Hello, my dear readers! I have prepared new Leeds story post for you that promises to be captivating.

Matches and results

We'll start with Premier League table before the final quarter of fixture in this season:

As far as you see Leeds is about to get to Europe League. But there is a strong competition between my club and Tottenham with Aston Villa. They are very strong competitors, believe me. Seems like pretty complicated finish awaits me this season. By the way the 4th Champions League position is also can be taken by Leeds. I feel I have some chances to make kind of surprise making a final spurt during last season fixtures. Why do I have this feeling? There are two points:

- positive mood after my last match: fantastic victory over Chelsea with 3:0 score

- the squad started to play better together, they understand one another very well now.

And here are the last matches played by guys:

In this list you can find excellent 5:1 win over Wigan, strange failure 0:3 with West Ham and absolutely disappointing 1:0 victory over Everton that didn't allow to go through to League Cup final (because of 1:3 loss in the first match). But none of them is near the following two truly emotional games…

Worst game – stunned by Newcastle

My god… It was that kind of unlucky matches when I have more clear cut chances but loose nevertheless. And it's absolutely terrible to concede 4 goals from 6 shots on target… It's hard to explain how that failure happened. All negative factors were combined together and it's resulted in several stupid mistakes by Enyeama and defenders. But looking into the match stats you see that it was equal game, not less.

Best game – famous victory over rival Chelsea

After the defeat from Newcastle I was somewhat angry and embarrassed. I didn't feel confident before the next very important match against Chelsea. And this is the reason why I decided to use counter-attacking tactics for home match…

Counter-attacks made the result! 3:0 in game with Champions League winner of the previous season!!!!!

Leeds leaders proved their top class quality in this game. Especially it was marvellous performance from Andre-Pierre Gignac!

Interesting fact that usage of counter attacks allowed to have really perceptible advantage over the Blues. Just look at the stats below:

8 shorts on target from our side against only 3 from Chelsea players. The game recollections are still vivid. I remember Chelsea had only one dangerous moment near Leeds goal line. Fantastic performance by the whole team!

Leeds players

And here are my guys and their current stats:

The best Leeds player of the last period is certainly Andre-Pierre Gignac. 25 goals in 25 matches! It's the most efficient forward that I had in Football Manager 2010, 2009 and 2008 taken together!

Another main Leeds forward Marquinhos is not so cool. Seems like he is much better in ball control, dribbling and creative passes than in goal scoring with his 6 goals.

The most weak position is AMR currently. Padalino and Matthews with average ratings below 6.60 doesn't correspond to the level of our club at the moment. Therefore I try often to use my wonderkid Marco Verrattti at AMR position.

Things you asked me to post

You asked me to report few things from my game and I'm glad to do it for you. And we start with players wages of Leeds United.

Leeds players wages

Manchester City squad screen

Here are Premier League title winners of the two last seasons:

I dream to buy Micah Richards to Leeds someday…

And last but not least it's necessary to announce that friendly site to my blog - FM Discussion – has been reopened.

PS I want to congratulate every Inter fan with their great victory in Champions League. Diego Milito is the best forward of the tournament!

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