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How much is on the line for our Greater Manchester football clubs over the Easter weekend?
National World - LocalTV
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18/04/2025
We had a look at all of our clubs right down to the national League to run through all of the possible permutations that they are facing over the last few weeks of the season.
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Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Hewson-Bertz and for our big
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video today we're going to do a little football round-up for you ahead of the Easter weekend.
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Now today is Friday, they will have games today and they will have games on Monday certainly
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if they are playing in the EFL. This really is one of the biggest weekends in the football
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calendar so let's have a look at what our clubs are facing as we get near to the end
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of the season. We'll start in the Premier League where they'll only have one game each
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with Manchester City set to face off against Everton tomorrow. Man City are obviously desperate
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to work their way into the Champions League places which would sort of salvage a season
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that's turned sour in many ways after winning the league last year. It will be a tough task
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for City. Everton have been pretty good since David Moyes arrived back at the club but if
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they can find themselves into a top four spot and still build up successfully to the FA Cup
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matchup with Forest in a few weeks then they'll have something to salvage from the season.
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Manchester United are looking good in Europe. They're just off the back of a dramatic 5-4
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win over Lyon in the Europa League which was massive in terms of building some momentum
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for Manchester United. It has been a bad season for them but manager Ruben Amarum has retained
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the support of many fans. Their next match is a tough one against Wolves who've improved
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substantially lately. That match is on the Sunday so there won't be much rest for them
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so it's going to be interesting to see if Manchester United can work their way into the top ten.
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Down to League One now and we've got three teams to talk about. Stockport are the ones with
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the most to play for really. They're sat in fourth, five points behind Wrexham who were
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in second. There are four games left so it might be too big of a gap to bridge and they
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have two tough games this week. Playing Peterborough today who've just won a trophy against runaway
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leaders Birmingham and playing Huddersfield on Monday who may have had a bit of a tough
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season but still have some impressive players. They are safely in the playoff spots though
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whereas Bolton are right on the edge of the playoffs. They're three points behind sixth
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place Reading and level on points with Leighton Orient who are in seventh and it's been an
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interesting season for them as well. Saying goodbye to Ian Everett who'd been there for a long
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long time. Steven Schumacher's done a solid job since coming in.
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There's two tough games again though for them this weekend. Playing third place to Wickham
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today and a Lincoln side who proved difficult to be on Monday so there's no room to slip
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up if they do want to have a chance of getting promoted to the championship.
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Finally in League One are Wigan who basically can relax. They're completely safe from relegation
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they don't have much hope of making it into the top half even and really it's been
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another pretty difficult season. Ryan Lowe's a good manager and there has been some
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course for future optimism. They play Shrewsbury today and Rotherham on Monday.
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Finally down in League Two Salford City will have a job to get into the playoffs but it's far from
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done yet. They're four points away from seventh place Grimsby and have a better goal difference
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than them. They are unbeaten in the last five but do have some draws mixed in and they will
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be hoping to win both of their games this weekend coming up against Accrington today and a soon
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to be relegated Morecambe on Monday. Briefly touching on non-league Oldham Athletic and
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Rochdale are both looking to be well in contention for playoff spots. They both start the weekend
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just inside the top seven although there's a lot of pressure from another Greater Manchester team,
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Altringham. Now Altringham have a four point deficit to make up if they want to sneak into
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the playoffs so their battle with Rochdale today will carry a lot of spikes particularly
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being a bit of a local derby and then their match against Halifax who sit in seventh on
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Monday feeling a bit like a season defining game. But that's all for now. Follow Manchester
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World for more and we'll see you again soon.
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