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Leeds United are once again right up there in the Championship this season.
The Whites are currently second in the league, but it’s fair to say that their current position doesn’t represent how well they’ve been playing, and that’s down to one key thing.
Last season
If you feel like you’ve read this before it’s because you probably have.
Leeds were let down massively by their finishing last term. Despite finishing third in 2018/19, the Whites actually had the worst conversion rate in the entire division.
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If they could’ve been more effective in front of goal they probably would have been promoted, but it wasn’t to be for the Whites.
You’d have thought that the Yorkshire outfit would have done everything possible to remedy that situation this term, but those issues are once again causing problems.
This season
Leeds are once again in and around the automatic promotion places this campaign, but the Championship expected goals table shows that they should be running away with the league.
The table reckons that the Whites should have scored 7.9 more goals than they actually have – the highest differential between xGS and actual goals scored in the entire division.
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It also indicates that Marcelo Bielsa’s side should have an eight-point lead at this stage of the campaign. Eight points. That paints a damning picture of just how bad they’ve been at taking their chances.
This goes to show how imperative it is for Leeds to either find a goalscorer, whether that means dipping into the transfer window, giving Eddie Nketiah a proper chance or awakening something within Patrick Bamford.
If only there was a striker already at Elland Road who has scored goals at an impressive rate wherever they’ve played, perhaps someone who has recently scored hat-trick at international U21 level, or maybe a player who’s netted at a rate of a goal every 103.5 minutes in the league so far this season.
Step forward Nketiah.