'Everyone who saw' - Leeds United star takes swipe at Burnley with 'big team' Cardiff City warning

Junior Firpo has declared his ‘better team’ belief regarding a Leeds United promotion rival and declared a Whites must in Saturday’s clash at Cardiff City.

Leeds are heading for Saturday afternoon’s Championship clash at Cardiff following a first defeat of the season in last weekend’s hosting of Burnley who left Elland Road with a 1-0 success thanks to Luca Koleosho’s first half winner.

Firpo, though, believes “everyone” could see that a dominant Leeds were the better team and insists the mood in camp has not been heavily dented ahead of the weekend’s trip to bottom-of-the-table Cardiff.

Speaking to LUTV, Firpo declared: "Obviously I think the manager says a lot of times, you don't get too happy when you win games, you don't get too nervous or too sad when you lose games.

"We know it was an important game against a direct rival I think for promotion but I think everyone who saw the game saw that we were the better team, we were dominant through the whole game but we didn't take our chances and they took their only one basically that they had.

"That's football sometimes, it's sad, but we just have to bounce back and try to win the next three points." 

Looking ahead to what he expected at Cardiff, Firpo warned that the Bluebirds would be a bigger threat than their league position implies and declared that a good start for Leeds would be key.

"I expect a pretty tight game, a difficult game,” said the Whites left back. "I think we have to start really well because they will probably want to start quick and fast in the game and they will come with everything because it's a team under pressure and when a team is under pressure it’s quite risky because you never know what is going to happen.

“Obviously they will play with a lot of rhythm so I think we just have to start really focused, try to do what we always do, be good in possession. don't lose too many balls, because if not they will grow into the game and they will  be dangerous in the counter attack for sure.

"Obviously they didn't start pretty good this season but it's a big team with good history in English football so for sure it's not going to be an easy game."