There simply is no doubting that the Championship is one of the most dynamic leagues going. There really is no safe way of predicting who will beat who, and that’s summed by the fact that 23rd and 24th placed Barnsley and Luton Town have better form over the last five games than 3rd, 4thth and 5th placed Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Brentford.
It seems that even the players in the bizarre division agree that the second tier of English football is complicated, as Filip Krovinovic, the Baggies’ sublime 24-year-old Croatian loanee has been speaking to The Express and Star claiming that it is the most complicated division in the world.
Krovinovic, the £3.6m rated midfield man (Transfermarkt), is a technically sound player with two goals and four assists to his name this season in the Championship, and his recent comments about the league have come in the aftermath of West Brom’s shock defeat at the hands of Wigan at The Hawthorns.
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It’s hard to disagree with Krovinovic either, West Brom are top of the league and have lost just five games this season, yet three of those five losses have come at home against the current 19th, 21st and 22nd placed clubs in Wigan, Stoke City and Middlesbrough (BBC).
You can read Krovinovic’s comments on the Championship here:
‘We lost, we did not want to lose but these things happen in football.’
‘This league is the most complicated league in the world. We have only lost to the teams that are near the bottom of the table. It has been like that.’
‘But that doesn’t mean that they are bad teams, as Wigan showed. We have to think positively and focus on the next game.’
‘Maybe, these things are normal in football.’
‘We have had a lot of games in two/three weeks and even before that. But we need to stand up.’
‘We need to think positively, we have got 10 cup finals and the aim is to win every game. Everything depends on us.’