Coventry 0 – 2 Leeds

Leeds moved five points clear at the top of the championship as they beat Coventry 2-0.

Joel Piroe and Jayden Bogle did the damage in the first half to secure the three points at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Wednesday night.

This means that Leeds is now five points ahead of both Burnley and Sheffield United, though the latter has a game in his hand over the weekend when Daniel Fark’s page is in the FA Cup action.

Coventry had the chance to get it for five wins in a row and move level with pages in play-off sites, but instead Frank Lampard’s page 11th, three points from the top six.

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Leeds drove into a two-goal lead at half-time without hardly having to break a sweat. The first came after Ellis Simms’ Stray Pass found its way to Manor Solomon, who then held Piroe up to push his 13th season back the net.

The other was helped by another mistake, but it came after fine work from Bogle. Right-back ran from deep into the Coventry box before being gifted the ball back via Oliver Dovin’s waste and he took the gift in the end.

Both sides had chances in the second half, but goalies came out on top. At one end, Dovin made some fine savings to refuse Piroe, Solomon and Largie Ramazani.

While he was on the other Illan Meslier, who has had some critics this season, made two sensational rescues. The first was particularly brilliant when he came down to the left to refuse Ellis Simms.

The leaders

Coventry’s Frank Lampard:

“They deserved to win the game, and sometimes you have to accept it, they are the top of the league for a reason.

“We shouldn’t be too negative for it because we’ve been on a good race, but today showed a bit of another level.

“We knew we got into a hard game today you want to win but Leeds are in a good moment and there will be things we can do better with certainty. A game we have to take on The chin.

“They are a great team, lots of talent, lots of speed, Premier League experience, and I’m really impressed with them. Sometimes you have to praise a team that comes here and plays well.”

Leeds’ Daniel Farke:

“Satisfied with many details. Also with the three points, also with a fifth clean sheet of sheet in a row, but also we have to talk about how we were wasted by using the chances.

“We have to be much more effective when playing such a strong home ground you can’t waste too many chances. I want to be respectful, the 2-0 win is great.

“I’m a little critical of our groundbreaking because we missed too many one-on-them. Against a good side it can be expensive.

“This was a top-class performance from my boys, so compliments for it. We were far away from a perfect performance. I can’t be too warm but far from perfect.”