Leeds United losing hope in automatic promotion race after Ipswich Town beat Coventry City — Yorkshire Post 30/4/24
Leeds United’s chances of securing automatic promotion to the Premier League suffered a huge blow on Tuesday night as Ipswich Town jumped above them into second place.
By Nick Westby
The Tractor Boys beat Coventry City 2-1 to move three points
clear of Leeds United with one game left to play in the 2023/24 Championship
season.
Leeds, who are now third, host Southampton at Elland Road on
Saturday at 12.30pm.
Ipswich Town host Huddersfield Town, who were all but
relegated last Saturday after drawing with Birmingham City.
Leeds have a better goal difference than Ipswich by +6, so
need to win and hope Huddersfield can do them a favour by snatching a win at
Portman Road that would send Leeds back to the Premier League.
Ipswich only need a point to secure a second successive
promotion having pipped Sheffield Wednesday to second place in League One just
12 months ago.
Cameron Burgess put Ipswich within touching distance of the
Premier League with the winner at Coventry.
Kieffer Moore had put the Tractor Boys a goal ahead early on
before Haji Wright’s second-half equaliser.
But Burgess squeezed his effort through a crowd of bodies
almost immediately to put Kieran McKenna’s men within a point of Premier League
football for the first time since 2002.