Image source, PA Media. ByBrendon Mitchell, BBC Sport Senior Journalist and James Piercy, BBC Sport England. 8 hours ago. 241 Comments. Coventry may not have been at their free-flowing best during Monday’s goalless draw at Hull City – but it does leave them tantalisingly close to promotion to the Premier League.. Four points from their remaining five games is all they need to secure a top-two spot and end their 25-year wait for a return to top-flight football.. The Sky Blues may even get over the line on Saturday if they beat already-relegated Sheffield Wednesday at the CBS Arena and the chasing pack drop points – again.. “We have five games to go and to be in the position we’re in, from our point of view, we need to cut out the noise and just deal with Sheffield Wednesday in front of us,” manager Frank Lampard told BBC CWR.. “Everyone will expect us to win it from the outside, but we have to put that to the side and approach the game with real professionalism and try to get that done.. “It may not get us absolutely over the line, but we will know it makes it a lot, lot closer.”. Even stats specialists Opta think it’s a done deal, with their prediction table giving Coventry a 100% chance of promotion.. But if the Sky Blues are, indeed, all but up – who will join them in second place?. Just 72 hours on from their eye-catching 2-1 win at fellow high-fliers Middlesbrough, Millwall were the first of the promotion contenders to play on Easter Monday.. The Lions, who started the day in second place after that victory at The Riverside, looked well set to strengthen their hold on that position when Mihailo Ivanovic put them in front early in the second half against Norwich.. But Pelle Mattsson’s stunning equaliser and Oscar Schwartau’s winner for the Canaries with 14 minutes left meant the door was ajar once more for the chasing pack.. “All the games at this stage of the season are physically and emotionally tough because there is so much riding on them,” Millwall boss Alex Neil told BBC Radio London.. “We’re not going to win every game. Although today is disappointing and frustrating, even if we’d got a result nothing is going to be decided yet.. “It’s going to go to the wire and we’ve got to just stay in there.”. Could Ipswich, who were up next at home to Birmingham, capitalise on that slip?. They were given an early scare when Carlos Vicente put Blues 1-0 up, but the hosts had turned the game around before half-time through goals from Ben Johnson and Kasey McAteer.. The 2-1 victory helped them leapfrog Millwall into the top two and extended their unbeaten run in the Championship to eight games – but this was the first time this season the Tractor Boys had come from behind to win.. “The first comeback win of the season is really important and I think it’s been coming,” said manager Kieran McKenna. “I’ve said that over the last few weeks and months.. “Every time we’ve had a setback our reaction is getting better and better and I think today was the best
