TOP scorer Chris Wood believes Leeds United need to treat every game like a cup final until the end of the season.

Saturday's 2-0 home defeat to Cardiff followed the last-gasp 2-1 derby loss at Huddersfield and left Leeds fifth in the Championship table, ten points outside the top two.

Now Wood is backing his team to regain the form shown throughout January, when the Whites picked up three league wins out of four, and admitted each match has more riding on it entering the latter stages of the season.

Leeds host Bristol City tonight and Wood said: "We know we have it in us to play like we did against Derby County a few weeks ago.

"Unfortunately you can't play great football in all 46 games of the year and sometimes you have to dog it out. Results just haven't gone our way in the last two weeks – but we will regroup and go again.

"There are 15 massive games to go and we will take each one as it comes, although every game is a cup final now. We need to make sure we are switched on and ready. We know what we have to do."