{"id":78145,"date":"2024-04-02T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/tight-at-the-top-as-ipswich-lead-championship-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T03:16:07","slug":"tight-at-the-top-as-ipswich-lead-championship-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/tight-at-the-top-as-ipswich-lead-championship-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight at the top as Ipswich lead Championship | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ipswich were left with a slender one-point lead at the top of the Championship on Monday as the race for automatic promotion to the Premier League headed towards a thrilling finale.<\/p>\n

Leeds left it late to see off Hull 3-1 in the final Championship fixture of the day as they went second in the table, just a point behind Ipswich.<\/p>\n

And Leicester reignited their bid for automatic promotion with a 3-1 win at home to Norwich.<\/p>\n

They ended the day in third place, a point behind Leeds and two adrift of Ipswich<\/a> but with a game in hand.<\/p>\n

Only the top two clubs at the end of the regular season are guaranteed a place in the Premier League, with the teams finishing third to sixth involved in the post-season play-offs that determine the other promoted side.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Sarmiento proved to be a ‘super sub’ after scoring a stoppage-time winner as Ipswich, briefly nudged off top spot by Leicester, returned to the summit with a dramatic 3-2 win at home to Southampton.<\/p>\n

It seemed as if goals from Che Adams and Adam Armstrong had put Southampton on course for victory following Leif Davis’s well-struck opener for Ipswich.<\/p>\n

But Ipswich, who’ve now won 31 points from losing positions this season, again proved to be masters of the comeback.<\/p>\n

Nathan Broadhead equalised in the 68th minute before Southampton’s Jason Bree was sent off in the 85th minute for dragging back Davis.<\/p>\n

Ipswich’s attitude was summed up when Sarmiento, despite a slip, struck in the seventh and final minute of stoppage time to spark delirious scenes at Portman Road.<\/p>\n

“It was right up there,” said Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna. “It was another brilliant day, brilliant match to be involved in.”<\/p>\n

Defeat effectively ended Southampton’s hopes of automatic promotion, with manager Russell Martin lamenting: “We were the best team, we didn’t deserve to lose.”<\/p>\n

Leeds also left it late to reclaim second place at Elland Road.<\/p>\n

Goals from Sam Byram and Fabio Carvalho cancelled each other out but an 88th-minute penalty from Crysencio Summerville and Dan James’ effort deep in stoppage-time made the game safe for Leeds.<\/p>\n

James’s strike, with Hull goalkeeper Ryan Allsop off his line as the Tigers went in search of an equaliser, capped a difficult week for the Wales winger after he had a penalty saved in a shoot-out loss to Poland that denied his country a place at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n

“There was no doubt this was a well-deserved win…but it was a complicated game for us,” Leeds manager Daniel Farke told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“For many of my players it was their third game in six days because they’ve played on Tuesday or Wednesday on international duty.”<\/p>\n

Goals from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy enabled Leicester to complete a comeback after Gabriel Sara gave Norwich the lead.<\/p>\n

Leicester have topped the table for much of the season, but Monday’s success was just their third win in eight league games, with Foxes boss Enzo Maresca saying: “This was important, because we are in the final part of the season.”<\/p>\n

At the other end of the table, Rotherham staved off relegation for at least another week by beating Millwall 2-1 as they ended a run of 15 games without a win courtesy of just their fourth league victory of the season.<\/p>\n

Birmingham moved two points clear of the relegation zone with a 1-0 win over play-off hopefuls Preston, Jay Stansfield scoring the only goal of the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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