Why Leeds 'need to be studying opponents now'
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We asked for your questions for BBC Sport pundit Nedum Onuoha on your Premier League club.
Richard asked what the hardest parts of adapting to the Premier League are after securing promotion.
In the Championship, the team with the best players will more often than not end up near the top of the league because there is such a disparity.
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In the Premier League, every team has international players and they all have experience of being there. They all keep themselves in top shape, know ways to win, know ways to manage games and get over the line, and they are all coached really well.
The Premier League is now a hotbed for the world's best coaches so the separation between managers is not as big as you find in the Championship.
All established Premier League clubs have expectations and big budgets. The nature of the players, the facilities, the understanding, the belief - it all plays into it.
With Leeds coming back up, I like that they have experienced it not long ago, and had a season when they stayed up. They have had a feel of being an underdog on a week-to-week basis and not being expected to win most matches.
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Outside the Premier League, we sometimes focus on the teams at the top of the league, see how good they are and somewhat disregard the rest.
In the top flight they are the top 20 teams in the country. You do not realise how good every side is until it is your club promoted and playing against them every week.
On paper, the teams in the lower half have better players than the side just promoted with 100 points.
Everyone in the Premier League is good and Leeds need to find a way to get points as quickly as possible.
They also need to be studying opponents now. I guarantee teams will be studying them, and the games they are targeting to get points from will be tougher than they think.
Nedum Onuoha was speaking to BBC Sport's Nat Hayward
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