BLACKBURN Rovers have happy memories of recent trips to Elland Road - and Marcus Olsson more so than most.

Rovers are unbeaten in their last three visits to West Yorkshire, a run kicked off by the rarest of sights - Olsson finding the back of the net.

The Swedish full-back was making the 17th appearance of his Rovers career at Elland Road on September 1, 2012, when he ran onto a Morten Gamst Pedersen pass and drove a first-time shot across Paddy Kenny into the back of the net.

On Saturday, Olsson made his 103rd appearance for Rovers.

A lot has changed in three years, but Olsson’s goals for column hasn’t. That effort remains his only strike for the club.

Not that the 27-year-old will agree with that conclusion though. He is adamant his disallowed goal in the 2-0 win over Ipswich earlier this month should have stood.

“It was a while ago,” Olsson said of his only legitimate strike for Rovers so far. “I scored a few weeks ago at home but they said it was offside, I don’t think it was and I’m counting it as a goal. It was a good goal.”

Olsson’s Elland Road goal was the first in a 3-3 draw, with Nuno Gomes and Ruben Rochina netting the others, and only four of the 18 Rovers players involved that day remain at the club.

It was a significant occasion for another reason as well, as Jordan Rhodes made his debut for the club just two days after signing for £8million from Huddersfield Town.

Rhodes has scored 81 times for the club since then, including four in his last three against Leeds, but the pressure remains on his shoulders to provide the goals. Rovers feel their performances have merited more than the two wins they have achieved so far this term, but Olsson knows they have to start taking chances.

“In every game we create a lot of chances, even the game against Burnley we had three clear chances where we could score, that’s where we get punished,” he said.

“That’s the difference, we need to put our chances away.

“A few teams don’t play that well against us but they get a half chance and score and we have three or four clear chances and we don’t score so it’s something we have to be more focused on. You have to put your chances away.

“It feels like we’re more consistent in how we play as a team but we’re not picking up enough points. We deserve more and hopefully we can change that in the next two games.”

Since that 3-3 draw Rovers have won twice in a row at Elland Road. The 3-0 success on April 4 this year was the last time Gary Bowyer’s side won on the road, although Leeds must go back a further month for the last time they tasted victory in front of their own fans - on March 4 against Ipswich.

Olsson and the rest of the Rovers squad will treat this game no differently to any other in the campaign, but it is a trip that the Swedish import relishes.

“It’s a good crowd, a proper English stadium,” he said of Elland Road. “When you go there it’s a good atmosphere, we have good support so it makes it good. When you go away to those kinds of games it feels like a big game.”