We begin our Sunday accumulator in Vienna where Austria will be looking to sew up automatic promotion to the top flight when they host Slovenia.

Austria were good winners in Kazakhstan on Thursday night and all they need to do is match the Norway result on Sunday and they will be a League A side in the next campaign.

They will surely be thinking that Norway will win at home to Kazakhstan so Austria will go into this one knowing that they probably need to win else they will be playing off for a promotion spot.

Slovenia saw their hopes of promotion pretty much disappear when they were thrashed by Norway on Thursday evening. They now need to win this game, hope Norway lose to Kazakhstan and overturn a five goal difference.

That feels unlikely so this one is all about Austria, who have had a really good campaign to continue their rise under Ralf Rangnick.

Austria had the luxury of leaving class acts such as Marko Arnautovic and Marcel Sabitzer on the bench on Thursday night and with them expected to return here Austria can form the first leg of the acca.

England finish up their Nations League group with a home clash against the Republic of Ireland on Sunday knowing that a win will ensure they are automatically promoted back to the top flight.

Ireland are one of few teams on the night not playing for anything.
There is a relegation clash to come for Ireland in March and you wonder if relatively new boss Heimir Hallgrimsson will make a few changes to see what options he has at his disposal for that tie.

England interim boss Lee Carsley will be keen to go out with a win and the last thing he will want is to leave new boss Thomas Tuchel with a promotion play-off to open his tenure so England should be all out to win here.

The narrative going into the Greece game on Thursday was that this was a weakened side but that team cruised past the leaders at the time and should not only have enough to beat Ireland but to score a couple of goals or more to secure automatic promotion in style.

Norway have the chance to secure promotion to the top league on Sunday afternoon when they host Kazakhstan in a match the home side probably have to win to achieve their aim of automatic elevation.

Norway currently sit second behind Austria but level on points with the Austrians, trailing them by six goals, so they need to better the Austrians on the afternoon or win by six more than them.

The latter would feel unlikely but if there is a side that Erling Haaland could go nuts against then Norway probably have them in the other side of the pitch in Kazakhstan.

The Kazakhs have been found out at this level, which is no disgrace, and could be cannon fodder here. They haven’t scored a single goal in their five matches and have conceded 10, which all came in the last four games given that these two opened the group with a 0-0 draw.

It will still be a challenge for Norway to win this by more than six goals but there is no point in them not trying and off the back of a 4-1 win in Slovenia on Thursday, they should be expected to win this by a couple of goals at least.

The penultimate leg of our accumulator on Sunday takes us to Helsinki where Greece harbour slight hopes of winning automatic promotion when they travel to a Finland side who we now know will be playing League C football next term.

Greece might think that they have blown their chance of automatic promotion but they should think to themselves that having been in League C last time out, they would surely have taken a play-off to reach the top flight were it offered at the beginning of the campaign.

They have that secured so they can go about looking to win this match and hope that England slip up in the other game in the group. There is a scenario where Greece would overtake England if they win by three more goals than England do so the onus is on Greece to attack here.

Finland have lost all five matches in this group, including a 3-0 defeat to Greece to open up the section, so the visitors look good things here but for accumulator purposes we’ll play a little safer and take the draw out of play.