The Yorkshire Evening Post’s Lee Sobot outlines the remaining fixtures for Leeds United and the other clubs who are vying for automatic promotion from the Championship.
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00:00 But we'll look at the top three of you, as I mentioned, their Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Leeds United.
00:07 It's been an interesting few weeks, as I say, neither three really out there very best.
00:14 And so if we look at the run ins, who's likely to do it?
00:18 Of course, a million dollar question. That one isn't it? You're quite right about Southampton, first and foremost.
00:23 I mean, obviously, they're the four favourites, even if they get a win in this game, you know, that we're speaking ahead of tonight.
00:29 But even with Southampton before that, I think last week there were 100 to 1 finishing the top two,
00:33 and those odds have very quickly gone down to nearer like 20s and even getting towards 10.
00:36 So, I mean, they are closing. And Daniel Farke has actually said in his last couple of presses about Southampton,
00:41 you know, almost unprompted, you know, don't forget about them, etc.
00:44 So by no means forgetting them, especially with the fact they're playing Leeds on the last game of the season.
00:49 And it's not difficult to see it going down to the last game of the season, to be honest.
00:53 Now, the interesting thing with the schedule is, which is a big factor, really,
00:57 especially if pressure does things to teams, which I'm sure it can do, is how long Ipswich have now got without a game,
01:03 obviously, because they were supposed to be playing Coventry this weekend.
01:05 And obviously, they're still in the FA Cup. So that game's basically been shelved and moved forward a little bit.
01:09 So what it does mean is it means Leeds played twice before Ipswich, obviously, Middlesbrough away and QPR away.
01:15 I mean, that in itself is a difficult week because obviously they've both been moved to Sky.
01:19 So you've got like two away days, other ends of the country, one on a Monday night and one on a Friday,
01:24 with not an awful lot of recovery time in between, you know, so that's difficult in its own right.
01:28 But simply, they've got to go into those two games and get six points, you know, and then pile the pressure on Ipswich.
01:34 And obviously, then the gap will change. The gap would then become four.
01:36 So, you know, like, obviously, that's what they've got to go and do.
01:39 They've got to go and get those six points in those games.
01:42 The thing I would say with the run-ins is you would look at the other games and you can see the other teams slipping up.
01:48 And, you know, to be honest, at the moment, everyone's slipping up against anyone anyway.
01:53 No disrespect to other teams, but I mean, who would have seen Leeds slipping up against Sunderland, you know,
01:57 and obviously Blackburn and Leicester as well at Plymouth.
02:00 All right, Plymouth are fighting for a fighting relegation, but every team seems to be dropping points at the moment.
02:05 But even if they weren't, you'd look at these fixtures and think there's chances there.
02:08 Leicester obviously play first. They've got West Brom this weekend.
02:11 I think that's a Saturday lunchtime kickoff.
02:13 So, I mean, West Brom obviously look like they're pretty much safe in the playoffs, but nevertheless, you know, they're a decent team.
02:18 They're flying reasonably high. So there's obvious chances there, especially with Leicester having lost the last two.
02:22 So there's a chance there. Leeds obviously then go to Borough.
02:26 Leicester-Southampton is the game in hand. That is absolutely huge.
02:29 And if you're looking at Leicester in terms of, you know, what game are they going to slip up in?
02:33 I mean, could slip up in any, but that's the one you look at straight away because Southampton will obviously, you know,
02:37 assuming they keep going between now and then, they'll have to get on.
02:40 They'll have to be almost perfect to have any chance of the top two.
02:43 And then Leeds obviously go to QPR, who, you know, another team fighting the drop, who, you know, sort of like are down towards.
02:48 They'll probably be all right, but very much scrapping away as well.
02:51 So that's the first ones that come up. Obviously, then it's switch go to Hull.
02:56 And then you've got Leicester going to Preston.