What Josuha Guilavogui said in Leeds United dressing room and Sheff Utd warning

Better performances on the road are essential for Leeds United to compete with the likes of Sheffield United and win promotion. That’s the view Josuha Guilavogui gave LeedsLive a few days before he delivered a stirring speech in the bowels of Swansea City’s stadium that drove a last-gasp 4-3 win.

The veteran has only been in the building for one month, but his immense experience has already seen him become a key voice in Daniel Farke’s dressing room. The manager pulled back the curtain on Sunday’s preparation and pointed to a stirring talk the 34-year-old gave pre-match.

A few days prior to the game, Guilavogui spoke with LeedsLive at Thorp Arch and referenced some of the topics Farke said he raised in Wales. Even though he has only been in England a short time, and hardly played, the Frenchman has a keen sense of what needs to improve, especially when the Blades are scoring two after 85 minutes to win at Bristol City.

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Asked about being that balanced voice in the dressing room when some of the younger players may get too high or too low with results, he said: “Even me, when I was younger, was the same.

“I was the same and we have to be like this because they are bringing something different. It is a big difference when you are playing football and you are a professional soccer player, this is the big difference.

“We have to understand that now is our job. Our job is not to play just good football and, at the end, have no points and say ‘Yeah, was a good game, but we lose.’

“We have to improve our game away because at home we are really, really strong. We are really dominant and even the teams coming to Elland Road, they are afraid of us, afraid of our fans.

“You can see, when we are coming in the flow, there is no chance at all. If we want to be champions or finish in the top two, we have to make good performance away.

“A team like Sheffield United, they are not better than us, but they manage to win. They won in Bristol and we only drew there.”

The Millwall loss stood out for Guilavogui too. Like Farke, he could see the only way the Lions were going to score was via a set-piece of some description. Those are the small details they need to improve on to avoid Wembley pain again.

“We have to improve and maybe us, as experienced players, [need] to give some advice,” he said. “The goal we conceded against Millwall: we knew there is the only chance they can score with the corner kick or free-kick.

“We lost at least one point there, but I'm really confident and we have a good coach, good staff and we are prepared. Also, the team, I was not here the last year, but I learned a lot with this dramatic loss in Wembley and you can feel that this season.”

He added: “In football it is always the same sentence: you learn more when you lose a game than when you are winning a game. We learned a lot with Millwall, but this team, this club learned a lot with the last year at Wembley.

“You know, at the end, maybe one point, two points, three points can make the difference. We have to go for it.”