Leeds United, Leicester City and Ipswich Town are all separated by just one point in the Championship top three. Only two will be promoted automatically, as Daniel Wales reports.
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00:00 The race for automatic promotion in the championship to the Premier League is tightly contested
00:08 between three clubs wanting to take just two spaces. Current league leaders Leeds United
00:14 sit on 82 points with a +42 goal difference thanks to their most recent win against Millwall.
00:22 In second place are Leicester City who did have a large gap in first place that has been
00:28 whittled down by Leeds and third place Ipswich Town. They also sit on 82 points and with
00:35 a +41 goal difference meaning just one goal separates them and Leeds United. And then
00:42 finally in third place Ipswich Town sit on 81 points just one point behind the teams
00:49 in first and second. Only two teams can take the automatic promotion places to the Premier
00:55 League with 36th going into the playoffs.