Clarke earns Ipswich point at Southampton to set up final-day promotion shootout

The Championship’s automatic promotion race will be decided on Saturday. Ipswich’s hopes of killing Millwall’s and Middlesbrough’s chances stone dead were dashed at St Mary’s though this pulsating draw also did for Southampton.

A second half of bedlam had Cyle Larin score a goal that looked to have dashed Kieran McKenna’s hopes of completing the job before the weekend. Jack Clarke’s lashing finish from the edge of the Southampton box meant Saints must regroup for the playoffs. Clarke rattled a post in the chase for the goal that would all but elevate Ipswich. Instead, QPR, at Portman Road, will decide Ipswich’s destiny. How much more tension can they stand?