Leeds United are looking for automatic promotion back to the Premier League this season, but the Championship’s top four teams are all in good form.
Leeds’ biggest game of the season so far is a home game against Leicester City on Friday night at Elland Road, with the expectation that a win will go a long way toward making the crown something to seek again.
The two teams immediately below Leeds, Ipswich Town and Southampton, are in close proximity and ready for any slip-up by the Whites.
Championship table as it stands: Leeds hopes to get Leicester within six points.
Leeds’ victory over Plymouth was not the prettiest of displays, but it was nice to witness after previous poor showings resulted in defeats earlier in the season.
When combined with Leicester’s loss at home to Middlesbrough on the same Saturday, as well as Southampton’s midweek defeat at home to Hull City, the top four is beginning to form a tighter group.
Leeds will undoubtedly take that after heading into 2024 with two consecutive defeats, a nine-point deficit to second, and a 17-point deficit to Leicester.
| Position | Club | MP | W | D | L | GD | PTS |
| 1 | Leicester City | 33 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 43 | 78 |
| 2 | Leeds United | 33 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 35 | 69 |
| 3 | Ipswich Town | 33 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 69 |
| 4 | Southampton | 33 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 67 |
| 5 | West Brom | 33 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 55 |
| 6 | Hull City | 33 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 54 |
Gabby Agbonlahor wants Ipswich to be promoted.
TalkSPORT pundit Gabby Agbonlahor was appraising the promotion race when Ipswich Town’s Conor Chaplin came on their Breakfast Show this morning.“Everyone I speak to, they are like ‘yeah I want Ipswich to come up’.”
“They are people’s second team, and image being promoted two years in a row.
“I simply believe it’ll be incredibly upsetting for Leeds, Southampton, and Ipswich, or whoever misses out.
