April is the time when every team competes like a Premier League team competes in European club football, because they compete on weekends, midweek, weekends and midweek. There is no break at all.
Since passing the national team program on March 23, the tournament has been playing at a great pace. Come back to play on Friday 29th March and play 3 consecutive matches on Friday – Monday – Friday. Midweek matches will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by another Saturday.
And it will be like this for the rest of the month. Seeing each other's faces and backs more clearly.
Anyone who quit a level during this period can say that the hard work went into it because previously, if a level was stopped for two weeks, it meant losing points in just two matches. But this month, if the level stops for 2 weeks, it means losing points in 4 matches you should be doubly exhausted as getting them back as the matches end, there are fewer and fewer left.
Competition in every field is more intense like this. Each point has a high risk.
Especially in the struggle for the first two places to obtain promotion tickets to the English Premier League.
Leicester City 40 matches 88 points
Ipswich Town 41 games 87 points
Leeds United 41 games 86 points
In the latter situation, Leicester City can breathe a lot easier than last Friday's game when they were the only team in the group competing for automatic promotion to collect 3 points, not only that, both Leeds and Ipswich are still unbeaten. Both hands
The back-and-forth turned out to be a game in which the Blue Foxes gained a 6-point advantage.
Although it cannot compare to the relief it was when they were 12 points ahead in mid-February, it is certainly better than the anxiety that has arisen over the past fortnight as Ipswich and Leeds refuse to be shaken.
Like two games ago in last Monday's game. Leicester, who played first, managed to hit the ball against Norwich City with a score of 3-1, but at the end of the match, both the White Horse and the Golden Bees did not make any mistakes and won in a way that put the Foxes fans to sleep.
Ipswich, who led Southampton 1-2 in the first half, equalized 2-2 in the 68th minute and scored a 3-2 winner from Jeremy Sarmiento, the 21-year-old Ecuadorian national team striker on loan. Brighton
Sarmiento's goal came in the 90th + 7th minute, which brought the Portman Road fans into a state of happiness.
Meanwhile, Leeds United also came late in the game. He played until the 87th minute, still drawing 1-1 with Hull City, then Crescenzo Summerville. The talented winger scored a penalty kick to give the team a 2-1 lead in the 88th minute, before Daniel James scored his 13th goal of the season, securing three points for the team in the 90th + 7th minute.
Overcoming their rivals and fighting for the promotion as far away as before again seems difficult for Leicester City when it gives them the opportunity to come back from 12 points, gradually closing the gap more and more. And even surpassed it in a few weeks.
So last Friday's game was a very important turnaround for Leicester City, as it was the first time in 8 games that they had won over Leeds and Ipswich in the same round.
For the first time since a 12-point lead in mid-February, Leicester won and both Ipswich and Leeds missed out on the title.
Leicester beat Birmingham City 2-1, while Leeds lost 1-2 to Coventry City and Ipswich lost 0-1 to Norwich City in the battle of honor. Norfolk Suffolk is part of the eastern region
Let's talk about momentum. It may be back in Leicester City's hands once again, and tonight, if Enzo Maresca and his team don't make the mistake of visiting Millwall again, he should regain confidence, and he has come in full form.
Tonight, Leicester City kicks off at 1:45am. It remains impossible to be careless as Millwall escape relegation.
Leeds United took the field after 15 minutes to host Elland Road against Sunderland. In the middle of the table
As for Ipswich Town, they will be in action tomorrow (Wednesday, April 10), as they welcome Watford, another mid-table team, to Portman Road.
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And when they began to falter in the second half of February, losing three games in a row to Middlesbrough, Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers, Leicester's momentum fell behind both Ipswich and Leicester.
The Blue Foxes seemed to be unable to pick up the pace and had to work harder to win each match, and after losing 3 matches in a row, they came back to win the away matches. Sunderland, but the next two matches, visits to Hull City and Bristol City, collected only one point.
Especially in the first leg against Bristol City against Ashton Gate, where Leicester attacked throughout the match and had many opportunities to score goals, but all of them were wasted. In the end, the match ended in a 0-1 defeat, without any points for the team to bring back.
But Ipswich and Leeds happily continued to collect points, rarely making any unforced errors.
Before the start of last weekend's match, Leeds won 14 and tied 2 of the last 16 matches, while Ipswich won 9 of the last 10 matches, and the loss was a fateful match scored by the local team, Cardiff City. In extra time 90+5 and 90+10
Overall, it is clear that the momentum belongs to both the White Horse and the Golden Peas compared to Leicester who have lost 4 out of 7 matches.
But that's it. You can have bad form, and you can have good form. If there is an up, there can also be a down. Nothing is really certain.
Leicester entered 2024 with a first-half performance of 25W20D2L3 and had to struggle and pretend to be bad. Come back and get another chance from the Leeds and Ipswich opener.
Got this chance Will the Foxes, who have learned their lesson about leadership but can't finish the job, not look back the rest of the way in the remaining six games of the season?
With a lead of 1 and 2 points and with one match remaining, the challenge from now on must remain to win every remaining match. Because they lost in a draw or lost only one match the situation can still be reversed.
Leicester City – Ipswich Town – Leeds United
Two of these three teams will be automatically promoted. The remaining team should keep their playoff hopes going.
Turn around, turn around…
I don't know if Friday's final change will be the last, but the five games remaining for Leeds and Ipswich and the remaining six games for Leicester are certainly still plenty.
There's just enough left for another change to happen.. You can confirm here.
-Dang Kui-
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