Leeds bounced back from their Wembley disappointment by beating already-relegated Burnley 3-1 at Elland Road to take another giant step towards Premier League safety.<\/p>\n
Daniel Farke’s side, who lost 1-0 in the FA Cup semi-final to Chelsea last Sunday, took an early lead through Anton Stach\u2019s superb long-range strike before second-half efforts from Noah Okafor and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.<\/p>\n
Loum Tchaouna pulled one back for Burnley in the 71st minute but the managerless visitors, who parted company with Scott Parker by mutual consent on Thursday, slipped to a fifth straight league defeat.<\/p>\n
Leeds\u2019 third win in four league matches lifted them up to 14th in the table, nine points clear of the bottom three, with their relegation rivals all in action later this weekend.<\/p>\n
Leeds\u2019 former owner Andrea Radrizzani was watching from the stands and he did not have long to wait before cheering their opening goal.<\/p>\n
Jaka Bijol rolled the ball to Stach in a central position 30 yards from goal in the eighth minute and the Germany midfielder arrowed a brilliant low shot inside Burnley goalkeeper Martin Dubravka\u2019s left-hand post for his fifth league goal of the season.<\/p>\n
The early strike settled Leeds and they pinned Burnley in their own half in pursuit of a second goal.<\/p>\n
Stach, back in the starting line-up after a four-game absence due to an ankle injury, was wayward with a free-kick from similar distance soon after and Ao Tanaka also fired over the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Burnley\u2019s relegation was confirmed after last week\u2019s 1-0 home defeat to Manchester City and to their credit they maintained their composure under periods of heavy pressure, defending resolutely before half-time.<\/p>\n
James Ward-Prowse\u2019s deflected shot was easily gathered by Leeds goalkeeper Karl Darlow at the start of the second period before the home side struck twice in four minutes to kill the game.<\/p>\n
A sweeping move down the right involving Calvert-Lewin and Jayden Bogle saw the latter cross for Okafor to volley into the far corner for Leeds\u2019 second in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n
It was the Switzerland winger\u2019s eighth league goal of the season and his fourth in as many league matches.<\/p>\n
Tanaka\u2019s 20-yard shot was then parried by Dubravka and Calvert-Lewin pounced to stab home their third in the 56th \u2013 his 12th league effort of the season.<\/p>\n
Calvert-Lewin\u2019s effort prompted chants of ‘We are staying up\u2019 and \u2018United are back\u2019 from Leeds fans before Burnley responded through Tchaouna in the 71st minute to cut the deficit.<\/p>\n
The French forward raced on to former Leeds winger Jaidon Anthony\u2019s superb through-ball and got the better of Pascal Struijk before firing into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Tchaouna\u2019s goal lifted the Clarets, but Farke sent on substitutes Sean Longstaff and Brenden Aaronson to help steady the ship and they comfortably navigated eight minutes of stoppage time to extend their unbeaten league run to six matches.<\/p>\n
Watch Lyon v Arsenal in the UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-finals on Saturday from 1.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds bounced back from their Wembley disappointment by beating already-relegated Burnley 3-1 at Elland Road to take another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-427815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}