Leeds United 0-1 Southampton: Armstrong winner seals play-off glory and PL return for the Saints

Leeds United suffered more play-off heartache as Adam Armstrong netted the vital winner for Southampton as they sealed promotion back to the Premier League.

had won their previous two Championship matches with their fellow play-off finalists and Armstrong had been on target on both occasions.

Southampton are promoted to the Premier League

History repeated itself at Wembley, with Armstrong doing well to find the bottom corner midway through the first half to net his 24th goal of the campaign and it proved enough to send Russell Martin’s side back into the top flight at the first attempt.

It means , who went close late on when substitute Dan James hit the crossbar, suffered more play-off pain with this a sixth consecutive time they have failed to go up via tha…