Leeds must find positives to overcome Norwich hurdle

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The Yorkshire Evening Post’s Lee Sobot and Daniel Wales, discuss how Leeds can rediscover form to overcome Norwich City in the play-offs.

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00:00 a trip to Power Road very shortly to face Norwich side who they've had a decent enough

00:08 season it's always decent if you're making the playoffs from their point of view but

00:13 given Leeds as we've mentioned there Lee it's not going to be an easy test.

00:17 Absolutely not.

00:18 So as I say I'm myself trying to find some positives here but I'm struggling to be honest

00:23 because as you say the attack's not really at their free-flowing best and obviously the

00:27 defence are leaving gaps making mistakes and even the field's not really helping out either

00:31 side to be honest so what can Daniel Tharker do in this first away leg to try and make

00:38 sure that Leeds are at least solid at the back and can nick a goal going forward?

00:42 Yeah well I'll give you some positives which is the fact that Leeds beat them home and

00:45 away so that's the first thing you can say about it which you can't be said for anybody

00:48 else who's in the playoffs obviously Southampton done the double over Leeds, West Brom took

00:52 four points against Leeds so in terms of the results against the sides that are in the

00:55 playoffs if you want to pick one based on that you'd pick Norwich.

00:58 That said both games are very, very close it was a 3-2 win I think it was back in October

01:03 Crisensio-Somerville so very close game there and Norwich they gained plenty of plaudits

01:08 remember that game at Ellen Road the 1-0 win from the Bamford strike I think it was in

01:12 the second half they had like a spell of possession they just really forced Leeds back and stuff

01:15 and I remember after that game a lot of people sort of said they looked like they were getting

01:19 a lot better except they've obviously risen right at the table to even get into the playoffs

01:23 really and I think a lot of people were saying after that game myself included you know that

01:27 you wouldn't necessarily want to face them in the playoffs but I mean whoever you're

01:31 going to get in the playoffs is going to be a reasonably good side in such a strong division

01:34 so yeah you look at those two games that Leeds have won against them I think me myself when

01:39 I'm you sort of starting to think about this could be the playoffs I've got to be honest

01:43 I sort of said you know out of the teams in there I wouldn't mind out of the ones facing

01:48 Norwich because of the fact you know you sort of you know you gain confidence if you like

01:53 from the fact they've beaten them home and away but that's the Leeds United Leeds at

01:55 the best you know and this isn't Leeds at the best at the moment so it's a totally different

01:59 ball game you look at the table 17 points difference between the two teams that's a

02:03 lot you know it's like that's you know obviously five wins and two draws that's an awful lot

02:07 of difference but it doesn't feel like there's 17 points between these two teams at the moment

02:11 I mean we might find out otherwise at the weekend but I suspect it'll be a very very

02:15 hard game particularly away from home at Carrow Road they've got the fourth best division

02:20 record home record in the division and to be quite honest as much as you'd want to go

02:24 there and get a win you know and like you know nick something like a 1-0 win or you

02:28 know take an advantage back to Welland Road I think first and foremost and this might

02:31 sound a bit defeatist but I think first and foremost you've just got to stay in the game

02:34 and stay in the tie you know the last thing you want to be doing is going there and going

02:38 1-0 down after 10 or 15 minutes and all of a sudden you 2-0 down at half time and then

02:42 it's an absolute mountainous task you know go there be solid sort the defence out you

02:46 know obviously there won't be as risky as we were against Southampton because Daniel

02:49 Farquhar will know what he's doing it's a two-legged tie and stuff and hopefully then

02:53 you know if Leeds can be solid at the back the attacking prowess will shine through.

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