Dan Burn has made it clear Newcastle United have no reason to panic after dropping three points against Arsenal.
United lost 2-0 to Arsenal but unlike Newcastle's loss at Aston Villa last month, there was no post-mortem at United's Benton base this week. Instead, after a refresh at the start of the week, United's stars have been back to work with smiles on their faces.
Burn told Chronicle Live: "This was different. With the defeat against Aston Villa we knew we had been well beaten.
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"We got played off the park in that whole game so that was disappointing. Against Arsenal, we know that it was really fine margins, they took their chances when they came up, and we didn't unfortunately."
The 31-year-old centre-back feels that Newcastle's squad aren't naive enough to allow the loss to Arsenal to define what has been a brilliant campaign. United are set for their highest finish in the Premier League for 11 years and will be back in Europe for the first time since 2013.
Burn reflected on the potential impact of the defeat against Mikel Arteta's men and said: "Of course not (it won't define us). We have done very well and things are still in our hands.
"We are three points ahead with a game in hand. So we go to Leeds knowing that it will be a bit different with Sam Allardyce as manager.
"But we know it will be tough from playing against his teams in the past. Leeds are fighting for their lives so we will have to go there to make a good account of themselves."
Newcastle players are under no illusions about the task in hand against Leeds and the hot reception the Magpies will be on the end of.
Burn added: "It'll be a similar situation for us. "When we play at home we feel the crowd behind us and I know from playing there that is the situation with Leeds. I think we have done that in the past. "Everton is an example of that, so hopefully that won't be a major factor for us at Leeds."
