With Leeds United already confirming one huge bit of speculation this summer and stating categorically that manager Marcelo Bielsa will remain with us for the coming Championship campaign of 2019/20, plenty of fans are optimistic that we can build on our progress last term and go one better.
Whether that’s the second tier title itself, automatic promotion or Wembley Play-Off success is open for debate, but everyone shares the same hopes.
Sky Sports pundit David Prutton was quoted over the weekend by the Yorkshire Evening Post and with him being Sky’s Championship expert, he believed that we were already in pole position to go one further next year and he felt that with our style of play under Bielsa we’d already shown we have ‘nothing to fear’ from the sides in the division.
“It will be another tough ask, regardless of how well they have done this season. You have got teams that are coming up in Luton, Barnsley and Charlton that will have momentum and a real confidence about them and then you have got the teams who have come down in Fulham, Cardiff and Huddersfield. For Leeds, there’s nothing in that division to be fearful about though we all know that it is such a competitive division. The reason Leeds are favourites is because of how well they did last year but I think the thing they have got to be wary of is that last season they were a surprise package and while I’m not saying people will have now worked them out, they might know what’s coming and forewarned is forearmed so it will be an even bigger ask to make sure they go up in an automatic spot. But with Bielsa in charge, you get the feeling that he is as good as anyone around and that he can take them up.”
We certainly have nothing to fear and after the first few weeks of the campaign I’d argue we weren’t a surprise package, so I discount that one. The biggest question is can we be more clinical next season, as ultimately that was what cost us.
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