Championship: Leeds drop out of top two after Luton draw as Burnley go top

Leeds United dropped retired of the automatic promotion places successful the Championship connected Saturday pursuing a 1-1 gully distant to relegation-threatened Luton Town.

The effect means it is 1 triumph successful six for Leeds, who indispensable present trust connected results elsewhere successful their last six matches of the play if they are to gain automatic promotion.

Having replaced struggling goalkeeper Illan Meslier with Karl Darlow successful the starting XI, Daniel Farke’s broadside fell down to their lowly hosts successful the archetypal fractional with Isaiah Jones netting a back-post volley aft bully enactment from Elijah Adebayo and Jordan Clark.

Leeds were level wrong 13 minutes of the opening extremity aft Dan James curled successful a left-footed decorativeness aft a country had been cleared arsenic acold arsenic him.

With unit growing, owing successful portion to scores elsewhere, Leeds failed to instrumentality the inaugural arsenic the crippled wore connected and stand-in goalkeeper Darlow was required to marque a mates of saves to support them level.

But neither broadside were capable to marque a telling contribution, with some taking a point. For Luton, the spread to information is chopped to 2 points up of Saturday’s aboriginal kick-offs.

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— Leeds United (@LUFC) April 5, 2025

Taking Leeds’ spot successful the apical 2 was Burnley, who came from down to triumph 2-1 distant to Coventry City and spell top.

The Clarets went down aft conscionable 5 minutes astatine the Coventry Building Society Arena aft Haji Wright scored his 4th extremity successful his past 3 appearances.

The United States planetary survived appeals for offside for what was conscionable the seventh distant extremity Burnley person conceded each season.

But Scott Parker’s broadside responded brilliantly and were level done Jaidon Anthony conscionable 11 minutes aboriginal aft a well-worked goal.

Just a infinitesimal into the 2nd half, Anthony bagged some his and Burnley’s 2nd of the crippled to enactment them up aft a antiaircraft mix-up betwixt Liam Kitching and goalkeeper Brad Collins.

The location broadside threw everything astatine Burnley arsenic the 2nd fractional wore on, but were incapable to interruption their resistance. Tensions appeared to get the amended of Coventry caput manager Frank Lampard, who was sent disconnected aft the last whistle for thing helium said to the referee.

Defeat sees the Sky Blues enactment sixth, though they are conscionable 1 constituent supra Bristol City, who person a crippled successful hand.

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— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) April 5, 2025

Elsewhere successful the Championship, Sunderland further cemented their spot successful the play-off positions with a 1-0 triumph distant to West Bromwich Albion.

Trai Hume scored the lone extremity of the crippled connected 35 minutes, with his whipped escaped footwear missing everyone successful the container and going consecutive into the backmost of the net.

Despite the Baggies dominating possession and controlling the game, they were incapable to debar a damaging decision and present way the apical six by 2 points with six games remaining.