{"id":47713,"date":"2025-05-04T01:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47713"},"modified":"2025-05-04T01:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:59:53","slug":"leeds-win-championship-title-on-goal-difference-luton-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/leeds-win-championship-title-on-goal-difference-luton-relegated\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Win Championship Title on Goal Difference, Luton Relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United edged out Burnley to win the second-tier Championship title on goal difference after both teams finished the season with 100 points as Luton Town suffered a second straight relegation on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On a frantic final day, Daniel Farke&#8217;s Leeds trailed at Plymouth Argyle early in the game through a Sam Byram own goal but Wilfried Gnonto levelled eight minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>With Burnley leading Millwall, Leeds desperately needed a winner and it was Tottenham Hotspur loanee Manor Solomon who popped up with a goal in added time to give Leeds a 2-1 victory that also relegated Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley beat Millwall 3-1 but lost out on the title due to Leeds&#8217; superior goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t put into words what I&#8217;m feeling right now. It is a dream come true to score the winning goal and take this Championship,&#8221; Solomon told BBC Radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the season we&#8217;ve shown we deserve this trophy and to finish in the first spot&#8230; We all knew what was happening at Burnley and we knew we needed to score. It paid off and the ball went into the net.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United edged out Burnley to win the second-tier Championship title on goal difference after both teams finished the season with 100 points as Luton Town suffered a second straight relegation on Saturday. On a frantic final day, Daniel Farke&#8217;s Leeds trailed at Plymouth Argyle early in the game through a Sam Byram own goal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47714,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions\/47714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}