewer goals than the Bluebirds (2) in March to aid their survival bid with Neil Etheridge key. He made the sixth most saves (13) in the division and kept two clean sheets from his four outings to help return a WhoScored.com rating of 7.19.

Nottingham Forest went through March unbeaten to aid their playoff push and they are the dominant side in the WhoScored.com Championship team of the month. On-loan right-back Djed Spence features in defence having earned a rating of 8.00 as he directly contributed to three goals in four appearances, registering two assists, to secure a spot in the side.

Of the 28 points Barnsley have earned this season, five were won in March with Michal Helik key at the heart of the defence. The Pole scored his first league goal of the campaign in their 2-0 win over Bristol City, while 29 clearances was the third-best return as Helik yielded a WhoScored.com rating of 7.48.

With a WhoScored.com rating of 7.44, Millwall's Murray Wallace partners Helik at the heart of the defence. The Lions shipped just two goals in March with Wallace vital in repelling any aerial attack having won 22 headed battles, the eighth most in the division, to nail down his