At worst, Marcus Hahnemann's Reading extends their season and Danny Califf's FC Midtjylland had more problems than expected from Sonderjyske.
The Championship
Reading 2 - Norwich City 0
Clean sheet for Marcus Hahnemann and Shane Long gets both Reading goals in the 68th and 78th minutes. Reading will need results from other teams to move from fourth to second and win automatic promotion, but they've already qualified for the playoffs regardless of what happens on the last day of the Championship season. We had one thing in our mind which was to get ourselves set up for Sunday," Long said. "Luckily for me we've done that, I managed to get a couple of goals and we are delighted with the win. I think we did the donkey work in the first half because we wore them down. In the second half we came out and did what we had to, we kept a clean sheet as well so it was a very good day at the office all round."
SAS-Ligaen
FC Midtjylland 2 - Sonderjyske 4
Danny Califf gets the start and goes the full ninety against the SAS_Ligaen's bottom club. Midtjylland got an own-goal opener just before halftime to make it 2-1 Sonderjyske, already leading through a 32nd minute penalty from R Hansen and a 35th minute goal from Ken Ilso Larsen. Midtjylland would seem to have gotten back into it when Mikkel Thygesen brought them level in the 65th, but that only lasted four minutes when Kenneth Fabricius scored for Sonderjyske. R Hansen converted another penalty in the 76th to finish off the scoring. FC Midtjylland entered the game in fourth with no chance of moving up or down. There's a 15 point gap between them and Odense BK in third, with the top two clubs in Denmark qualifying for Europe.
DID NOT PLAY: Heath Pearce's Hansa Rostock drew 0-0 with VfL Osnabruck. Hansa are within two points of escaping the relegation zone in the 2.Bundesliga.
