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After defeating Bristol City 1-0 at Ashton Gate, Leeds United advanced into the Championship’s automatic promotion spots. Head coach Daniel Farke praised the team’s performance, calling it “almost perfect away.”

With a 1-0 victory thanks to a goal from Wilfried Gnonto in the 48th minute, they are now one point ahead of third-placed Ipswich Town and nine behind the dominant Leicester City, even though the Blues still have two games remaining and the Foxes have one over Leeds.

The Italian winger raced on to a deflected long pass forward from Junior Firpo and beat goalkeeper Max O’Leary with a superb left-footed effort from ten yards.

Leeds’ tremendously good performance in a mostly one-sided match was simply what they deserved, since their hosts were out of sorts and could only muster a few openings.

Leeds outperformed their midtable rivals and could have won by a larger margin, but City was kept in the match by a combination of poor finishing and some excellent saves from Max O’Leary.

While Farke was pleased with his team’s performance overall, he acknowledges that they must play more viciously in front of goal if they hope to return to the Premier League.

“There ought to have been a larger winning margin. Farke remarked, “It was practically the ideal away performance.

“I have to chastise ourselves for not putting them away, even though we were so dominating and generated so many opportunities.

“We must be more clinical if we wish to celebrate in May.

“We weren’t getting the final throw over three yards when we were breaking in three-on-one situations.

“That needs to alter. However, I am quite pleased with the guys in every other way.”

After 66 minutes, City had a fantastic opportunity to tie the score when Anis Mehmeti, a replacement, sprinted onto a Tommy Conway ball. However, Illan Meslier saved his low effort on the second try.

However, O’Leary produced some excellent saves to deny Georginio Rutter, Patrick Bamford, and the energetic Crysencio Summerville on three separate occasions.

At times, the home team appeared to be lagging behind, but head coach Liam Manning was unconcerned.

First of all, I have to give Leeds credit for being the best team we have faced, but tonight we fell short of our potential.

We can do so much better, and that is why I am frustrated. After making mistakes, the players seemed to become more tense.

“Leeds was the greatest team we faced out of the top teams. They should be able to withstand a challenge to advancement.”