Does Pontus Jansson need to improve for Leeds United? One of their former managers thinks so.
Neil Redfearn has told Radio Yorkshire that Leeds United’s Pontus Jansson needs to improve.
The centre-back was one of Leeds’ best players last season but the big Swede has looked rather suspect over the past couple of weeks.
The Whites went into the international break with back-to-back defeats by Cardiff City and Sheffield Wednesday in which they shipped three goals in both games.
Jansson started and finished both games but he had a different partner on each occasion. Captain Liam Cooper was sent off at 2-0 down in Cardiff, while Matthew Pennington replaced him for the 3-0 demolition at Hillsborough.
And Redfearn claims that Wednesday striker Steven Fletcher was licking his lips at the prospect of facing 22-year-old Pennington, whilst highlighting Jansson’s form.
He told Radio Yorkshire: “I looked at Fletcher and he was rubbing his hands because he had a young lad at centre-half.”
“And he’d got Jansson who, for whatever reason, it hasn’t quite happened for in the last couple of games.”
Head coach Thomas Christiansen will hope that the former Torino and Malmo man is at his best when Leeds host Reading at Elland Road on Saturday.
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