Following another exciting night of European football on Thursday, it's back to Premiership action on Sunday afternoon - with the visit of Wimbledon.

A series of indifferent results have dragged the Dons into the relegation quagmire over recent weeks. At present, they find themselves in a rather precarious 15th place, looking over their shoulders nervously at teams who are rapidly improving - such as Sheffield Wednesday, Derby and even Bradford.

Over the years, we have never enjoyed traveling to Wimbledon: however, home games are a different matter entirely, with the Dons yet to register a single victory at Elland Road. Last season, they managed to escape with a rare point, following a 2-2 draw. David Hopkin and the long since departed Bruno Ribeiro were the United scorers that afternoon.

On Sunday, we will be looking to avenge the 2-0 defeat at Selhurst Park back in November. More importantly, though, victory would keep us hot on Man United's heels. If Leicester can do us a favour on Saturday, the gap could be as close as one point again by Sunday tea-time.

O'Leary looks set to stick with the team that played so well in midweek. Woodgate and Batty miss the game once more through injury.

We put on a four star show at Elland Road this afternoon - and all this despite the fact that we were a goal down as early as the third minute. However two goals by Eirik Bakke and one each from Hartey and Harry gave us convincing 4-1 victory against Wimbledon.

The Euell goal came as a bolt out of the blue as the Dons really went for it from the first whistle. Much to my embarrassment, it also came about thirty seconds after I'd said to the fans around me that I fancied us to get a few goals. I got a bit of stick for the next 20 minutes but at least had the last laugh. The win keeps us just four points behind Man United and keeps us clear of the chasing pack: Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.

The afternoon's team news was of interest. Bowyer was ruled out following the injury he picked up during the Slavia Prague game, which gave an opportunity to Hopkin, who has made very few appearances of late. Unfortunately, he didn't really make the most of his chance and it is difficult to see David making too many starts for us over the season's run-in.

The opening Wimbledon goal came as a real shocker. As the ball was crossed in from the left, it was headed like a bullet past Martyn by Jason Euell - a player who United were reportedly keen on signing earlier in the week. However, things might have been worse as more uncertainty at the back almost cost us a second goal just moments later, the ball sailing across the face of the United goal. Thankfully, though, none of the Dons' strikers were there to prod the ball into what would have been an empty net.

As the opening minutes passed, though, we started to exert more of an influence on the game. Eirik Bakke - who went on to have probably his best games in a Leeds shirt - saw his shot deflected behind for a corner. Then Hopkin fed Bridges through on goal. Sullivan even appeared to slip but the ex-Sunderland man couldn't take advantage of an excellent opportunity as the keeper smothered the ball.

Minutes later, a superb piece of skill by Harry saw him waltz past three or four Wimbledon defenders on the edge of the area before unleashing a fine low shot on goal. Sullivan somehow managed to get his fingertips to the ball and deflect it behind for a corner. Then, Kewell had another chance. Following a scramble, resulting from a Harte free kick, Kewell twisted to volley at goal but again Sullivan was equal to the task, palming the ball down as his teammates hurriedly got it clear.

With United now dominating play, it looked like an equaliser was imminent - or was it going to be one of those days? Eirik Bakke answered any doubts on 23 minutes, scoring his first Premiership goal of the campaign. Stephen McPhail played a great ball to the Norwegian, who beat Sullivan from 12 yards out with the outside of his right foot.

Just five minutes later, we took a deserved, if slightly fortunate, lead. Hopkin swung a ball into the area which the referee judged to be handled by Cort. Hartey took the resulting penalty sending Sullivan the wrong way.

Then as we continued to pile on the pressure, we went 3-1 up. On 39 minutes, McPhail - who was having another excellent game in midfield - played a delightful low cross into the area, met by Bakke first time and directed past Sullivan. Suddenly a rout looked like it might be on the cards. However, the visitors held firm until half time.

The visitors substituted Cort at half time, causing even more speculation that we might be about to make a bid for him, but we continued to dominate proceedings, playing some great one-touch football. Jason Wilcox went on a dazzling run down the left but his final pass let him down. Bridges made a real mess of a header, following a good cross from Bakke. McPhail's volley went wide, then Wilcox's lob flew over Sullivan's bar.

We continued to play the ball around to feet but the game had suddenly died. There was a strange hush around the stadium as we struggled to put any more of our chances away. Wimbledon, perhaps unsurprisingly, started to enjoy a little more possession but Martyn was rarely troubled. O'Leary made a change on 65 minutes with Smith replacing Bridges, who had had an ineffective match.

As often seems to happen in these circumstances, following a lifeless second half, we had the last laugh on 83 minutes. Kewell sprinted onto Smith's clever reverse pass and towards goal. Then, with both Smith and Hopkin in space to tap the ball home, he went round two defenders to smash the ball into the roof of the net from close range.

Harry and Eirik were substituted with minutes left but both had played their part in another impressive win. Considering the exertions of Thursday, this was a great result and keeps the pressure on you know who. Ferguson continues playing his mind games but we seem to be on another of those unbeaten runs that proved so productive over the first half of the campaign. With big games coming up over the next few weeks against bogey team Leicester, not to mention Chelsea, Villa, Arsenal and Newcastle, we couldn't be reaching peak form at any better time.

United Star Man: Harry Kewell