Championship round-up: Leeds the big winners promotion pack all fail to win

Leeds United moved up to fourth place in the Championship and within two points of second-placed Cardiff after a remarkable 3-2 away win at Burnley.

Simon Grayson’s in-form side are now unbeaten in eight games and after coming back from 2-0 down at half-time recorded another impressive result thanks to goals from Max Gradel, Luciano Becchio and Jonny Howson.

Above them QPR and Cardiff both suffered defeats while Swansea failed to take advantage as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Millwall.

QPR went down 3-1 to Watford and Cardiff lost out to struggling Middlesbrough 1-0 thanks to a Julio Arca penalty.

Elsewhere in the play-off shake-up Derby lost 2-0 at Bristol City, Norwich lost to Portsmouth by the same scoreline and Coventry played out a goalless draw with Reading.

Ipswich suffered their sixth straight defeat as bottom side Preston nicked a 1-0 win. After going a goal down to Doncaster Leicester recovered to win 5-1 and move into 13th place, just five points outside the playoffs, while Sheffield United continued to teeter on the brink of the drop-zone after a 1-0 loss to Barnsley in a Yorkshire derby.