Leeds blew an enormous opportunity at the weekend when a first home league defeat of the season arrived at a time when even a point would have put the Whites back into the Championship’s automatic promotion places. Instead, a 1-0 reverse at home to Blackburn Rovers left Daniel Farke’s side third, a point behind Leicester City who have a game in hand and two points behind new leaders Ipswich Town. Leeds and Ipswich both have just three games left whereas Leicester have four more to play.
But fourth-placed Southampton are still in the mix in what is now mathematically a four-horse race for automatic promotion. Russell Martin’s Saints secured a last-gasp 3-2 win at home to Watford on Saturday which put them just six points behind Leeds but with two games in hand and a fixture at Leeds on the horizon on the final day of the season. Fifth-placed West Brom and the teams behind them are now too far back to get involved but the Baggies are one side that will have a huge say on who finishes in the top two.
Between them, Leeds, Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton now have a total of 15 games left – but two of those fixtures see autos rivals face each other – meaning 13 games that will determine who finishes in the automatics. Here, we run through those games in chronological order, the first of which is tomorrow night.
