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Vital Brighton and Newcastle fixtures live on Sky Sports

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Image: Newcastle and Brighton's penultimate games will be live on Sky Sports

Brighton and Newcastle's penultimate fixtures of the Sky Bet Championship season will be shown live on Sky Sports.

Newcastle's trip to Cardiff on Friday, April 28, will be shown live on Sky Sports 1 at 7.45pm, as Rafa Benitez's side look to secure automatic promotion back to the Premier League.

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Brighton, who currently trail Newcastle by a point with eight games remaining, will host Bristol City at 5.30pm on Saturday, April 29, as they look for a first-ever promotion to the Premier League.

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 28: Rafael Benitez manager of Newcastle United shakes hands with his players after the Sky Bet Championship match between Brig
Image: Newcastle are favourites to earn automatic promotion

The two sides are well-placed to secure automatic promotion live on Sky in these two games, with Newcastle seven points clear of third-place Huddersfield, and Brighton six clear. Huddersfield, however, do have a game in hand.

Next up in the Championship live on Sky Sports is Derby v QPR, on Friday, March 31 from 7pm, before Reading v Leeds at 5.15pm the following day.

Brighton and Hove Albion manager Chris Hughton
Image: Chris Hughton is looking to take Brighton to the Premier League for the first time

We then have two midweek fixtures on the box, with Rotherham v Sheffield Wednesday (Tuesday, April 4, 7.30pm) and Huddersfield v Norwich (Wednesdya, April 5, 7.30pm).

View all of the EFL Championship games live on Sky Sports here

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