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Alan Smith

What Pontus Jansson is teaching Brentford before crunch meeting with Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds

Pontus Jansson played a full part in Brentford's training session on Monday and is expected to be passed fit for the crunch clash with his former club Leeds United at Griffin Park tomorrow night.

The Swedish centre back had missed almost a month of action due to a hip injury but returned to training today and showed no ill-effects.

Jansson swapped Elland Road for West London last summer after three years in Yorkshire and head coach Thomas Frank is planning to lean on his captain for advice.

"Yeah of course. I think when you play teams where players played last year or they have a specific knowledge about the style of course we use that in the build-up to the game," the Dane said.

"We use it a lot, especially in the first game [earlier in the season]. So that knowledge was already in our knowledge book about Leeds going into the preparation for this game. Small bits, small bits."

Brentford, who have no other injury worries going into the game, can overtake second-placed Leeds with a win and Frank believes that his team are favourites against Marcelo Bielsa's side on the basis that the visitors have lost four of their past five games.

"Yeah I think that’s clear that of the two teams we definitely have more momentum than Leeds right now," Frank added. "Everybody knows how much I respect Bielsa and his staff and what I think they’ve done to Leeds and how they’ve put them up as a club and as a team."

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