Leeds United are favourites to win Premier League promotion.
Kalvin Phillips has urged his Leeds United team-mates not to waste their chances of Premier League promotion this season.
Marcelo Bielsa’s were among the pre-season favourites for automatic promotion and four wins in their first six Championship games demonstrates why.
Redemption is on the agenda for Leeds after the Whites’ end-of-season capitulation last term resulted in them dropping out of the top two with a few weeks left and settling for a playoff spot, with Derby County beating them in the semi-final.
It’s still very early, but United look good in their bid to improve on that third-place finish from May.
And Phillips, who signed a new five-year contract today, says that Leeds have the players and manager to do just that.
He told LUTV: “This season we’ve got to be back in the Premier League. The team that we’ve got and the manager we’ve got would be wasted if we fail. It’d be a big opportunity wasted if we don’t [win promotion].
“The main aim is to push and push and push. We came so close last season, which has kind of done the team good because we know what it takes.”
Leeds, who have conceded three times and scored seven in the league, are third in the Championship after losing at home to Swansea City prior to the international break.
Bielsa’s side visit Barnsley this weekend.
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