History suggests Leeds can breathe easypublished at 11:43 BST
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Still need more points for safety – Frake
While Daniel Farke insisted Leeds need more points to ensure safety after the win against Wolves, history suggests the club can feel confident in planning for another season in the top flight.
They would claim an unwanted record were they to go down because no team has ever been relegated after taking 39 or more points from their first 33 games of a 38-game Premier League season.
Victory over Wolves takes them past the current record of Birmingham, who had 38 points at this stage of the 2010-11 season, and were relegated.
In fact, even if Leeds did not claim another point they could consider themselves unfortunate to go down given only six have ever been relegated with 39 points or more in a 38-game season.
Even then it has not happened in the past 14 seasons with Birmingham and Blackpool, who both achieved 39 points, the last teams to go down with as many points as Leeds have already got.
In every season since 2015-16, 36 points would have been enough to survive, so if you go by the stats things are looking very good for Leeds.
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