How has Leeds being most ill-disciplined in Championship affected results?

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Gaetano Berardi was sent off during the defeat to Cardiff – Leeds’ ninth red card in all competitions already this season.

Thomas Christiansen leaves the field during the Sky Bet Championship match between Ipswich Town and Leeds United.

Leeds United lost 4-1 at home to Cardiff City in the Championship in a result that cost Thomas Christiansen his job as head coach.

It was the latest in a poor run of fixtures that has seen the Whites fail to win in seven matches in all competitions with them now seven points off the playoffs.

Dejected Leeds United player Liam Cooper reacts after The Emirates FA Cup Third Round match against Newport County.

Yet perhaps one of the most worrying statistics is that Leeds are the most ill-disciplined team in the second tier of English football, with Gaetano Berardi’s red card against the Bluebirds their seventh in the league already this season.

That is more than double the amount of dismissals than any other team in the division bar Sheffield Wednesday (five), Millwall and QPR (both four).

Gaetano Berardi of Leeds United (C) is restrained by teammates after a clash with Matt Taylor of Bristol City resulting in a red card for both.

In the matches that the Yorkshire outfit have seen red, they have gone on to lose five of them, drawn one and won one – which was at Bristol City when the hosts also had a player sent off at the same time.

Including the cups it is now nine red cards for Leeds in 2017/18, with them going out of the FA Cup to League Two’s Newport County after going down to ten men, and clearly this lack of discipline is starting to cost them dear.