Bamford heads Leeds closer to top of table
Leeds 1 Norwich 0
Leeds climbed to within two points of the Championship's automatic-promotion places with a 1-0 win against Norwich at Elland Road last night.
Patrick Bamford scored the game's solitary goal with a thumping first-half header and that was enough to seal a fifth straight win in all competitions and keep the pressure on their promotion rivals.
Norwich were not without their chances — Gabriel Sara's first-half effort was the best of them — but they slipped to their first defeat in six games and failed to climb into the play-off places.
In a fixture brought forward because both sides are in FA Cup action this weekend, there was little to excite the crowd in the opening quarter of an hour.
But Bamford changed that in the 16th minute after a concerted spell of home pressure as his fourth goal in five games put Leeds ahead.
Georginio Rutter and Daniel James combined on the edge of the box and the latter provided a pin-point assist to the far post where Bamford expertly headed back across a flat-footed Angus Gunn and into the far corner.
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