Sheffield United are looking to finish the season on a high after an upturn in form and performances in recent months under manager Chris Wilder.
Last weekend’s 1-0 victory over Portsmouth allowed the Blades to climb up to 15th in the league table, leaving the club just six points off the top six positions.
“We’re doing everything we can to go on a winning run,” said defender Tyler Bindon after the match.
“Everyone did really well from the strikers up top to Coops in goal. Getting a result at the end of the day is the most important thing no matter how you go about doing that.
“Hopefully we can start now. It’s never easy to do that so we just take it game by game step by step and we’ll look to do that.”
Sheffield United face a potentially season-defining six-game run, which starts with a home clash against fierce city rivals Sheffield Wednesday before further challenges against the likes of Coventry City, QPR, West Brom, Norwich City and Birmingham City.
But how do their fixtures compare to the teams around them in the play-off hunt, including Wrexham, Preston, Derby County and more? Here we take a look while giving every team a fixture rating difficulty out of 10.
1. Swansea City
Bristol City (H), Preston North End (H), Ipswich Town (A), Stoke City (H), Portsmouth (A), Wrexham (A) Swansea have five fixtures against team's above them in the Championship table. And a challenging test against a Portsmouth team fighting for their lives to survive. It's far from ideal. Fixture difficulty rating: 7.5/10 | Getty Images
2. Stoke City
Leicester City (H), Oxford United (H), Coventry City (A), Swansea City (A), Ipswich Town (H), Watford (H). The fact Stoke have four games on home soil makes this a fairly favourable fixture list, although clashes with Coventry and Ipswich are likely to be very difficult, with both targeting automatic promotion. Fixture difficulty rating: 6.5/10 | Getty Images
3. QPR
Hull City (A), Southampton (A), Sheffield United (H), Middlesbrough (H), Birmingham City (A), Leicester City (A). Four of QPR's next six matches are against teams above them in the league table. The majority of matches are also away from from Loftus Road, making it a challenging period. Fixture difficulty rating: 7.5/10 | Getty Images
4. Watford
Derby (H), Ipswich (H), Bristol City (A), Wrexham (H), Sheffield Wednesday (A), Stoke (A) This is a fairly challenging run of fixtures. With the exception of the Owls all of these teams are in and around the play-off places. Fixture difficulty rating: 7/10 | Getty Images