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Palace Are Playoff Favourites
Wednesday 07 May 2008 at 10:38
 Crystal Palace's late season form has seen them installed as favourites to win promotion to the Premier League via the Championship playoffs.
Neil Warnock's Eagles lost just one of their final 12 league games to secure fifth position following a dismal start to the campaign under ex-manager Peter Taylor.
In the playoff semi-finals Palace face a Bristol City side that squandered their chance of automatic promotion by winning just two of their last ten games.
Warnock's side are 4/6 with Skybet to win the two-legged tie and 2/1 with 888Sport to climb out of the division, but the veteran boss warned that his players cannot afford to be complacent when City travel to Selhurst Park for the first game on May 10th.
"I think our record is one of the best in the league away from home and we will need to be careful in the first leg," he told Teamtalk.
Bristol City are 11/8 with Betfred to reach the final and 4/1 outsiders with Stan James to clinch promotion, but manager Gary Johnson believes that in Lee Trundle he has a player capable of turning the tie in his side's favour.
"Lee may be coming good at just the right time and that could be said for the team in general," he claimed after the ex-Swansea striker scored the opener in Sunday's 3-0 win against Preston.
Trundle is 17/2 at Bet365 to score the opening goal in the first leg, with Palace's 16-goal frontman Clinton Morrison 11/2 favourite at Betdirect.
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