Exclusive:Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna makes Leeds Joined guarantee subsequent to losing on Saturday evening

Leeds United enjoyed an excellent weekend after picking up three points at Bristol City on Friday night, before watching Ipswich Town lose at Preston – and Kieran McKenna has discussed the race.

Leicester’s stunning 5-0 win at Stoke sees them retain their place at the top of the table and remind any doubters that they are the team to beat – and look set to go on and win the division by some margin.

Willy Gnonto’s second goal of the season saw Leeds win at Bristol City the night before, putting the pressure on both Southampton and Ipswich to match our result and not lose any ground in the race.

Southampton’s superb form continued, easily winning 2-0 at Rotherham. Ipswich, though, have found that their form is deteriorating in recent weeks. An FA Cup defeat to Maidstone at home, a sign of that.

Their form is incredible and right now, are likely to be the favourites from Leeds, themselves and Ipswich to finish second. But anything can happen in the Championship. Leeds host the Saints on the final day.

There is likely to be plenty of twists and turns, but McKenna needs to pick his Ipswich players up off the deck if they are to compete for the top two. He described Leeds as “fantastic”, and in incredible form

Look, there’s 46 games,” McKenna said on Saturday, as quoted by Leeds Live. “That’s only the fourth game we’ve lost in the league this year. A fantastic effort. We know it’s not all going to be sunny days.

“There are teams around us with fantastic squads in incredible form and if we use up any of our energy focusing on them we won’t have the required energy to be competitive every week,” McKenna claimed.