Forest are big Championship winners while Bowyer tops losers

Nottingham Forest are now the play-off favourites. How will they cope? Plus all your other Championship winners and losers here…

Winners

Millwall – play-off outsiders

Monday’s 2-1 win over Hull had more than an element of fortune – Scott Malone’s opener was highly fortuitous – but at a certain level, you make your own luck. They are still on the outside looking in, as they have been at best all campaign, but Gary Rowett’s side are firmly knocking on the door with a plethora of competitors around them hitting stumbling blocks of form. Four points from their Easter weekend couplet of fixtures is the sort of form which could be enough to get Millwall above the dotted line come May.

Nottingham Forest – play-off favourites

But on Monday, it would have been easy to let the defeat to Luton three days before affect them badly. Instead, Forest were imperious from the get-go. When the pressure was on them ever so slightly, they pushed it back with aplomb and put in one of the most complete first-half performances of the season from any team in this division. The hard part was getting into the play-offs – that is all but done. Now they have to cope with the pressure of being the favourites to win them. If any team is capable of coping with that pressure, it is Cooper and co.

Dominic Solanke

Jordan Rhodes

Harry Cornick

Talking of teams with one foot and one toe in the play-off places, Harry Cornick’s superb header afforded Luton a cushion within the top six thanks to a second 1-0 win of the Easter weekend. If beating Nottingham Forest was the best and most important way to overcome a recent slump, taking maximum return from a trip to Wales was just as vital in consolidating such a turnaround.

Cornick is not the only long-serving