Brentford’s win leaves Leeds’ top-two hopes hanging by a thread

Leeds United have spent 32 weeks in the automatic promotion places this season, but unless something remarkable happens in the last two, they will spend the most important week just outside.

This 2-0 defeat to Brentford was their second loss in four days, putting them three points behind second-placed Sheffield United and, because of a significant goal difference gap, realistically means they need the Blades to slip up in both of their remaining games. Given one of those is against Ipswich, it doesn’t look good. It also let Norwich off the hook a little: the Canaries now require just a point from their remaining two games to go up, after disappointingly drawing their last four.

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