Wolves and Blackburn the value picks for back-to-back relegations

Although odds-on at 8/13 to suffer consecutive relegations, value still appears evident in Wolves’ price to lose their Championship status.

Wanderers remain in the second-tier drop zone only on goal difference, but if manager Dean Saunders’ comments are anything to go by, they face a monumental task to play their way out of danger.

Indeed, with five games of Wolves’ season remaining, Saunders outlined his belief that three victories would see them safe.

As the Molineux outfit have triumphed just once since, they would need to take maximum-point hauls from matches at home to Burnley, and away to in-form Brighton to fulfil their manager’s target.

But although the visit of the 15th-placed Clarets, themselves not yet safe from relegation danger, would seem to represent a terrific chance for Wolves to succeed, it should be noted that no Championship side has won less times on their own patch this term.

And even if they do emerge victorious from that bout, Wanderers could theoretically travel to the Amex Stadium in the knowledge that nothing but a win will do, a daunting prospect opposing a team that are unbeaten in their past seven matches.

Meanwhile, punters searching for meatier odds regarding Championship relegation candidates could take an interest in Blackburn Rovers’ 6/1 price for the drop.

Another side to have gone into freefall since plummeting from the Premier League last term, Gary Bowyer’s charges find themselves only two points adrift of danger, and in possession of the division’s joint fourth-worst attack.

Their remaining fixtures come against a Millwall side they haven’t breached in three attempts this term, as well as a Crystal Palace team that emerged 2-0 victors from the reverse tie earlier in the season.

And a trip to Birmingham rounds off Rovers’ season, meaning the Ewood Park outfit have taken just one seasonal point from the teams they are set to square off against between now and the end of the campaign.

An improvement on that return would likely be required to keep them in the division, and so the prospect of two recently-relegated Premier League sides plying their trade in England’s third tier next season suddenly doesn’t appear too far-fetched.

All Odds and Markets are correct as of the date of publishing.