There will have been few clubs to have ever had as bad an Easter Weekend as Leeds have just experienced over the past few days.

After throwing away a 1-0 lead at home to a ten man side Wigan that hadn't won away from since August, Marcelo Bielsa's side travelled to Brentford, where they were promptly beaten 2-0 by a mid table side with nothing but points to play for.

Add to that the fact that their main promotion rivals, Sheffield United, took back to back victories to move three points clear of Leeds with a considerably stronger goal difference in the second automatic promotion spot, and it becomes apparent that just about everything that could have gone wrong for Bielsa and co. this weekend, did.

The Elland Road side have been left with a mountain to climb and just two games to do it in if they are to somehow avoid the lottery of the play-offs, something which is always a daunting task for the team who has just missed on automatic promotion.

Leeds' situation won't be helped in that sense by the fact that they had for so long looked like certainties to be sat in one of those automatic promotion spots when the whistles went on the final days of the season.

Football however, never quite plays out how you expect it to, and that couldn't have been truer than in Leeds' case over the past weekend, and in particular in regards to one of their tormentors in chief at Griffin Park on Monday.

After his defence splitting pass to set Neal Maupay up for Brentford's opener, Sergi Canos then proceeded to rub salt into Leeds' wound with a second half goal of his own to all but end their automatic promotion hopes, and with it, leave any of their fans with particularly good memories wondering what might have been.

Back in 2017, it was reported that Leeds came close to signing Canos on deadline day in the January transfer window with the Spaniard instead choosing to move to Brentford permanently, a move Leeds fans will surely now be wishing they had pulled off.

Not only would signing Canos have prevented him from causing such damage to their promotion hopes on Monday, it would also have given Leeds the creative spark they have been badly lacking in recent weeks.

Had that been the case, defeats suffered against the likes of Birmingham; Wigan and Brentford may have ended as draw or even wins, and then the promotion picture would look all the more nicer for Leeds heading into these final few weeks of the season.

They won't have known it at the time, but missing out on Canos may just have cost Leeds in the biggest way possible.