Leicester continued their unrelenting charge towards the Premier League, taking..
With their 5-0 thumping of Stoke on Saturday, Leicester continued their unrelenting charge towards the Premier League, taking an 11-point lead. Just before the half-hour mark in Stoke, Kasey McAteer extended the visitors’ lead after Patson Daka started the scoring. Before Jamie Vardy came off the bench to finish the rampage and score his first goals in the league since November, Daka scored his second goal from the penalty spot. Leicester, who were demoted from the Premier League the previous season, is expected to return to the top division right away.
Ipswich defeated 3-2 against Preston and wasted the opportunity to get back into the top two.
Ipswich faltered once more a week after being humiliated by non-league Maidstone in the FA Cup fourth round, this time due to a Will Keane
brace in Deepdale, along with George Edmundson’s own goal.
Kieffer Moore, an Ipswich rookie who entered the game off the bench at halftime, scored twice, but Preston held on for a win that put them in the play-off spots.
Southampton moved up to second place with a 2-0 victory over struggling Rotherham, capitalizing on Ipswich’s defeat.
The high-flying Saints went 23 games without a loss at New York Stadium thanks to a commanding performance that included goals from Jan Bednarek and Adam Armstrong in the first half.
Rotherham, at the bottom of the table, has only won once in their last 17 league games and is 12 points from safety.
At Carrow Road, Borja Sainz’s late goal helped Norwich defeat Coventry 2-1.
The winger from Spain finished neatly in the 84th
minute to seal the 10-man Sky Blues’ first 13-game losing streak.
Callum O’Hare’s goal gave Mark Robins’ team the lead early in the second half, but Josh Sargent’s close-range finish 12 minutes later pulled one back.
With an early goal by Jaden Philogene, Hull defeated Millwall 1-0 to secure their place in the play-offs.
In the fifth minute, the winger scored, giving the Tigers their second straight victory.
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Sheffield Wednesday was crushed 4-0 by Huddersfield, who had just fired Darren Moore on Monday.