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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 29: Saturday 21 January 2006
Leeds United 3 - 0 Sheffield Wednesday
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 27843
Referee: D J Gallagher (Banbury)
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The race to see who will join runaway leaders Reading in the
Premiership next season would be a hell of a lot closer if it wasn't
for Leeds United's knack of losing to the Championships so-called
weaker sides.
Last Saturday's reverse at Brighton had been the latest in a
growing list of defeats against clubs battling to beat the drop, a
trend that began in September with defeat to Sheffield Wednesday at
Hillsborough. If Kevin Blackwell's men were serious about pipping the
steel city's other team to second place, this was one opportunity they
simply couldn't afford to pass up.
Thanks largely to a performance by Wednesday that was tepid, Leeds
didn't. That said, this Yorkshire derby had 0-0 written all over it
until the latter stages, when the home side finally broke down the
visitors' stubborn yet unadventurous 4-5-1 formation to keep the
pressure on Sheffield United, twelve points ahead but over whom they
have a game in hand.
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