Norwich City and Leeds United dominated this season's Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Championship Team of the Year, providing three players each.
Bielsa's Leeds, Norwich dominate PFA Championship Team of the Year
Norwich City and Leeds United dominated this season's Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Championship Team of the Year, providing three players each.
Leaders Norwich, who are all but guaranteed to seal automatic promotion to the Premier League, have Max Aarons and Jamal Lewis included.
Norwich striker Teemu Pukki, the league's top scorer with 28 Championship goals this season, is up front alongside Sheffield United's Billy Sharp and Tammy Abraham, who has hit 25 league goals for Aston Villa in his loan spell from Chelsea.
Sheffield United, second in the table and three points clear of Leeds with two games to go, also provide Oliver Norwood among the midfielders, while Villa playmaker Jack Grealish makes the cut.
Despite an untimely loss of form seeming set to land them in the play-offs, Leeds have defensive duo Liam Cooper and Pontus Jansson both in the side, along with Pablo Hernandez.
The only player named in the PFA's XI who does not feature for one of the Championship's top three or fifth-placed Villa is the goalkeeper, Darren Randolph, who plies his trade at play-off hopefuls Middlesbrough.
West Brom strike pair Jay Rodriguez and Dwight Gayle, who have scored 21 and 23 Championship goals respectively this season, are among the players to miss out.
There was also no place for Brentford's Neal Maupay, second behind Pukki in the scoring charts, or his teammate Said Benrahma, whose 14 Championship assists is a league-high.
Birmingham City's Che Adams was named on the three-man shortlist for Championship's Player of the Season award, which was won by Pukki, but he did not gain selection despite netting 22 league goals.
PFA Championship Team of the Year in full:
Goalkeeper: Darren Randolph (Middlesbrough)
Defenders: Max Aarons (Norwich), Liam Cooper (Leeds), Pontus Jansson (Leeds), Jamal Lewis (Norwich)
Midfielders: Pablo Hernandez (Leeds), Oliver Norwood (Sheffield United), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa)
Forwards: Teemu Pukki (Norwich), Tammy Abraham (Aston Villa), Billy Sharp (Sheffield United)
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