Hull City will aim to retain their place in the top six when they host bottom side Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
The Tigers are only three points ahead of seventh placed Wrexham, with a poorer goal difference than the Red Dragons and sixth placed Southampton.
The side are currently in the worst form of the three teams too, having lost three of their past four league matches (W1), but relegated Wednesday have only managed to bag one point from their past 15 Championship games.
Hull lost this exact fixture against Sheffield Wednesday last season (0-2 in November 2024), while only once previously have they lost consecutive home league matches versus the Owls (April 2005).
Since winning 2-0 at Hull last season, Sheffield Wednesday have gone winless in all six of their Championship matches against sides from Yorkshire and the Humber, losing five of them (D1).
Hull have lost three of their last four Championship matches (W1), as many defeats as they had suffered in their previous 15 combined (W10 D2 L3).
Sheffield Wednesday are winless in their last 32 league matches (D8 L24); the longest streak without a win by any side in England's top four tiers since Macclesfield, in a run ending in October 2018 (36).
Oli McBurnie has netted 13 goals for Hull in the Championship this season; only once has he scored more in a single league campaign in his career (22 for Swansea in 2018-19).
