'I'd be silly' - Conor Coady assesses title race as Leicester City, Leeds United and Ipswich falter

The Championship's top three teams have started to buckle at the wrong time as we approach the crunch period in the title race. There are just three rounds of the season remaining and Leeds United's campaign is sitting on a knife-edge.

Daniel Farke's men have dropped out of the automatic promotion places after accruing just five points from a possible 15 since the international break. Are the Whites running out of steam heading down the final stretch?

Two points separate Ipswich Town, Leicester City and United, but Southampton have not given up hope of gate-crashing the top two. They are seven points outside the automatic promotion slots with two games in hand. Southampton host Preston North End this evening.

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Speaking on the latest episode of the BBC’s Monday Night Club, Foxes defender Conor Coady says it is only "natural" to keep a close on their promotion rivals results following the club's recent dip in form.

He said: “Chris [Sutton] will probably tell you from playing football, I love football so I look at results all the time. I can come in, whether I should or shouldn’t do it, I look at the results, of course I do, seeing how they get on and hoping they’ve lost so you gain a bit of ground or to bridge a gap. One hundred per cent it affects you, but over the last week we’ve spoken as a team of the results we have had at Leicester.

“We can’t concentrate on what anyone else is doing, it’s us and that’s it. That’s how you’ve got to be and that’s how we believe we have got to be because when you are in touching distance of what you worked all season for.

“But like I said, 100 per cent being human beings, I’d be silly if I sat here now and said I don’t look at other results.”