Former Leeds United boss Neil Redfearn is worried that other teams in the Champinship believe the Whites have a softness about them this season.
Leeds’ poor run of form continued at home last weekend when they lost to Reading to mark their third consecutive defeat in the Championship.
Thomas Christiansen’s men have lost four of their last five league games and have tumbled down to sixth in the league table after leading the standings for a few weeks at the start of the season.
Leeds have struggled to cope with more physical teams in the Championship this season and Redfearn feels while the ideal of playing good football is nice, the Whites are developing the image of being a team with a soft centre.
He feels Championship teams have been deliberately getting in Leeds’ faces over recent games as they are aware the Whites are struggling to cope in a more physical battle.
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Redfearn explained on Radio Yorkshire: “The Utopia for me is playing unbelievable passing football – get it down, play through the thirds and out-football people, score at the other end and get a clean sheet.
“That’s the Utopia, but Brian Clough used to say it’s good until they turn up.
"They have watched Leeds and everybody turns up, front pressed Leeds and been physical with them.
“They have watched them and they have basically said, ‘you stand off Leeds and let them play they will murder you but you get into them, they are soft’.
“There is softness about them and that’s really obvious for me.”
Leeds will be on the road again this weekend when they take on Bristol City, who have not lost a game at home this season.
