Why do Leeds keep conceding the first goal away from home?

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00:00Talk about scoring that first goal, let's look at Leeds' away games. So Preston at the

00:09weekend, Preston scored the first goal. Blackburn, obviously Blackburn scored the first and only

00:14goal of that game. Swansea, they got the first goal. And again, it was an early one. Leeds

00:19maybe not being ready. Again, I know that that game panned out quite all right in the

00:23end, but still. Millwall, they got the first goal in the first half. Sunderland, again,

00:29early goal. Chris Rigg, ninth minute, Sunderland opened the scoring. Norwich, 1-1, Sargent's

00:35penalty on 15 minutes opened the scoring there. Looking at those results, especially the more

00:43recent ones, it's like three and four and five in succession that Leeds have gone away

00:46from home and conceded the first goal. They've given themselves a mountain to climb unnecessarily

00:52each time. And you know what? You can look at it two ways. Again, that would be the glass

00:57half empty view. The other way could be, well, they came from behind to win against

01:01Swansea. Yes, very well. They ultimately got something at Preston, but when you concede

01:06the first goal, there will be games like that Millwall match in the Blackburn game where

01:10you don't get back into it.

01:12What makes it so annoying and so incongruous is that they're so good at home. They're such

01:17a good team at Elland Road. They don't tend to make sloppy mistakes at Elland Road. They

01:24control teams just with an iron grip almost from the very start. They're not conceding

01:32goals at Elland Road. So what's the big difference? Is it a mentality thing? Is it simply a tiredness

01:41thing? Is it an energy thing because they're not at home because they've had to travel

01:45because it's an early kickoff, too many games in too few days? It's the main area of concern

01:52for this team because at Elland Road, there are no concerns about what will happen at

01:55Elland Road this season. They will win a lot of games at Elland Road this season. That's

01:59what's going to keep them right up there and make them automatic promotion contenders or

02:03potentially favourites, whichever way you look at it. But away from home, it's a very

02:08different Leeds.