Leeds’ Kalvin Phillips rescues point at Boro after Jack Clarke taken to hospital

Kalvin Phillips’ 101st-minute headed equaliser may come to be seen as the moment when, following a few wrong turns, Leeds United’s push for automatic promotion was put back on course. Yet the final stages here also produced serious anxiety when it appeared that Leeds’ Jack Clarke, who had been taken off at half-time, had collapsed and required urgent, lengthy medical attention in the visiting dugout.

Before then, Lewis Wing’s goal had left Middlesbrough on course for a victory that would have left Tony Pulis’s side only four points behind Marcelo Bielsa’s second-placed side with a game in hand. But towards the very end of the 12 minutes of injury time, Liam Cooper headed a ball back across goal and Phillips used his forehead to send the ball beyond Darren Randolph’s reach and earn Bielsa’s side a potentially priceless point.

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