Leeds battered Stoke City 6-0 but had to wait for Burnley\u2019s 2-1 win over third-placed Sheffield United to ensure they and The Clarets both secured promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Leeds were 5-0 up at half-time at Elland Road with Joel Piroe finding the net on four occasions and Junior Firpo also finding the net, before Willy Gnonto scored the sixth after the break.<\/p>\n
Burnley found things rather more difficult against Sheffield United but won the game courtesy of a brace from captain Josh Brownhill, who responded to critics of his side having ensured their return to the top flight at the first time of asking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m speechless. All that hard work this season,\u201d Brownhill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been written off so many times, people calling us boring. We\u2019ve bored our way to the Premier League.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes a whole team; it\u2019s not just a back four, a goal keeper, it takes everybody. I don\u2019t think a lot of the lads will sleep. I\u2019m so buzzing for the lads that haven\u2019t played Premier League football.\u201d<\/p>\n
With that victory, Burnley not only won promotion to the Premier League, but they have also now gone 31 regular-season Championship games unbeaten.<\/p>\n
If they avoid defeat in their final two, they will match the 33-match record set by Reading in 2005-06.<\/p>\n
While watching the later game unfolding at Turf Moor on TV, Leeds boss Daniel Farke promised he would be \u201cfirst on the table\u201d if Burnley did his side a favour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI normally celebrate with cake and coffee on the sofa because I\u2019m at an age where I\u2019m pretty tired after a game,\u201d said Farke.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was younger, as a player I was able to celebrate a proper win.\u00a0\u201cNow I\u2019m just happy when I don\u2019t have to speak at all and I can watch a little golf on the sofa.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is really something to celebrate, believe me I will be a fire beast and it won\u2019t be cheesecake and coffee, there will be some other drinks.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally I like to speak about the next training session and be disicplined but believe me, I will be the first on the table, you can be sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
With both Leeds and Burnley now on 94 points, the two promoted sides will battle for the Championship title in their remaining two games of the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds battered Stoke City 6-0 but had to wait for Burnley\u2019s 2-1 win over third-placed Sheffield United to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,9029,393,163,4884,1860,2922,12,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-39183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-burnley","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-leeds-united","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114377770119570400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}