Leeds United have just discovered who their real enemy is in this Championship title push
There is only one remaining enemy for Leeds this season
The Championship is a conniving beast. One can be certain of nothing in England’s second tier. Cast your eye back to the end of 2023, when Leeds United were 17 points behind Leicester City and staring down an inevitable play-off finish.
A 15-match unbeaten streak turned the tables on everything we knew in last season’s division. Nothing, it seems, is ever off the cards. However, that was a Leeds team which was dripping in Premier League quality, regardless of how far they had fallen off the pace by the turn of the year.
It was a team which always had the base ability to put together a run like that. Can the same be said for this season? Of the teams in the bottom half of the current table, Coventry City and Luton Town are the only outfits which jump out as surprises based on pre-season predictions.
Neither of them has the personnel to match United’s of 23/24, but, broadly speaking, they have the staff and players capable of marching back up the table in a meaningful way if they can address the evident problems they have had. This is a long-winded way of saying Leeds might just be too much for this league and we already know it.
The point is, the current bottom half of the table can be virtually discounted as threats to United. Coventry and Luton, for those aforementioned reasons, might have the ability to push for the top six by next May, but matching Leeds seems fanciful.
The Sky Blues have, of course, been sampled and they were alarmingly ordinary compared to what we saw in April. Then you look at the top half and see Middlesbrough as a side backed to be a promotion contender this term.
