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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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