Leeds United are making strides towards the top of the Championship but they now need to find consistency in results
A corner has been turned at Leeds United over the last few weeks, it’s fair to say. After a testing few months, Whites supporters are rightly starting to look up and as Daniel Farke’s side find their rhythm, optimism is beginning to flow freely through Elland Road for the first real time since the days of Marcelo Bielsa.
Few will spend much time looking back at the draws against Cardiff City and West Bromwich Albion or, indeed, Leeds’ short and not particularly sweet Carabao Cup campaign, as a depleted Whites squad coughed and spluttered into life. To his credit, though, Farke was always confident that things would start to turn around once the club had made the necessary additions and he wasn’t wrong.
Leeds cruised to victory in the end, making one of the Championship’s more expensively assembled outfits look hopelessly out of their depth. Contrast that performance with those over the first two or three weeks of the campaign and the strides forward Leeds have made in such a small amount of time look plentiful.
Their three league wins have all been followed by frustrating draws, and that’s a trend they’ll be desperate to buck this weekend as they travel to face a Southampton side who have lost their last four fixtures in the second tier. Consistency seems to be the only difference between Leeds and the runaway leaders in the Championship right now.
They have the chance to show the first real signs of it this weekend at St Mary’s Stadium with the challenge then being backing up against QPR in midweek at Elland Road and against Bristol City a few days later. The next week and a half isn’t just a chance to pick up nine points, it’s a chance to assert dominance, underline their contender status and potentially close the gap between themselves and the automatic promotion spots.
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