David Prutton: One new face in the January window could galvanise Leeds United

You can also look at what’s happened with Bristol City over the last couple games and it just shows you that nothing is necessarily guaranteed.

We looked ahead to those games at Birmingham and at home to Forest and they weren’t necessarily shoo-ins.

But you thought they were about as close to shoo-ins as you are going to get in the Championship, especially with the form that Leeds were in going into those games.

We have seen Birmingham really struggle this season. They have struggled to score goals and they have struggled to defend.

If you were looking to play a team that was underperforming and lacking confidence then they would have been the ones that you would have been hanging your hat on.

Leeds quite obviously would have expected more from those two games than a point but you come up against a Forest side without a manager and it’s a slightly different proposition.

It just goes to show how unpredictable the league is.

If you are being pessimistic about it then you could say that these dropped points could be the difference come May because you look at what happened at the tail end of last season when it was very, very close. It became ridiculously close towards the end and that’s something that you would think Leeds would be very, very wary of with regards to dropping points against teams that, in theory, in the form that they are in, they should be beating.

It’s damaging in the sense that it’s a disappointing end to what has been a really good run of games.

But you’d like to think that having been through what they have been through that they’d have enough perspective and pragmitism to be able to deal with it. The January transfer window is obviously now open and I think Leeds need to go and get another striker and perhaps someone who is slightly different.

Leeds have had a nice spread of goals around the team but it would be good for them to have someone that can share the burden going forward.