Daniel Wales reviews the weekend results of Leeds United and Bradford City.
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00:00Leeds United welcomed Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday to Elland Road.
00:07For Leeds United it was a comprehensive victory for them against Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship.
00:14The Sunday game at Elland Road brought a 3-0 win for the Whites.
00:18They had gone ahead early in the match thanks to Mano Solomon and that put Leeds in control of the majority
00:24although they weren't actually able to capitalise on that early lead until a lot later in the game, right towards the end of the second half.
00:32Then the goals from Ayo Tanaka and Logie Ramazzani put the Whites in full control and the game ended 3-0.
00:39And it's another really, really important win for Daniel Farker's side,
00:45especially against a team like Sheffield Wednesday who have been doing pretty well this season.
00:50It was always going to be a tough test for Leeds but one they passed with flying colours and set them up nicely for what is a tough week that accumulates
00:57with a trip to Turf Moor to face Burnley at the end of this week.
01:01That will be tough but this has set them up very nicely indeed.
01:04They also had a midweek fixture before that as well.
01:07But the game itself, Leeds were the better side, they deserved to win.
01:10It was just a case of when they got that second goal for the most part.
01:14Mano Salomon did well to get his goal in early but then Leeds, they plugged away Sheffield Wednesday,
01:20did well in defence to keep them at bay and obviously threatened themselves.
01:24But when Leeds got that second, it was game over then.
01:27It came quite late towards stoppage time and then of course the third goal, also in stoppage time as well, put the game beyond Sheffield Wednesday.
01:37And for Leeds, the importance of that cannot be understated, keeps them at the top of the championship tail.
01:42Yes, Sheffield United also won but Burnley of course did not, held to a 0-0 draw against Sunderland.
01:48Of course could have lost that game if it were not for Sunderland having two penalties saved right towards the end of it.
01:54But Leeds, they just need to keep winning these games, that is the order for them.
02:00And they will keep them at the top of the championship, they've got themselves into that position.
02:03Now, it's about staying there.
02:06Bradford City, meanwhile, faced a trip north to Cumbria to take on struggling side Carlisle United.
02:12For Bradford City, they had an important 1-0 away win at struggling Carlisle United in League 2.
02:21At Bradford, it was a game where they were probably expected to win given where Carlisle are and where they have been all season towards the bottom of League 2.
02:30But they have brought in a good few signings of Leighton to Mike Williamson.
02:34And so Bradford had to be wary of that and the fact that there was perhaps an element of the unknown going into this game.
02:40But it was one they dealt with very well.
02:42They got that win, Graham Alexander's side are picking up a lot of important results at the moment in League 2,
02:48which is keeping them in and around those playoff places.
02:51It will be tough, no doubt, until the end of the season to remain there for Alexander's team.
02:57But they're doing all the right things. They're picking up results where they need to.