The thrilling race for promotion to the English Premier League has taken another turn, with Leeds United moving second in the Championship after a roller-coaster win at Middlesbrough.
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Boro's Socceroos winger Sammy Silvera played the majority of a high-octane affair, in which five goals were scored in the first half before Leeds ran out 4-3 winners.
His Australia teammates Riley McGree (foot) and Tom Glover (finger) missed out with injury.
Middlesbrough took the lead through Isaiah Jones seven minutes in, but the visitors soon hit back with goals from Crysencio Summerville and Patrick Bamford in the space of 11 minutes.
There was no time to draw breath, as Emmanuel Latte Lath levelled on the 30 minute mark before Wilfried Gnonto restored Leeds' advantage shortly before halftime.
Summerville grabbed his second to extend that lead midway through the second half before Latte Lath's 87th-minute header threatened a late comeback.
But Leeds held on to leapfrog Ipswich into second place with two games of the regular season to go, albeit having played a match more than the Suffolk club.
Both clubs are guaranteed to at least be in the play-offs to determine the third team promoted to England's top flight, although they will be keen to secure one of the two automatic promotion places.
"(It was) a great piece of football from two good sides who really went for it to win this game," Leeds boss Daniel Farke said.
"To show such a reaction in the first half to come back to create so many chances, to score fantastic goals, was great for us.
"Compliments to Middlesbrough, they showed a fantastic performance.
"We needed to show some steel and resilience in the last minutes to dig in and grind out this important result for us and we did."
Australian Associated Press
