In the early morning of April 24, Beijing time, the Championship played a heavyweight make-up match, the top of the Leicester City, home to the fourth Southampton, this game has a significant impact on the promotion situation, if Leicester City loses points, they will fall into passivity, and Southampton only wins, can hope to compete for 2 direct promotion places.
Prior to this, Southampton had won 3 of the last 4 rounds, and the team had a strong momentum of grabbing points, while Leicester City won 1 of 3 rounds and even lost to 2 relegation teams. Although Leicester City has the advantage of strength, but the form is not as good as the opponent, it looks like it should be a close battle, but the result is unexpected, Leicester City finally won 5-0, beating the opponent to the ground.
In the 25th minute of the first half, Fattau received the ball in front of the offside, and then pushed the goal. Leicester City started the game on the offensive and after squandering a couple of chances, finally broke the visitors' door.
After taking a 1-0 lead, Leicester City were in high spirits and then they were largely in control of the game. In the 61st minute, Ndidi scored with a header to rewrite the score to 2-0, and as soon as this goal was scored, it basically killed the suspense of the game. Fattau then scored from distance to extend his team's advantage.
In the 79th minute, the aging Jamie Vardy also scored, and he swept the ball from close range and the ball flew against the post and into the goal. Difficult for the Southampton goalkeeper, he made a save, but the result was still a beat slow. Jamie Vardy then set up Al-Fattau's goal with an unselfish cross from inside the box, and he also scored a hat-trick to make it 5-0.
In this game, Leicester City finally stopped pretending, facing Southampton, who were fourth in the league, and they declared themselves the hegemony of the Championship with a hearty victory. Leicester City lead the Championship table by four points, and only one more win will secure a top-two finish and a return to the Premier League.
It can lose to two relegation teams such as Millwall and Plymouth, and can beat a strong team like Southampton, Leicester City's performance is really incomprehensible. This also makes people even more suspicious that they had upsets one after another before, whether they were intentional. Now the team is facing the pressure of promotion, and the result is a big explosion in attack, which shows that Leicester City really can't find an opponent in the Championship. Whether they want to win or not is all in a thought.
In the last 2 games, Leicester City's opponents are Preston North End and Blackburn Rover, with their strength, as long as they play normally, I believe that it will not be a problem to win 1 game. If nothing else, Leicester City will occupy one direct promotion spot, while the fate of the other is still highly uncertain.
As we all know, the top two teams in the Championship can be promoted directly, and now Leeds United is 1 point ahead of Ipswich, but the opponent has 1 game less, once the last 3 rounds, Ipswich can win all of them, they will be promoted to the Premier League, and Leeds United can only play in the play-offs. However, Ipswich wants to get all 9 points, and it is not easy, their opponents in the last three rounds, namely Hull City, Coventry City and Huddersfield, because of the small goal difference, but Van Ipswich will lose the initiative if they have a winless game.
As for Leeds United, their opponents are Queen's Parade Park and Southampton, they must win all two games and then wait for Ipswich to make a mistake, otherwise, Leeds United will go into a brutal play-off and whether they can be promoted by that time is difficult to say!