Christoph Zimmermann and Alex Tettey both learned from their time at Norwich City not to bet against Daniel Farke in a Championship promotion race.

The former Canaries won two promotions to the Premier League under the German, winning the title on both occasions.

With Farke's Leeds United side currently in the top two by a hair's breadth and engaged in a tense tussle with City's fierce rivals Ipswich Town, his compatriot believes they have the best manager they could ask for.

"Right now, if you're in that position, he's the manager you want in charge because he's done it before," Zimmermann said. "He knows what it takes to win promotion.

"He does not panic and turn on the players or start pointing fingers when things don't go right. He will always find an answer.

"I had it for six years, one-and-a-half with Dortmund's reserves and four-and-a-half with Norwich. I'm not going to lie, it's left a mark on my body. The training week is tough, but it does pay off in that we were able to win so many games late on.

"You can never tell towards the end of the game that Leeds are running out of air or they have nothing left in the tank. If it's still a draw, fine, because they can still go the extra yard, still make that extra sprint, still get that cross in or get in the box at the right time.

"Once the players feel that all the hard work and all those long training sessions pay off and get you results, they buy into it. That's what it looks like when I watch Leeds' games."

Tettey says his former boss' pedigree will rub off on the players in the Leeds dressing room, as his influence did when he was at Carrow Road.

"He has done this twice," he continued, speaking to Leeds Live. It's not like he did it in the play-offs; he won the titles both times so he will have all the players' attention and that will help them a lot. It's massive.

"It is a special time of the season where things are being decided. You either make it or don't and you need to have a certain group of players to cope with that.

"In his match day speeches or before a training session, when he mentioned the crunch time, we all knew what that meant.

"We all knew what had to be done so there was no panic from any of us when he mentioned it."