It is crunch time in the Sky Bet Championship and for Leeds United, they’ve hardly had a better chance of reaching the Premier League since their relegation in 2004.

Leeds reached the play-off final in 2006 and lost out to Watford, but the kind of chance that has presented itself is different, with the Whites in the driving seat and looking to secure one of the two automatic promotion places in the next three weeks.

Kevin Blackwell’s side bottled it in Cardiff in 2006, and the class of 2016/17 under Garry Monk should’ve at least secured a play-off place. But, you guessed it, Leeds bottled it during the final eight games of the season and missed out on the top-six.

This season under Marcelo Bielsa, Leeds are looking to shake off that tag that’s followed them for an unwanted length of time. There are four games of the season remaining and promotion is in Leeds’ sights.

Bielsa’s squad isn’t blessed with experience of this scenario. Barry Douglas helped Wolves to the title 12 months ago, but he’s on the treatment table and out for the season. Adam Forshaw helped guide Middlesbrough over the line in 2015/16 and he’s been discussing the pressures recently.

“The easy thing to say is, ‘Believe’. It is any other game really. We just have to keep doing what we have been doing to this point," he told the club’s official programme, quoted by Leeds Live.

“The more you complicate it, the more it will become complicated. We have to keep doing what has worked well so far. It has been a great season so far and there will be another couple of twists and turns in the last five games, I am sure of that.”

The experience of people like Forshaw is going to be massive. The 27-year-old made 29 league appearances for Boro when they won promotion three years ago, even netting a rare late goal in a 2-1 win over Reading on April 12.

That season it was tight and Forshaw was involved in a real battle – not like when Douglas and Wolves stormed to the title last year. Middlesbrough’s promotion was only confirmed on the final day of the season following a 1-1 draw with Brighton.

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Forshaw wasn’t involved that day, but he was part of the squad and will surely be able to transfer some of those emotions into the race for promotion this season.

Many are waiting for Leeds to ‘bottle it’ this season and slip up under the pressure, but it is so important they don’t. They have the play-offs to fall back on but their record in that lottery is poor and you wouldn’t back them to come out of the other side of the three games.

Forshaw’s experience could be crucial as Leeds look to shake off that unwanted tag.