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Leeds United grabbed their second late winner in the space of four days to extend their winning run to four in a row after beating Reading at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday evening.
Of course, this led to a number of supporters claiming that this was the stuff of champions and that this is how teams get promoted.
While the extra four points they’ve picked up in the final minutes of their last two games will help their cause, United supporters shouldn’t be so blindly optimistic after what were actually two sub-par performances.
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The thing is, we’ve seen this all before. Last year Leeds were snatching wins at the death to keep them at the top of the league. Games against Aston Villa and Blackburn will live long in the memory, but rather than those victories being the hallmark of a team destined for promotion, they were a telling sign that Leeds’ performances were dropping off.
We don’t need to tell you what eventually happened last season, but this trend of relying on late winners should be setting alarm bells ringing rather than being something to celebrate.
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If we were in the back end of the season and these results were being ground out then it’d be time to celebrate, but snatching wins against struggling sides such as Luton and Reading at this stage of the season is seemingly just symptomatic of poor performances that United have got away with.
Leeds haven’t been anywhere near their best in their last two games, and if they continue like that when they come up against another team challenging for promotion they could very easily be punished.
There’s no doubting that these six points could be valuable come the end of the season, but in all honesty, it won’t matter if Leeds continue to look as turgid as they did on Tuesday evening.
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